Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedom filed a lawsuit on Sept. 3 after he was ejected during a Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) game and banned from future games.
Kanter Freedom sued the Chicago Women’s Basketball Operations, LLC, which operates the Chicago Sky. The Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority and the City of Chicago were also named in the complaint.
The lawsuit alleged that the three entities conspired and acted together to discriminate against Kanter Freedom based on his “verbal and demonstrable expression of viewpoint and gender identity” by wrongfully ejecting him from the Chicago Sky vs. Indiana Fever game on Aug. 23 at Wintrust Arena in Chicago. …