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

Protocol

Someone needs to remind RW that Protocol #1 is play for pay (this is not the college game or high school). All other mental health protocols -> refer to protocol #1. He's not the GM or ADA lawyer. He should do some due diligence and study up on what he can or cannot do before trying to rewrite his contract after he signed it.

 

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Anxiety and panic disorders are not something a normal person will understand. So be more understanding to RW or in that matter anyone who have to deal with the disorders. Saying that, the tough schedule and demand of a NBA player may not be something a person with such disorder can handle. Going to D league may actually take the pressure off him and give him a chance to gradually phase into NBA. Without that, he will face more anxiety and panic attacks as pressure build up for him to perform before he is ready.

 

One interesting part is that "Andrew Vye brings a legal background and many years of experience in the field of Athlete Representation to ASM Sports."

 

It's not a distraction. Unless you really believe that the Rockets would be better than they're already better-than-expected 20-14 mark. I've commented a few times that I'm actually impressed about how this seems to be such a non-distraction to the team.

 

You can keep saying he's top 5 talent or he's worth the pick and believing that he's a victim and the Rockets are not supporting him. But at the end, nobody is at fault here except for Royce White himself. He is the one that demand the NBA for a protocol that will benefit himself.

He is refusing to work, never practice, and is sitting at home on his little computer tweeting away. Yes sure the Rockets took a gamble on Royce, but that was before the Rockets had any real talent. The Rockets took a chance with him, hoping he will cope with his mental illness and shows up to work. But the Rockets did not expect Royce to go AWOL when things didn't go his way.

Royce seem very cooperative with the Rockets until he signed that contract and ever since then, he has been completely uncooperative. He knew all the rules and regulations entering the NBA. He knew what was going on, so why didn't he discuss about his stupid protocols and get it straighten out before signing the contract?

Royce White has not prove anything to the front office and coaching staff. He has not put in any effort in or trying to at least work things out. Royce say he is standing up and fighting for a cause, his protocols, but yet, has not given an specific example about his protocol.

He wants doctors to be able to make executives decisions when they are not qualified to do so. He said the management cannot make medical decisions for him when all they did was assigned him to the D-League. Seriously, do they need doctors to assign players to the D-League now? Do doctors determined whether a player needs to be assigned to the D-League and which players doesn't?

He said he is fighting a battle for the mentally ill. Before, it seem like he was standing up for a good cause, to help others, but now, it's starting to look more like he's doing it to benefit himself. Royce said he is being put in an #unsafe situation even though the Rockets are only asking him to do what he is getting paid to do, play basketball. The Rockets are supporting him in every single way that they can. But the Rockets also have 14 other players they have to support also, 14 other players who are actually putting in work and doing their best while Royce has yet to meet Houston a quarter way.

Royce said its not only the Rockets but the NBA needed protocol. Other players in the NBA who also deals with mental health problems like Metta World Peace and Delonte West gets support from their teams but they actually put in the effort to get treatment. Royce has not shown up to any appointments from a mental health professional the Rockets have issued him but also badmouth the doctor. From what I've heard, his so-call mental health doctor is really just a general private doctor who's really not a mental health professional.

At the end, I' am happy the Rockets suspended White and I hope they will have him suspended as long as possible. He has not done a single thing and this entire time when he's sitting at home playing with toys and tweeter, he never tried to work on his game and get better. He's healthy and has no current injury and he's not doing anything productive. There were news of him working out with the Rockets staff at the Toyota Center for a bit but this guy has been sitting at home for months and he's barely starting to do a little bit of work before going AWOL again and refusing an assignment from his employers.

It might be a waste of a draft pick and I wished we had drafted someone else who would help the team, but right now dealing with him and somehow voiding his contract and get him away from the team is a major big PLUS for the organization.

 

I think the reason why the Rockets are not distracted by all of this is because the players doesn't give a crap about Royce. The coaching staff and players just focus on what needs to be focus on while the management take care of Royce.

To me, I think the players just ignores what's been going on and think of White as an ex-teammate and not worry about his bull****. Plus, the fact that White never shows up to any practice or games is a good thing because then, nobody have to deal with him except for the front office. McHale said something about he doesn't worry about White because he isn't here, he only worries about the players that are there.

 

"DNP-#Unsafe"

 

If these two had a reality show the ratings would be astronomical LoL

 

White is pathetic. I meant, he already got the contract. How much work is to play the game at home and practice at home. Even if he doesn't get pay for the game he didn't play, and he still get more than 1/2 m pretax. That's 15k/games. I wish I get 15k/month.

 

So I guess people can't dream about having opportunities and dream and money... Sorry Royce, not everyone is fortunate like you.

 

"I can't play tonight because guarding Lebron is #unsafe"

"I can't practice because it causes me to get tired, when I get tired it's #unsafe"

"I will only play home games and when I play, I have to be the starting Forward because its my doctor recommendation"

"I will not travel the team bus but rather my own RV because I need a bunch of hot strippers and vodka because its my doctor recommendation"

"I will be the primary ball handler and I require to have the green light over Harden and Lin because its my doctor recommendation"

 

what about the welfare of the ilegitimate child you fathered and need to provide for?

 

At this point, my sympathy goes towards "healthy" people that have to deal with the likes of Royce White.

 

this is all about Royce wanting his own doctor to be able to declare him unable to play/practice at the drop of a hat, and still get paid

 

Its already ugly.

 

Both sides only trust their own doctors. How about rockets provide a list of outside independent doctors with good reputation, and let White pick one?

 

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Royce won't go for that either.

 

Nothing justifies that kind of reaction. Just because you think someone is acting stupid or spoiled, doesn't mean you call them really awful things.

They just aren't offending him, they are offending the mentally ill, blacks, gays, and women.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Ooooo, anonymous death threats this morning... YUMMY! <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23BeWell">#BeWell</a> wishing those people the absolute best. <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23Positive">#Positive</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%232K13">#2K13</a></p>&mdash; Royce White (@Highway_30) <a href="https://twitter.com/Highway_30/status/288375440660377600" data-datetime="2013-01-07T20:03:57+00:00">January 7, 2013</a></blockquote>
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