There's method to the madness. Royce is just tanking this year to make himself a lock for "Most Improved Player" next year when he becomes the first athlete to overcome mental illness to be a serviceable player.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>EVEN when <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23Mentalillness">#Mentalillness</a> is well managed by sufferers, environments where awareness is low STILL create potential health risks 4 sufferers.</p>— Royce White (@Highway_30) <a href="https://twitter.com/Highway_30/status/269647323179671552" data-datetime="2012-11-17T03:45:06+00:00">November 17, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Does anyone even know what he wants at this point? Does he want to not have to see the Rockets doctor? Is he (like Woj said) suggesting that playing time will help his anxiety? I swear..he tweets and tweets and tweets and still says absolutely nothing.
Basically he wants authority without folks talking bad about him A rookie who wants to be commissioner. It has to be about Basketball reasons.
How much more do White want the Rockets to help him? The Rockets are a professional basketball team, not a mental institute. The Rockets have more things to worry about than to babysit White's mental issues. The Rockets already help him out as much as they can, including scheduling him with a therapist, which he doesn't show up. The Rockets right now have so many better things to deal with than constantly catering to White's maturity issue. Before White let his maturity issue completely take over his mind and leave the NBA, he need to realize that after this, there would be no more opportunities in the NBA. He can take all of this opportunities of being an NBA player for granted all he want but later when he is unable to get back into the league, he will fully regret this. Its not like he can just whine his way out of the NBA and just be able to sign with another NBA team if he wanted. If he leaves, the rest of the NBA will look at him as a problematic player and not sign him. He is a good player, but not good enough where team would deal with all the headache to have him on the roster.
He's never going to shut up. In 500 million years, his voice will finally reach another advanced civilization, and they will mourn the fact we are no longer around to destroy.
Just read the article by Woj in Yahoo Sports as well. Good read. According to Woj, Royce's NBA career has slipped away. Now all he can do is to trying to save it. Rockets already lost the gamble. 16th pick wasted.
I hope Royce reads this....your team is playing without you right now. You keep carrying on about support but you show none. We made a huge mistake on you *****! Get well and get the flip out off Houston!!! Ive seen elephants on NatGeo with smaller vaginas than you.
#16 overall picks, 1997-2011 The question is, "Was Royce White worth the gamble at #16 overall?" I say yes. He was a big time player in college and he projected to be a good NBA player and therefore a major steal at #16 overall. Of course, the reason he was on the board at #16 overall, instead of getting drafted at around #5 overall, is his anxiety disorder. Still, you have to swing for the fences sometimes, and we're only in mid-November of his rookie season, so it's absurd to write this guy off. Just take a look at the previous fifteen #16 overall picks in order to get an idea of how unlikely it is that a team is going to draft a good player at that spot: 2011: Nikola Vucevic 2010: Luke Babbitt 2009: James Johnson 2008: Marreese Speights 2007: Nick Young 2006: Rodney Carney 2005: Joey Graham 2004: Kirk Snyder 2003: Troy Bell 2002: Jiri Welsch 2001: Kirk Haston 2000: Hedo Turkoglu 1999: Ron Artest 1998: Bryce Drew 1997: Brevin Knight So you have one bona fide All-Star (Ron Artest), one very good starter (Hedo Turkoglu), one mediocre starter (Brevin Knight), a few mediocre role players (Nick Young, Marreese Speights, James Johnson), one guy who the verdict is still out on but who may wind up being a mediocre starter (Nikola Vucevic), and the other eight guys on this list (that's over half!) were bench warmers. In other words, it's ridiculous to sit here and bemoan about this being a "wasted pick," because a majority of #16 overall picks wind up being bench warmers. White was and still is a big time talent and could wind up having a career comparable to that of Turkoglu (a late bloomer), which would mean that he winds up being a total home run for a #16 overall pick. Interestingly, he could wind up being a very Turkoglu-esque player, if he can pull through this, and, again, it's absurd to assume less than a month into the guy's rookie season that he absolutely will not and cannot pull through this.
Royce White can sit there and tweet about his mental health issues all he want but all this is getting really old. Sure it was a small issue about the airplane situation but all the other issue is mostly his maturity. In college, he may be able to get away with that because he's the best player on that team but in the NBA, they are paying him millions of dollars to be professional. Now, he has more than enough money to deal with his own mental problems plus the help of the Rockets also. The Rockets are giving him therapist appointments and he is not showing up to that so what else is Houston supposed to do? Go pick him up and drive him to his appointments as well as games and practices? He can think that he's too good of a player that he can always be employ in the NBA. But reality is, he is still an unproven rookie that whether or not his game can translate well into the NBA is still an unknown.
As someone who has been diagnosed with anxiety before, let me be the first to say this: All I read in his quote is "it's everyone else's fault".
