ENES KANTER FREEDOM: I know the price of silence and won't stop defending women's sports

For most of my life, basketball has been at the center of everything I do.

I played 11 seasons in the NBA. I competed against some of the greatest athletes in the world. I know what it takes to reach the highest level of the game—the years of training, the sacrifices, the injuries.

But I didn’t become the player I was in front of thousands of people under the bright lights of an NBA arena.

I became that player in the hours no one saw.

FORMER NBA FIRST ROUND PICK ENES KANTER...