In addition to being introduced as a Celtic and embracing Boston as his new home, Enes Kanter has had a busy summer criss-crossing the country to conduct basketball camps.
For free.
Kanter, appearing on FoxSports 1's "First Things First" explained that he asked his manager what the record was for the number of camps done by an NBA player in one summer. He was told it was nine.
"I said, let's do something crazy, so we organized 45 free basketball camps," Kanter said. "Some players are charging 300-400 dollars and some people can't afford that. I wanted to go somewhere that an NBA player had never stepped...Everybody goes to New York, L.A., Miami for basketball camps, so we definitely go to like, North Dakota, Idaho, South Dakota."
This past week, he was in Syracuse. He's got a few more to go to reach 45 before training camp at the end of September. One camp in July in Long Island was canceled because of a conflict that stemmed from the Turkish native's well-documented differences with his country's current regime.
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