The Breakfast Club - DONKEY: Enes Kanter Freedom Ejected From WNBA Game After Confrontation With Natasha Cloud

Episode Date: August 24, 2026

Charlamagne The God Gives Donkey of The Day to Enes Kanter Freedom Who Was Ejected From WNBA Game After Confrontation With Natasha Cloud. Listen for more. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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I'm obsessed. I'm obsessed. Listen to pro society on the Iheart radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's time for don't give the day. There's a bunch of donkeys out here.

It really caught me off guard. We live a life where we bite our tongue based off who we may offend. We never would say anything. Tomlin, give it to him. Give it to him. You are a donkey. That is why Shalaman is here.

Some donkey today's just saw themselves. On the Breakfast Club. Okay, Shalame, who are you giving donkey of the day to today? Well, Donkey Today, for Monday, August 24th, goes the former NBA player, Enis Cantor Freedom. Oh, what a sucker he is. Okay, if you haven't heard, yesterday, Enos Canter Freedom got escorted out of the Chicago Sky, Indiana Fever game after getting into a verbal confrontation with Chicago

Chicago Sky Guard, Natasha Cloud. Dropping a clues bond from Natasha Cloud. If you haven't heard, Enis recently announced that he identifies as a woman. and intended to enter the 2027 WNBA draft. Can we hear that part? Right. After careful consideration and review in the current eligibility guidelines, I am officially declaring myself a WMBA prospect. If simply declaring who you are is all that's required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WMBA. My team and I have carefully examined the WMB's eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion.

Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WMBA draft in May 27. I am definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or do suspect any community or personal choices. I am simply asking that the current rules be applied equally to everyone. The rules that represent the very values many WMBA players and coaches have publicly advocated for. My team and I are prepared to ensure these guidelines are applied equally, consistently, and without exception. And I look forward to the WMBA honoring its stated principles. So yesterday he was sitting court side at the game, trolling, okay, the women playing, mocking the women playing,

wearing a shirt that said women, noun, adult, human, female. Natasha Cloud apparently saw the shirt, had some words for Ennis. Ennis had some words back, and during the exchange, Ennis got up and briefly stepped on to the court before security intervened. and eventually escorted him out of the building. Do we have some audio from that? Yeah, go to CNN for the report, please.

NBA Center Ennis Canter Freedom was ejected from a WMBA game between the Indiana fever and the Chicago Sky after a confrontation with a player. Freedom was on the sidelines wearing a shirt that said, quote, woman noun, adult human female. Skyguard, Natasha Cloud, confronted Freedom late into the third quarter and he was then escorted from the arena. Freedom had a conversation with a group of police officers

before leaving the stadium. Freedom had previously declared himself eligible for the WMBA this month, saying he identifies as a woman in a criticism of WMBA's eligibility criteria. Now, before anybody starts screaming about politics, transgender rights, women's rights, whatever side of the culture war,

you woke up ready to fight for on this Monday morning, understand something. I'm not giving in his canter freedom donkey today because he believes biological males shouldn't compete against biological females in women's sports. I agree with you.

them on that. Okay, that's not even a debate for me. And I just think it's pointless to argue when you know it's only being used as a distraction because the midterms are right around the corner and Republicans can't win on policy. So they would rather drag people into another stupid cultural to debate so they can claim to be the party of common sense and dims the party of people who don't know if men can have babies or not. Okay? I'm giving in his don't donkey today because this guy has somehow decided that the best way to protect women's basketball is to disrupt women's basketball. Okay, you and us have become what you claim to hate

because I haven't seen anyone threaten women's basketball more than you. Okay, do you think those women felt safe with your big 16 ass out there trolling them and then had the nerve to stand up and act like you was about to step to one of them? Make that make sense to me. Okay, see, Ennis isn't just expressing an opinion anymore. This man declared himself eligible for the 2007 WMBA draft saying he identifies as a woman as part of his protest against the league. transgender eligibility rules.

Meanwhile, in the WNBA, there are currently no immediate eligibility matters affecting their league. Okay, basically ain't no transgender women trying to take your job in the WNBA right now. That is not happening, okay? No transgendas are out here, like, let me suit up. So people like Ennis are protesting a hypothetical.

There are no biological males playing in the WNBA that we know of. Okay? There are no biological males trying to play. to play in the WNBA except for you. So therefore, Ennis, you are actually the problem. But what you're protesting is a hypothetical. Innes, you have called 911 screaming about a five alarm fire that isn't happening. Okay.

