Chicago Sky owner: ‘Potential threat’ Enes Kanter Freedom banned from games

The WNBA’s Chicago Sky have banned former pro basketball player Enes Kanter Freedom from the team’s arena after he got into an altercation with one of its players over the weekend.

Sky owner Michael Alter told reporters Tuesday that Freedom will not be permitted inside the Wintrust Arena moving forward “unless sometime in the future, he’s able to prove to us to our satisfaction that he is able to abide by our rules without being a potential threat,” according to The Associated Press.

During a game Sunday, Freedom engaged in a verbal altercation with Chicago’s Natasha Cloud, an incident that led him to be ejected from the game.

Freedom has thrust himself into the center of a debate about the WNBA’s eligibility rules by saying he declared for the league’s draft earlier this month.

The former player and others have pressed the association to “define what a woman is,” amid a broader debate national Republicans are having about transgender women playing women’s sports.

There are no transgender or male athletes competing in the WNBA.

Freedom wrote on social media after he was ejected from the game he was tossed for “supporting women.”

“It was pretty clear to us that his purpose of coming here was trying to be provocative and just see how much attention he could get and stir up and create,” Alter said.