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SPORTS Tuesday 23 May 2017

AVERY

DAY

Oklahoma City Thunder
NBA basketball player Enes
Kanter, of Turkey, speaks
about being detained at
Henri Coanda Airport in
Bucharest, Romania, during
a press conference in New
York, Monday, May 22, 2017.
Associated Press
Death threats

may prompt

NBA’s Kanter
to become

U.S. citizen

TIM REYNOLDS
AP Basketball Writer
Oklahoma City center
Enes Kanter said Mon-
day he routinely received
death threats for criticizing
the government of his na-
tive Turkey, and he may
seek an expedited process
toward becoming a U.S.
citizen.
Kanter was detained at an
airport in Romania over the
weekend, with border po-
lice there saying they did
so because Turkish authori-
ties canceled his passport.
Kanter eventually was al-
lowed to leave for London
and then New York, after Celtics rally to beat
he said officials from the
U.S. Department of Home- Cavaliers in Game 3
land Security and others in-
tervened on his behalf.
Kanter held a news confer- Boston Celtics’ Avery Bradley (0) shoots over Cleveland Cav-
ence in New York on Mon- aliers’ Iman Shumpert (4) during the second half of Game 3 of
day and said he was the the NBA basketball Eastern Conference finals, Sunday, May
target of two more death 21, 2017, in Cleveland.
threats earlier in the day. Associated Press
“This is definitely crazy right
now,” he said.
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