Enes Kanter Freedom has a new story from the 2020 NBA bubble, and it’s not about basketball. According to TalkBasket, the former Boston Celtics center claims some of his teammates shared a password that gave them free access to OnlyFans content while the league was locked down in Orlando.
A code on a piece of paper
Kanter Freedom told the story in an interview with Clay Travis. According to Basketball Network‘s Yagya Bhargava, he said players wrote the code on a piece of paper and passed it around the team.
“So you can literally just go on and watch any OnlyFans model you want for free,” he said.
When someone handed it to him, he said he asked what it was, got an explanation and passed. “I’m like, ‘I’m good. I don’t want it. This is just nasty,'” he said, per Basketball Network.
“I have better morals”
He didn’t hold back on how he felt about it. According to HITC‘s Aikansh Chaudhary, Kanter Freedom called the whole thing “disgusting” and said he was glad he didn’t take part.
“I don’t want to watch someone’s daughter, someone’s whatever just getting naked,” he said. “And I just wouldn’t do it, I have better morals.”
He also tried to keep the story narrow. “This happened with the Celtics,” he said, adding, “So this is not the NBA. I don’t know who did that.”
No names, no proof
That last part matters. TalkBasket reported that Kanter Freedom said he didn’t know who originally got the password or how the access worked, and he didn’t name any of the Celtics players supposedly involved. Basketball Network added that he didn’t say which teammate showed him the code or how many players actually used it.
So for now, this is one former player’s memory of a locker room moment six years ago. The code itself hasn’t been shown, and neither TalkBasket nor HITC reported a response from the Celtics or OnlyFans.
The bubble backdrop
The setting helps explain why the story is getting traction. TalkBasket noted the Celtics were one of the 22 teams invited to the Orlando bubble in July 2020, when the NBA restarted its 2019-20 season after shutting down in March. Players lived in a restricted setup at Walt Disney World for the rest of the season.
Boston went 48-24 that year, beat the Toronto Raptors in a seven-game second-round series and then lost to the Miami Heat in six games in the Eastern Conference finals. Kanter Freedom played 58 regular-season games for the Celtics, averaging 8.1 points and 7.4 rebounds.
According to Basketball Network, Travis even joked during the interview that the players using the password generally stayed alone in their hotel rooms.
Why creators should care
Strip away the locker room gossip and the claim lands on something creators deal with all the time: people trying to get paid content without paying for it. A subscription is how a creator gets compensated for each fan who watches. If a single login really was handed around a pro team, that’s a whole roster of viewers who never showed up in anyone’s earnings.
It also shows how mainstream OnlyFans has become. A story about a fan site is now an NBA talking point, still being retold by sports outlets a week after the interview first made the rounds.
The takeaway
Kanter Freedom’s claim is unverified, light on detail and names nobody, so it’s best read as an anecdote, not an exposé. Still, if it happened the way he tells it, some pro athletes wanted OnlyFans badly enough to pass a code around on paper, and the bigger question is whether the creators behind that content ever saw a dime.
Image: Enes Kanter in 2019, by Frenchieinportland, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
