Royce White skips game and practice (UPDATE: White issues statement)

My goodness, Member since 2003 you just made your 1st post! Royce White is bringing people out of the darkness!

 

damn i was really excited to see him play but after reading his tweets smh

 

Not sure which is worse, Royce's irrational response to the situation or some of the posters responses to his behavior...

Still too many people not recognizing, nor acknowledging that mental illness is as legitimate a condition as cancer or any other "visible" condition. Spewing spite and hate at the kid, knowing full well he is reading it and reacting to it is just deplorable.

I keep hearing this old song as I read through this thread.

Easy To Be Hard

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be hard, easy to be cold

How can people have no feelings
How can they ignore their friends
Easy to be proud, easy to say no

Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend, I need a friend

How can people be so heartless
You know I'm hung up on you
Easy to be proud, easy to say no

Especially people who care about strangers
Who care about evil and social injustice
Do you only care about bleeding crowd
How about a needing friend, we all need a friend

How can people be so heartless
How can people be so cruel
Easy to be proud, easy to say no
Easy to be cold, easy to say no
Come, on, easy to give in, easy to say no
Easy to be cold, easy to say no
Much too easy to say no

 

wowowowow

so this has nothing to do with his disorder

"If you don't play me, I'm going to have an anxiety attack and skip practice and games, so you better play me or you are detrimental to my health and not supporting me...."

I'm officially done with this POS self entitled man-child, release him now and I hope he fails with that attitude.

 

Man, can somebody make him get off his twitter? He is making things much more difficult for the Rox management and for himself. The hope to find a solution is diminishing each time he sends out a new tweet.

 

hah. nice catch. that's pretty incredible. I tend to forget my login data in a month if i don't post.

 

where is his agent and family giving him proper guidance?

Does he think threatening to have an anxiety attack will result in playing time?

self-destruction

 

Crazy-town banana pants

 

this is where he'll be probly

 

A lot of ignorance being thrown at Royce. That isn't fair to him.

However, his tweets don't appear as transparent right now.

They appear as callous and disrespectful to his highly paying employers.

 

thats what I said. at some point, SOMEONE (Anyone?) has to tell him to pull the brakes! he is not only sullying his reputation, but losing his anxiety-disorder platform, AND risking his NBA career. At this point its immaturity...my brother has sever anxiety and he doesn't turn to twitter to complain and air his grievances, he's worked it out to where he got married, has kids, and a great job. Just takes perserverance.

Agent, step up! Family, step up! Clutchfans--i think we all have been driven to anxiety with this constant drivel...hopefully it won't impact team chemistry going forward.

 

I have never heard in my life a professional athelete blackmailing for playing time with a health issue. What in the **** is this real life.

Can you imagine Scott Machado saying to the staff, I need playing time or my knee is going to explode and it will be your fault...

 

we're talking about practice? not a game but practice???

 

Lol He can go play for The bobcats and becomes Michael Jordan's new problem or big star

 

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You are right. We should start him and every play should be designed around him getting the rock. He should not practice or go to team meetings. Every night should be royce white bobblehead night with variations of him in different teams. You know 'Hawaiian Royce' and ' Xmas Royce' with santa cap on etc.

 

I really hope he and the rockets can turn this thing around.

 

Why didn't he tell Rockets management about this before his contract was signed? I am mad at him. Release him and move on. Rockets did the right thing and Royce did wrong, period.

 

#crutchcity

I think you just came up with the hashtag for discussing this. I think it would be funny considering his abuse of hashtags. #problems, really is that a trending topic #problems?

 

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The Department’s Civil Rights Center (CRC) enforces the employment-related provisions of Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act. Section 504 covers organizations and entities that receive federal financial assistance from DOL. CRC also enforces Title II of the ADA as that title applies to the labor- and workforce-related practices of state and local governments and other public entities. Finally, CRC enforces Section 188 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA), which bars disability-based discrimination by programs and activities that are part of the One-Stop employment and training system established by WIA Title I. See the Laws & Regulations subtopic for specific information on these laws.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) enforces ADA regulations covering employment.

So, all I am saying is The Rockets orginization might be minding the P's & Q's because Royce has made this such an issue about having a disability. In quotes from both Morey and Les, it appears they are playing this by the book and I have seen this in the various corporation in which I have been a consultant.