Royce White refuses assignment to D-League (UPDATE: Rockets suspend him)

If I were the Rockets, I would assign armed guards to the practice facility and to the Toyota Center. There is a very high chance of White going "postal".

Best bet is to have a Rocket's employee constantly shadow White and pop him if White shows that he becomes a danger to others.

 

It is hard to help someone who will not try to help themselves.

 

shoplifting is minor

compared to rape and physical assaulting fans... carrying guns drugs..

speeding and dangerous driving and killing someone and you can still play nba like JR smith

sporting fans will forgive you for murder/crimes if you are good at sports...

come fans are selfish... hypocrites...as long as you play well

 

Damnit Morey, cut your losses.

 

I have avoided all these threads but all I can say is F this guy. Worthless trash that doesn't deserve conversation.


Butthurt because he isn't getting pt so he uses his "disease" as a crutch.

 

i told you guys they wont release him

they have all year for white to be ready...

they dont need the roster spot you can only play 13....and they are stacked at pf

 

should he listen to fans who called for Morris to be cut ? or smith ?

 

PEACE OUT

 

Is Royce getting paid? I hope he is not actually drawing a paycheck with his attitude.

 

Some perspective guys...

Players Who Had Trouble With the Law

12. Sam Cassell. Tie with Gary Payton and Jason Caffey. All three teammates were arrested in Toronto, Canada for assaulting a male stripper and his female stripper fiancee in the parking lot of a nightclub. A judge acquitted them in 2007.

11. Cliff Robinson. Although we handle the other Trailblazers further down the list, Cliff “Uncle Spliffy” Robinson deserves his own spot here. With many MJ citations in his career, Robinson started his rap sheet off with a bang by assaulting the officer giving him a tickets with a hit so hard to the head, it sent her to the hospital for treatment.

10. Chris Anderson. Back with the Denver Nuggets, Chris “Birdman” Anderson was kicked out of the league for two years from 2006-2008 for violating the league’s anti-drug policy. The story has a silver lining as Anderson made his way back into the league and is apparently clean.

9. Carmelo Anthony. The Denver Nugget star has lived up to his on-court nickname of “Melo” when he’s off the court as well. Melo has been picked up for mar1juana possession twice, the first time when it was in his backpack going through airport security.

8. Portland Jailblazers. OK, so none of these players was ever really “great” but if you combined them all, they’d be pretty darn good. A mid-90s team that played together way too long, the Jailblazers were way ahead of their time. They went green long before it was popular. No, they didn’t buy a Prius–they smoked the green. All of these players on that team were arrested (not together!) at one time or another for MJ possession: Damon Stoudamire, Rasheed Wallace, Isaiah Rider, Darius Miles, and Qyntel Deon Woods. There were others with other crimes but that is enough…yeah, athletes turned criminals almost spawned from this team.

7. Charles Barkley. The “Round Mound of Rebound” had an All Star career in his time in the league. He also had plenty of controversy: once he spit on a fan and twice he was arrested for assault in fights off the court. The second time was especially dramatic as he threw a guy through a plate glass window in a bar. He also pleaded guilty in March 2009 to running a red light and driving under the influence.

6. Ruben Patterson. Yet another former Trailblazer who deserved his own entry. Ruben lived out every male’s fantasy with his kid’s babysitter one night: the only problem was that she was forced by Patterson, a crime for which he was convicted. He also racked up an assault charge in Cleveland. He was twice arrested for felony domestic abuse just to round out his crime sheet.

5. Ron Artest. The rap on Artest is that he is a two way player on the floor. Well, of the floor, he is also very versatile with three different crimes. First, Ronny did his best Rick James impression and hit then locked his wife up. Next, he got into the infamous brawl where he went into the stands and assaulted a fan (banned for 1 year). Last, Ronny pulled a page from the Vick playbook and got some animal negligence in Sacramento.

4. Chris Webber. C-Webb used to drive the lane as one of the game’s better power forwards but when cops pulled him over for driving in every lane of the freeway in Maryland he did not like it. So he assaulted them and refused to take any test for influence. The police found weed in his car and he was convicted of driving under the influence. C-Webb was also convicted of contempt of court when he lied to the grand jury about accepting illegal payments at Michigan when he was in college–these are major crimes. Well, C-Webb had to pick up trash for 300 hours, does that seem right?

