In some ways, Enes Kanter is a man without a home. Kanter hasn't been to Turkey -- the country where he spent much of his childhood -- in more than two years. He hasn't spoken with his parents, who live there, in more than a year.
The isolation is a result of Kanter's vocal criticisms of the government in his home country.
Kanter is a supporter of Fethullah Gulen, an Islamic cleric based in the United States whom Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused of orchestrating last year's failed coup attempt in Turkey.
According to The New York Times, Erdogan has jailed tens of thousands of people accused of plotting a failed coup.