{"id":259578,"date":"2026-08-26T02:35:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/chicago-sky-ban-enes-kanter-freedom-after-ejection-he-has-the-potential-to-be-a-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T02:35:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:35:31","slug":"chicago-sky-ban-enes-kanter-freedom-after-ejection-he-has-the-potential-to-be-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/chicago-sky-ban-enes-kanter-freedom-after-ejection-he-has-the-potential-to-be-a-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Sky ban Enes Kanter Freedom after ejection: &#8216;He has the potential to be a threat&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nba\/players\/enes_kanter_freedom\/193102\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enes Kanter Freedom<\/a> won\u2019t be stepping into Wintrust Arena for a  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/chicago_sky\/17254\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Sky<\/a> game anytime soon. <\/p>\n<p>Kanter was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/articles\/enes_kanter_freedom_ejected_from_wnba_game_after_heated_confrontation_with_natasha_cloud\/s1_127_44211588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ejected<\/a>  from Sunday\u2019s game against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/teams\/indiana_fever\/17260\" class=\"yard_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiana Fever<\/a> after exchanging words with Sky star Natasha Cloud.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, it was announced that Kanter is now banned from the arena. Sky owner Michael Alter said that Kanter has \u201cunequivocally\u201d shown the \u201cpotential to be a threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here is the official statement from Alter.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c[Kanter Freedom] has demonstrated to us unequivocally that he has the potential to be a threat,\u201d Alter said. \u201cThat he is not able to control himself to the extent where we can be comfortable that he may [not] step towards the court again and towards the players. So that is the basis for which we will not permit him into the building until such time as he can prove otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/wnba\/articles\/chicago_sky_ban_enes_kanter_freedom_after_ejection_he_has_the_potential_to_be_a_threat\/s1_127_44219441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enes Kanter Freedom won\u2019t be stepping into Wintrust Arena for a Chicago Sky game anytime soon. Kanter was ejected from Sunday\u2019s game against the Indiana Fever after exchanging words with Sky star Natasha Cloud.\u00a0 On Tuesday, it was announced that Kanter is now banned from the arena. Sky owner Michael Alter said that Kanter has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-259578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}