3. Dennis Rodman. Known in the league for an attempted suicide, crazy hair colors and cross-dressing, Dennis “The Worm” has not slowed down off the court. Visiting rehab hotels frequently for drugs, twice since his retirement he has been arrested and convicted for spousal battery.

2. Allen Iverson. AI had so many run-ins with the law that we’ll only hit the highlights here. The most notable was once after a fight with his wife, she left their house to get away. AI used his speed to rack up 14 law offenses as he searched for her with his gun. Although, he was accused of 12 felonies, the testimony in court did not hold up and Iverson was set free. Since then he’s had a few more pot busts and assaults just to keep things interesting.

1. Shawn Kemp. The “rain man” from Seattle lead his team twice to the NBA Finals only to lose to Jordan’s Bulls. After that season, a relatively young Kemp started to plump up and jumping became more and more difficult. It turned out that he had been battling drug addiction for a long time and was soon arrested with cocaine, 50 grams of the green stuff and, just for fun, some semiautomatic weapons. This began a quick downhill spiral that whisked him out of the league and into jail cells across the country, nearer his seven or more children.

 

Ugh! I really really want to root for and support this kid but he does make it awfully hard to do so...

 

They can sure as hell suspend him without pay

 

What baffles me the most is that Royce White knows at least about two things when declaring to enter the 2012 NBA Draft:

(1) He has a specific illness that could prevent him from traveling on the plane.
(2) He, as EVERYONE else, knows playing in the NBA, or all the professional sports for that matter, requires traveling a lot.

Putting the two together, how does that make sense?

"Yeah, I would like to play in the NBA, but don't want/not being able to play road games. I prefer playing home games only, just like Phil Jackson." Is it his expectation for his "NBA career"?

Don't get me wrong. I have personal experience with similar mental illness. That can be REALLY HARD to deal with. But you've signed a NBA contract. You have to honor that, either by playing NBA/NBDL games, attending training camp, shoot around, or receiving treatment required by your team. You're paid millions of dollars to do those things. ACCEPT IT, OR DON'T PUT YOUR NAME ON THAT CONTRACT.

That announcement (having aerophobia) before the draft now seems to be caveat emptor - don't blame it on me if it doesn't pan out.

His quote, dating back to October, "I just stay goal-oriented. I want to be a good teammate, and I want to be a part of this organization. I have other goals and aspirations and I just stick to those, focus on those. I'm just ready to do whatever they ask me to do."

It obviously doesn't look that way.

 

But They all showed up for work! #youneedsomeperspective

 

You misunderstand people's disgust. This is about Royce White's behavior and the disappointment people wanted to be his fans feel in him.

Jason Kidd beating his wife, Sean Kemp fathering children he can't/won't support, or Leonard Little killing someone does not change the fact that White is purposefully trying to hurt the Rockets while taking their money and not doing his job.

We all know White could do worse. What he has done, though, is bad enough.

 

Who cares about Royce White? I hope the org just lets him sit around. We have other good prospects at the same positions and with similar attributes (albeit different skillsets).

I hope that some team in the 20's decides to deal there first rounder for him in the upcoming draft.

 

Apparently this isn't to do with his traveling issues any longer.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Traveling conditions have long been settled. Non-medical professionals making decisions in medical situations just isn't sensible. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23Truth">#Truth</a></p>&mdash; Royce White (@Highway_30) <a href="https://twitter.com/Highway_30/status/285557065643065344" data-datetime="2012-12-31T01:24:44+00:00">December 31, 2012</a></blockquote>
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come on man the way he's acting now is just demented and disturbing. he is such a rotten human being. morris and smith paid their dues already and generally kept their mouths shut. will this guy ever play for the d-league..****ing ridiculous.

 

cool!

 

If I were Les, Royce would get on board with #teamprotocal or I would dedicate 1 roster spot to making sure he never saw a basketball court. And I would not issue any checks for missed work!