Miss a game? Are you serious????? If he had brought these things up BEFORE signing a contract, then I would think nothing of it. But flying sure didn't seem like near as big of an issue when he had to say the right things to get paid. He is a bad teammate at this point. He could have been in McAllen (by plane or bus or scooter).
Someone should tell him to make a decision, make a decision and go all the way. Right now it seems like he dosn't know his priorities, he needs to know what he wants and what his priorities is in his life, if it's his health then get treatment first, if it's basketball then just go all the way and if it dosn't help, get another job. Right now he wants both, it's not gonna happen, it's making hard on his team, his family and himself which he said he was trying to advoid, why can't he see this. You can't have it both ways Royce, well, maybe as a small time player, but not with the big guys, not this way. MAN UP AND CHOOSE. Unless...... he's testing the Rockets? Nah...
nice find, ty. I wonder what the process would've been at that point. On one hand, trying to void the deal would've brought quite a bit of bad press. On the other hand, it's still a lot of money. I suspect he wouldn't have taken it that far, though. this part is interesting too:
Yeah it’s interesting how he considers walking away from the game now that's he's got his guaranteed money. Did it seriously not occur to him before that this might not be the right job for him? And ok, bussing to games when it’s not going to affect his job is one thing…but now he's saying he might not even get on the plane sometimes when it’s absolutely necessary? That’s complete crap to me; it’s like he’s saying it’s ok to let his team down instead of trying his best to overcome this thing. I am really disliking Royce more and more. He seems really selfish and egotistical to me.
Voiding his contract still means a 1st round pick was wasted. Rockets are kind of stuck now. Great way to pay back the organization that "took a chance" on you huh?
i wasn't aware he's on medication, btw. it's absolutely true, but I wonder how that translates in the locker room if he keeps preaching it. I'd imagine no organization wants a player constantly telling his teammates that there are bigger things than basketball and winning.
yeah, and did you see the part where Dennis Bergkamp developed the fair in part due to journalist joking about bomb on plane? sigh I was aware of the near-collision, but not that part.
Don't think he needs to worry about terrorist on a Rockets private flight #SMH Being afraid of flying is like having a fear of kittens #SMH
Morey needs to get out that giant statistics machine the Rockets keep in the basement and show Royce some pertinent stats re: plane vs. car travel.
http://anxieties.com/flying-howsafe.php Dr. Arnold Barnett, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has done extensive research in the field of commercial flight safety. He found that over the fifteen years between 1975 and 1994, the death risk per flight was one in seven million. This statistic is the probability that someone who randomly selected one of the airline's flights over the 19-year study period would be killed in route. That means that any time you board a flight on a major carrier in this country, your chance of being in a fatal accident is one in seven million. It doesn't matter whether you fly once every three years or every day of the year. In fact, based on this incredible safety record, if you did fly every day of your life, probability indicates that it would take you nineteen thousand years before you would succumb to a fatal accident. Nineteen thousand years! Perhaps you have occasionally taken the train for your travels, believing that it would be safer. Think again. Based on train accidents over the past twenty years, your chances of dying on a transcontinental train journey are one in a million. Those are great odds, mind you. But flying coast-to-coast is ten times safer than making the trip by train. How about driving, our typical form of transportation? There are approximately one hundred and thirty people killed daily in auto accidents. That's every day -- yesterday, today and tomorrow. And that's forty-seven thousand killed per year. In 1990, five hundred million airline passengers were transported an average distance of eight hundred miles, through more than seven million takeoffs and landings, in all kinds of weather conditions, with a loss of only thirty-nine lives. During that same year the National Transportation Safety Board's report shows that over forty-six thousand people were killed in auto accidents. A sold-out 727 jet would have to crash every day of the week, with no survivors, to equal the highway deaths per year in this country.
