Kanter released by Romanian authorities after airport detention

Enes Kanter has been released from an airport in Bucharest, Romania, where he was stranded for several hours Saturday after having his passport revoked by the Turkish embassy.

"Today at around 1 p.m. local time, an individual arrived from Frankfurt," said Fabian Badila, a spokesman for the Romanian border police, according to Benjamin Hoffman of the New York Times. "My colleagues established that his travel documents weren't valid, that they had been canceled by his home country, so he wasn't allowed to enter the country.

"At around 5 p.m., he left the airport on a flight to London. While he was at the airport he wasn't detained or locked up, he was allowed to wander around, but he couldn't enter the country."

Kanter has landed in London, and is now working with his representatives toward a return to the United States, according to ESPN's Royce Young.

Young also reports that the NBA worked with the U.S. State Department to facilitate Kanter's continued travel.

Expect to hear plenty more about the whole ordeal from Kanter himself on Sunday.

While he was being held at the airport, Kanter posted a video about the situation on Twitter, explaining that the Turkish government was punishing him for his political stance. The Oklahoma City Thunder center has been a vocal critic of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and a supporter of exiled Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen - who has been branded by the Erdogan government as a terrorist and the architect of last July's attempted coup in Turkey.

In the video, Kanter called Erdogan a "bad, bad man," a "dictator," and "the Hitler of our century."