Welcome to Tuesday. These are the Bolts.
The Ringer looks at Enes Kanter and the NBA’s brand of activism: “I’m not a journalist, I’m a basketball player,” Kanter said Monday. “But right now, my family can’t even go out to eat. My brother told me my dad went to the supermarket and they spit on his face. I try to be the voice of those innocent people.”
Kanter still receives death threats daily and wants US citizenship: “The 25-year-old expressed hope that U.S. authorities could “speed up the process a little bit” of granting him citizenship.