He could have modified his final identify to Freedom final month after formally turning into a US citizen.
However Enes Kanter Freedom now has his coronary heart locked down with a burger queen.
The 29-year-old Boston Celtics middle is now courting mannequin Emily Sears, who's greatest identified for her Carl's Jr. promoting marketing campaign.
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Enes and the 36-year-old Australian mannequin made it Instagram official on Wednesday as Emily shared snap of them cuddled up collectively.
The blonde stunner captioned the picture to her 4.6million followers: 'Bravest particular person I do know @enesfreedom.'
Emily has been seen supporting the Turkish-born participant at his video games in current months.
In keeping with sources for TMZ, the 2 have been courting for a few months although it stays unclear how they met.
Emily resides in LA whereas Enes presently performs in Boston, however they're making an extended distance relationship, as an insider informed the publication there was no difficulty to date.
The basketball participant not too long ago made waves final month when he took his US citizenship oath and can marked the event by legally altering his identify to Enes Kanter Freedom.
He not too long ago made headlines by attacking Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James for his enterprise ties to Nike and, by extension, China - a rustic accused of focusing on its minority Uighur inhabitants and forcing residents into slave labor camps.
In Turkey, Kanter has been thought-about an enemy of the state since 2017, when he criticized president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan because the 'Hitler of our century.' In response, the nation revoked his passport, imprisoned his father on terrorism fees for 2 years, and, via Interpol, tried to rearrange for the youthful Kanter's arrest.
'That is the one factor, my complete life, I attempt to battle for,' Kanter informed CNN in an interview final month. 'Once I got here to America, to me, it was so wonderful as a result of, right here, there may be freedom of speech, freedom of faith, freedom of expression, and freedom of press, which I did not have any of these with Turkey.
'And freedom is the best factor a human being can have. In order that's why I wished to make that phrase part of me and carry it wherever I am going.'
Again in June 2020, Emily revealed on Instagram that she'd undergone mind surgical procedure to take away a 'cluster of irregular blood vessels' that had prompted her to endure epileptic seizures.
The influencer selected to have the operation as a result of she didn't need to dwell on 'medicine for the remainder of my life'.
She was truly awake and chatting with medical doctors throughout the operation as a result of she wanted to alert them in the event that they eliminated any very important tissue together with the blood vessels.
Emily defined: 'I keep in mind each second of being awake, there have been two surgeons and one waved at me... it was as unusual and surreal because it sounds!'
After the profitable surgical procedure, she was left with an awesome feeling of gratitude.
'I'm humbly grateful for the flexibility to entry healthcare, for the truth that my situation had a remedy and for the assist of my buddies, household, trade friends and for my unbelievable man who has caught by me the entire time,' she wrote.
