Kanter’s Peace Summit Challenge Reignites WNBA Eligibility Gap

Overview

• Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White publicly declared themselves eligible for the 2027 WNBA draft to test Article XIII, and the league has said those bids are not being accepted.
• Kanter was ejected from a Chicago Sky game after a verbal confrontation with Natasha Cloud and was later banned from Wintrust Arena, a move he has threatened to challenge legally.
• On Tuesday, Sept. 1, Kanter proposed a televised “peace summit” to press the league for answers and said Caitlyn Jenner would moderate, a claim that has not been independently verified.
• Veteran broadcaster Jason Page countered Kanter’s proposal by inviting him to defend his position on Sportswrap, sharpening the public spectacle around the policy test.
• League officials and the WNBPA have convened task forces and listening sessions because Article XIII simply says “only players who are women are eligible” without defining who counts as a woman, so any formal rule change would require bargaining and could produce legal and safety consequences.