Colin Kaepaernic was a fraud who couldn't play the quarterback position and his cause was garbage. Unarmed black men have a better chance of being killed by lightning then dying from police actions. Less than 20 unarmed black men are killed by police every year, and they are almost all violently resisting arrest. Given the per capita participation rate of black men in violent crimes in the US, that number is very low and Kaepernick's so called cause was bullshit.
Kaepernick was horrible his last 2 years in the league, and backups can't be distractions.
Enes Freedom's cause is a strong cause. China has over 2.5 million Uighur Muslims in concentration camps. China also has men sleeping in the women's homes where the men have been incarcerated for bullshit reasons like they got a passport.
Freedom came out publicly and said the NBA threatened him over wearing shoes at NBA games to raise awareness about the genocide the CCP has been engaging in for years. China is clearly trying to ethnically cleans this part of the country's population.
Freedom was threatened and is clearly being blackballed. Freedom's contract is just for 1.6 million a year, which is nothing, and he's a far better player than many of the backup centers in the league. Philadelphia for example just traded Drummond and they need a backup center. Freedom is also not a distraction, he's raising awareness about genocide. China's human rights record in Tibet, Hong Kong, and many other areas, is atrocious as well.
The political and media establishment had nothing to say about China atrocious human rights record for decades before Trump became president, and many in the establishment get enormous amounts of money from companies that do a lot of business in China. They are bought off.
This is the height of hypocrisy.