ESPN reporter takes unprompted shot at Enes Kanter Freedom during NBA analysis

ESPN reporter Tim MacMahon took a random shot at Enes Kanter Freedom while breaking down Klay Thompson’s move to the Miami Heat.

MacMahon was breaking down how Thompson fit with the Heat before taking an unprompted jab at Freedom.

"You got to protect (Thompson) defensively now, and instead of being a guy who you can put on the other team’s best perimeter scorer, but the Heat are as desperate for shooting as Enes Kanter is for attention," MacMahon said on a recent episode of ESPN’s "Brain Windhorst & The Hoop Collective." Upon hearing MacMahon’s comment, Windhorst immediately said, "Oh no." However, MacMahon continued his analysis without dwelling on his Freedom comment.

"And so like Klay, on a low-cost, relatively low-cost deal does make sense," MacMahon said.

Freedom has been in the news after he was kicked out of Wintrust Arena on Sunday night after an altercation with Sky player Natasha Cloud during the Indiana Fever-Chicago Sky game.

During the third quarter of the Indiana Fever's 113-90 win over the Sky at Wintrust Arena, Cloud began barking at Freedom, who was sitting courtside.

Freedom then stepped toward the floor and yelled back at Cloud with his arms spread, with security quickly intervening and ushering Freedom out.

Kanter later spoke to OutKick about the incident.

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DOWNLOAD NOW! "Sophie Cunningham shot a three, and I put my hands up to celebrate," Freedom said.

"Literally, a couple possessions later, Natasha came back and started screaming and yelling and said, ‘She’s not gonna sleep with you.’ "And I was like, ‘I am not trying to sleep with her.

I’m just here to protect women and support her.’ And then, obviously, after that she started yapping, and she started to walk towards me, and literally I just got up, and then I was like, ‘I’m just here to protect women, and that’s all.’" Kanter, who recently declared himself eligible for the 2027 WNBA Draft, attended the game wearing a shirt that defined what a woman is, something the league itself has not yet seemed to answer.