'Cultural genocide': Celtics banned in China after player calls out oppression of Tibet

Boston Celtics basketball games disappeared from the Chinese internet following Celtics player Enes Kanter’s denunciation of the Chinese Communist Party’s suppression of Tibet.

Kanter posted a video to social media Wednesday in which he slammed “brutal dictator of China Xi Jinping” and his “henchmen” for “erasing Tibetan identity and culture.” Tencent, the National Basketball Association’s Chinese distributor, marked Celtics games as unavailable to watch and indicated that future games would not be livestreamed Thursday, according to reports from the New York Times.