Friday’s Hot Clicks: Enes Kanter Ate Seven Cheeseburgers, Then Left Practice With an ‘Illness’

Enes Kanter loves his cheat days, maybe a little too much

Knicks big man Enes Kanter will occasionally tweet photos of what he’s eating on his “cheat days.”
Sometimes it’s way too many cheeseburgers.
Cheat Day 🤷♂️😋 pic.twitter.com/XPaYYWgpOz
— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) November 8, 2018
Sometimes it’s a mountain of sweets.
Cheat Day 😋 pic.twitter.com/gtXUoikMPz
— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) November 19, 2018
Kanter’s most recent cheat day was a burger day, which he tweeted about on Wednesday. He settled down in front of a plate of seven burgers, plus a heaping helping of fries, and went to town.
Cheat Day 😋 pic.twitter.com/w5lUI8s6Wl
— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) January 10, 2019
And wouldn’t you know it, Kanter wasn’t feeling great the next day and had to excuse himself from practice.
Enes Kanter not at practice due to illness. He was at the facility today #Knicks
— Chris Iseman (@ChrisIseman) January 10, 2019
It’s entirely possible that something else made Kanter feel sick, but I doubt stuffing himself like that helped. (UPDATE: Yeah, it was the burgers. Look what greeted Kanter at practice on Friday.)
The Knicks put fake burgers in Enes Kanter's locker to clown him for eating way too much and missing practice 😂
— Sports Illustrated (@SInow) January 11, 2019
(via @mariohezonja) pic.twitter.com/G267Vogpaq
Through some internet sleuthing, I was able to determine that the restaurant Kanter went to is Elevation Burger in Rye Brook, New York. Luckily for me, Elevation Burger’s menu includes calorie counts, so we can calculate the extent of Kanter’s gluttony.
He says he has three triple burgers with fried egg, which must have been a custom order. The menu includes a double burger with egg at 890 calories, so let’s say the triple is about 1100 calories. Then he’s got what looks like two “paleo burgers,” which are 505 calories each. It looks like the two other burgers are just a single patty, which clocks in at 330 calories each. And then there’s the fries, 520 calories.
That’s a total of roughly 5,500 calories, nearly three times what the average person is supposed to consume in a day.
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