Premise: The Knicks and the NBA has time to assess this situation and determine a solution, but it’s obviously quite dicey. On one hand, Kanter doesn’t own a valid passport and is being charged as a terrorist in his home country of Turkey. On the other hand, Kanter’s biggest crime is speaking freely – specifically against Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has tightened his authoritarian grip on the country by arresting those who don’t fall in line.
Hypothesis: Kanter is under scrutiny