Royce White on ESPN Outside the Lines, January 22nd

Very little, if any of what the Rockets are about "profit at all costs." For someone as articulate and supposedly as intelligent as him, he is woefully uninformed and illogical in his thinking about certain issues.

 

Meh, will re-watch a Duck Dynasty episode I've probably already seen 10 times.

 

Hearing him talk, he seems really mature and educated compared to many of the NBA players you see out there; Yet ironically, they rarely seem to cause these types of problems. This is what happens when you go to college.

 

He just talks in circles. If he would explicitly say what is going on then we may feel sympathetic. Over the months of his absence all I got out of this is that he wants his doctor do DM job for him

 

I was wondering what happened to AbdulSidiqi...

 

Everything he said in the preview was a regurgitation of his tweets. I shouldn't be surprised, but I was expecting his dialogue to be more revealing of the situation.

 

Intelligence doesn't help him in this case. I've known a lot of guys who were smart but couldn't get their "stuff" together. They'd have a lot of articulate explanations and big plans but at the end of the day couldn't do what was necessary to move forward. That's Royce.

 

soo he wants the rockets to say "we don't know anything about mental health"? hmm this is vague as f. this interview better not be a waste of time full of vague trash. i would love the interviewer to be tough on him

 

This dude is not fit for any type of responsibility. He needs to move on with his life and get off twitter.

 

Royce Karamchand Gandhi...

 

how is he gonna get there? by swimming?
#bewell

 

You know, the really sad part of all this is, Royce White has single-handedly almost completely guaranteed that no NBA franchise will EVER draft a player with his condition. He thinks he is being some kind of crusader for a 'cause', but in reality he is doing so much harm to others who might be in a similar situation, but who might actually want to show up. No team in their right minds will go near someone with those kinds of mental disorders now.

Way to go Royce, good job dude.

 

I can't even stand seeing his face at this point. The audacity of this man. My god.

 

Whats it going to be about? Mental Health in the NBA?...

Royce keeps talking about this is a bigger issue than the D-League... So what issue is it that keeps him from doing his job? Is the Rockets supposed to take a course over Mental Health 101? This is just getting ridiculous...

The Rockets worry more about profits and what's best for the team and the future of the team. Royce White is the one that enter into the NBA, he signed a contract with the Rockets... The Rockets didn't hold a gun to his head and force him to play in the NBA and sign the contract.

The Rockets and the NBA will only support a player so much. The Rockets were the one that went out of their way to scout Royce and drafted him with their 16th pick. Now its his turn and his job to do what the Rockets asked him to do, which is to do what he signed up to do. Its not that difficult. If he feels that the Rockets are not going to meet his demands in the first place, why did he sign the contract then?

The Rockets are paying him to do what is asked of him, to focus on basketball. Its like he expects the Rockets to pay him and do what he wants. It goes both ways. Someone pays you and you do what they asked of you to do. Like any job in America, the employer pays the employee to do the job that the employer wants. If the employee decides that he/she does not want to do the job, then the employee should never signed the contract or agreement in the first place.

There are a lot of harsh comments on Royce's twitter page. But for some of the tweets that keep saying Royce is an inspiration or Royce, you're doing the right thing etc, they don't know what's going on and believes that Royce is fighting for a good cause. If only they truly know the fact behind all of this....

 

^^^^ What mambaJoe said
will rep you just for that sig

 

Another funny thing is, just because he's on an NBA team doesn't mean he's in the NBA. Dude hasn't been near a court or even on it for god sake. At least played a couple of seasons or have a proven career but he has not played a second in the NBA yet. Summer League and Preseason doesn't count Royce!!!

 

What did you tweet him?

 

What was his name on here?

 

One of them was ASidd_1990.

I don't know if he is connected in any way to one of the other problem posters, adeelsiddiqui.

 

OTL usually shows the subject matter for the particular episode and then Bob Levy has 3-4 guests (one of whom will probably have mental health knowledge in this case) who will give their opinions about it.