And that's what is fake. Doing anything for attention. Activism turns into something else because there's a difference between raising awareness about something you believe could become a problem and manufacturing a spectacle around a hypothetical problem because the spectacle gets a. you attention. Okay, and it's all you are doing is performance art and I need you to get off the stage because your show sucks. All right, first you declare yourself a woman, then you declare for the WNBA draft, then you start talking about recruiting other men to declare

for the WNBA draft, then you show up courtside at a WNBA game wearing a shirt you know is going to provoke a reaction, then you get into an argument with an actual WNBA player during the game, take a step towards the court like you was going to do something to those ladies and then you get escorted out? There should be a like, there should be a like, should be a lifetime ban of all WNBA games issued today by Kathy Engelbert for Ennis. But she won't because she doesn't do many things that make sense. Okay, she's actually a trans commissioner because she identifies as a commissioner, but clearly that's not what she was born to do. Then Ennis had the nerve to say he got kicked out for supporting women.

No, sir, you didn't get removed simply because you believe something you got kicked out for intentionally disrupting a woman's basketball game. They didn't kick you out for your beliefs. They kicked you out after your protests turned into a confrontation. Those are not the same things. Okay, and this can of freedom of all people should understand that because freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences. I tell you all that all the time. Freedom means you're allowed to wear the shirt, but freedom also means Natasha Clyde is allowed to tell you exactly what she thinks about the shirt. Freedom means the WNBA is allowed to disagree with you.

And freedom means arena security can tell your six foot 10 ass, sir, we're going to need you to leave because you don't know how to. freaking act. All right. Freedom doesn't mean everybody have to tolerate whatever you decide to do. And here's the part that really bothers me.

Ennis Cantor Freedom has actually demonstrated real courage in his life. Okay, this is a man who's spoken publicly against authoritarian governments. He's criticized the Turkish president. He's spoken about human rights abuses.

He's dealt with consequences involving his ability to travel. Okay. And his relationship with his home country. So Ennis knows what actual political repression looks like, which means he should damn

sure know the difference between government persecution and arena security. All right. Everything that happens to you, okay, because everything that happens to you often happens just happen because somebody doesn't like you, okay? It happens because what you're doing is just wrong, all right? And sometimes you're just getting put out because your so-called activism becomes more about you than the people you're supposedly advocating for, all right? You've lost the plot, all right?

He says he's doing all this because he wants to protect women. Yeah, so you go into a space built around women, a league played by women, a workplace where women are doing their jobs, and you create a situation where one of the women playing basketball ends up arguing with you. And now the headline coming out of the game isn't about the women's basketball game. It's about you in its canter freedom. Okay, how did protecting women become making yourself the main character in women's spaces? That's what I don't understand. All right, you don't protect women's spaces by walking into women's spaces and making, the whole damn space about you.

Okay. Please give in his canter freedom to Biggesty-Haw. If you have to manufacture the crisis you're warning everybody about, okay, if your activism requires you to manufacture the very crisis you claim to be fighting against, then you're not raising awareness to a problem. You actually are the problem.

Yeah, he's stupid. He's the problem. Don, that's dumb. Now, what y'all want to talk about? Y'all was talking about something earlier. Parents. Yeah, parents. And whether or not you are responsible or obligated, you know, to take care of them after having a tumultuous upbringing.

Because of them or, you know, dysfunction and toxicity in the household. And where did this come from? It was something in front page news, right? Lauren. What did you get the story from, Lauren? I just seen the conversation online. I think I saw the Jasmine brand posted actually. Yeah, but I feel like Mimi, did we?

I feel like somebody talked about something today that kind of went into it. I don't know. And say it again now, it's the, are you obligated to take care of your parents? What? Yeah, like just in general, whether it's, you know. After you had a bad upbringing. Yeah, bad relationship with them. Yeah, if they're the reason for, you know, the toxic environment or the toxic

tricks that you have, abuse, mental abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, whatever. Because they're your parents. Are you still obligated to take care of them when they can't do for themselves? Okay. So that's the question. 1-800-585-105-1. Are you obligated to take care of your parents if your upbringing wasn't the best?

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If your bookshelf and your for you page are equally important to your personality, welcome home. Pro Society is a weekly podcast that's part book club, part group chat for anyone who thinks pride and prejudice and love island deserve the same level of discourse. Each week, we're connecting the dots between books, the internet, and pop culture with your favorite writers, book talk creators, and plenty of overthought opinions. Yeah, I'm obsessed. Listen to pro society on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. On the new podcast Solita, we share the messy reality of traveling alone as a woman. I can wait four hours for the next bus or this random dude is offering me a ride on his motorcycle. I chose option B.

I'm Julie Pinero and I travel by myself because it's a rare space where I can say yes without asking anyone else first. I'm on a mission to reclaim the word Solita, trading the pity for possibility. Listen to Solita on the IHeart Radio app. Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, this is Hayes Davenport. And Sean Clements. We host the podcast, Hollywood Handbook. Each week, we talk to someone in show business

and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. Everyone has a good time and no one gets mad at their publicists for letting them do our show. We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman, Adam Scott, Danny McBride, Ben Stillard, and a lot of other big shots that wouldn't be where they are without us. Listen to Hollywood Handbook on the IHeartRadio app,

Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed human.