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He called Chinese President Xi Jinping a "brutal dictator" in the text when he posted the video and wore a shirt with the image of the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader. He followed that by wearing shoes designed by Badiucao, a dissident China-born cartoonist and artist based in Australia. Thursday, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said that Kanter was "trying to get attention" and that his remarks "were not worth refuting.

The Washington, D. In a two minutes video message he summed up the existential threat faced by the Tibetans under Chinese communist rule. Every word that he said is true. The statement also noted that Kanter's "courageous act" of advocating on behalf of Tibetan independence came "at the huge risk to his personal life and career.

Friday, Kanter released another online video calling on the Chinese government to "free the Uyghur people. Thursday, 43 countries signed a United Nations statement expressing concern to China over its treatment of the Uyghurs. Previous replays are no longer available, and upcoming games are not set to be shown.

Games involving the Philadelphia 76ers are also not streamed in China, two years after then- Houston Rockets executive Daryl Morey, now the Sixers' president of basketball operations, tweeted his support for the democracy movement in Chinese-ruled Hong Kong ahead of NBA preseason games in the country.

A Celtics fan page on Weibo, the Chinese version of Twitter that is wildly popular, said it would stop posting about the team in light of the Kanter comments. Kanter also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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