On the one hand, it’s been said that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. But on the other hand, Great Googly Moogly.

On Friday afternoon, former Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter Freedom made an announcement the likes of which many of us have been anticipating for years: He declared himself eligible for the WNBA draft. As Kanter himself put it in an X post:

After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines,
I’m officially declaring myself a @WNBA prospect.

If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.

My team and I have… pic.twitter.com/msncUZUT1J

— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) August 7, 2026

After careful consideration and reviewing the current eligibility guidelines, I’m officially declaring myself a WNBA prospect. If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA.

My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA’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 WNBA draft in May 2027.

I am definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or disrespect 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 WNBA 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 #WNBA honoring its stated principles. See you at training camp.

Kanter’s staging was superb. Right down to the orange WNBA sweatshirt and ball cap, he set things up just as a five-star schoolboy would before declaring which college team he’d be blessing with his services. Kanter is an American patriot and a showman, and although he said he’s “definitely not here to mock, make fun of, or disrespect any community or personal choices,” we all know that’s exactly what he was doing. And good for him. It’s about time.

Soon after Kanter’s announcement, another former NBAer, Royce White, made clear his intentions to do the same.

We’re reaching critical mass here, and the WNBA knows it. So the league’s leaders are in discussions to determine if they can figure out what a woman is — indeed, if they can figure out what the “W” in “WNBA” stands for.

As OutKick’s Clay Travis quipped, “After two former first round NBA draft picks declared for [the] WNBA draft, the WNBA’s commissioner says the league will be meeting to review what a woman is for purposes of league eligibility. These meetings need to be streamed live. That’s must see TV.”

I agree. Still, some of these gender-bending dead-enders are sticking to their guns. Here’s what the WNBA’s Stephanie White said when asked by a reporter about her personal stance on “athletes who tested biological male” competing in women’s sports: “Yeah, I mean, uh, uh, I’m, I don’t know that I would say that I’m educated enough from a scientific standpoint. Uh, I don’t ever believe that exclusion is an answer. I just don’t. Um, I, I do think, um, you know, when we think about various levels of sport, um, various governing bodies of sport, and things that go into that, like I said, I’m not ed-, I’m not educated enough at the different levels. Um, I know growing up I played with the boys all the time.”

I don’t doubt that she “played with the boys all the time” when she was growing up, but nor do I doubt that at some point — a point that coincided exactly with the point at which those boys started going through puberty and getting their big-boy muscles — she started getting her butt kicked by those same boys. But bless her heart.

After wading through this cowardly and incoherent dodge, the intrepid reporter followed up, “So would you welcome a biological male in the WNBA?”

White: “Uh, I, I, again, it’s like, I, I don’t know, when we talk about biological male and scientifically where we are, I think it’s a totally different scenario. Um, you know, as I said, I’m not educated enough in, in terms of, of, trans-, transgender and transitioning, um, to give you … to give you a smart answer. Um, I would say, though, that I just don’t feel like exclusion is an answer, and I think that we had — we need to have deeper, more layered conversations.”

Got that? All we need is “more layered conversations.”

Back in 2021, during a rant against the gutlessness of the NCAA for its unwillingness to protect women’s collegiate swimming from the predations of a biological man named Will, er, Lia Thomas, I suggested that the way out of this mess was mockery:

And now, I must confess: I’m actually rooting for Lia Thomas. I’m actually hoping he continues to crush the aquatic dreams of brilliant, well-to-do Ivy League girls, but only to elevate and thereby expose the utter preposterousness of the Left’s position on men competing against women in sports. Yes, I want Lia Thomas to shatter every collegiate women’s swimming record he can, because the more resounding his triumphs, the more difficult they become to ignore.

Kanter, a 6-foot 10-inch, 250-pound former first-round NBA draft pick, is just the type of athlete we need to disabuse the Left of its bizarre belief that there’s no difference between men and women. So long as no one gets hurt, nothing would warm my heart more than seeing Kanter go for 50 points, 30 rebounds, and 10 blocked shots in his first WNBA game — especially given that his career NBA stats were so modest by comparison: 11.2 points, 7.8 rebounds, and 0.5 blocks per game.

At some point after that, the pressure on the WNBA to admit what’s been obvious to all but cultural Marxists for all of human history: that men are biologically bigger, stronger, and faster than women.

Said no less a warrior for women’s sports than Riley Gaines upon hearing of Kanter’s intentions: “Genius. Perfect. Waiting to see which WNBA team recruits Enes Freedom.”

It’s been a rocky road of late for the WNBA. But I actually think this story is bigger than just Enes Kanter Freedom exposing the league’s untenable position, and bigger than the aforementioned Clay Travis’s brilliant $10 million bet to pit the WNBA champs against a team of high-school boys. No, this is also about the WNBA’s tendency toward self-destruction. After all, it’s a league chock-full of black lesbians, and they’ve all but declared war on their white heterosexual stars.

This Kanter play is strong chemotherapy. For the sake of the women’s game, let’s hope it doesn’t kill the patient.