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

Awesome. We pay a dude millions to see a doctor. It would be nice if he decided to engage in some basketball activities.

 

So does he have an actual medical excuse for not practicing with the team yet? If not, continue to fine him. Pretty simple.

 

LOL that's funny.

It's also funny how the bar is set so low for some fans. He saw the psychiatrist so that absolves White for publicly bashing his own team on Twitter. Has there ever been a precedent for this? I can't think of a time when a player continuously put down his own team in such a continuous fashion and remained on that team. Has this happened in the history of the league? Maybe the Rockets are just letting him continue to do this so they have more and more legal grounds to waive him? Just let him build up a list of offenses that's so overwhelming that no judge could rule against the Rockets?

 

Didn't Terrence Williams do something like this last year or the year before?

 

Not nearly as bad and explicit as this.

 

I think Terrence tweeted like 3 times total.....negatively about Rockets.

 

yeah, he's clinically insane

 

In '79, Major Jones was upset over his playing time with the Rockets tweeted crap about the team nonstop for months. Of course back then, Twitter hadn't been invented yet, so the whole incident got very little press.

 

This, this is funny.

 

This Royce White thing is so wrong on so many levels.

Now that he's raised all our awareness (this thread is up to 170+k views) of Anxiety Disorder where's he going to take us next? Is he expecting us all to start a twitter movement to 'Free Royce White' from the D-League assignment and 'Free Royce White' from the Bench so he can get on the court and show us how his 'court vision' is going to allow him to dunk on DH, posterize LeBron, and stuff Kobe? All because he has a natural ability to play basketball like one one has seen? It sounds like we need to 'Free Royce White' from the responsibilities of a basketball player. We need to 'Free Royce White' of his responsibility of even seeking treatment because only a 'Free Royce White' knows how to deal with anxiety disorder. But a Free Royce White signed up to be a basketball player when there's all these other gigs to pick from. I'm sure money, the source of all evil, had nothing to do with it.

The thing is you can't blame the guy. He has some talent. He has options among the different gig. He has a cause. He's never had to deal with responsibility. Get into trouble, no problem, just move on to another town. He has kids and family but which public figure will put that on the web for all to consume? Enlist your kids in your crusade to get paid as a philanthropist while masquerading as a basketball player?

He starves for attention and won't focus on the task at hand. He specializes in instant results - photography, screen writing, 'entreprenurial stuff', twittering, things that gets the maximum bang with the least effort (or at least perceived that way). And yet he hasn't figured out that it's called the 3 pointer on the basketball court.

This coming from someone who is so far down on the depth chart, it's unbelievable he is able to make these demands. How do you expect to help offensively without making your defender play honest defense (and open the lane for your teammates) because you don't have a 3 point shot? Among the top 15 players drafted there's maybe 3 making decent contributions. Rest are going through 'on the job training.' Getting 10 minutes, shooting 30%, generally confirming the idea that draft picks are pretty useless. I'm sure the reason why Jones, the man drafted after him is still on the roster because he HAS a 3 point shot.

A 'Freed Royce White' is making a spectacle of himself and generally trying to garner his 15 minute of whatever fame he can get.

I'm sure he's been told that his contract dictates him to see the doctor the team appoints. And that if he doesn't he will get docked $15k a day. The doctor now has a catch-22. If he does not show some support he will be fired by the patient. The doctor does not have it easy either. How do you establish a therapeutic relationship with someone like this? How do you teach kindergarten rules to someone who always got away with bad behavior and ready to take his talent somewhere else where they don't know the act.

He has some serious growing up to do. Right now his growth is r****ded by his narcissism. He is someone who ought to take up a cause like the homeless. Oh, wait, he already has a cause. But for godsakes, get a 3 point shot.

 

I went to Dr. Fink when I was little for ADHD!!!

 

Are you saying that mental illness is not "actual" or "medical?"

 

Marcus Morris would retweet articles about how underutilized he was and had some emo tweets as well. Draft night he tweeted that he was convinced he wasn't going to be a Rocket any more.

 

So once you say you have some kind of mental illness, you can do whatever the hell you want? Not show up for work, slander your employer, threaten legal action, not visit with the medic that has been assigned to you?

How do you know the guy is not exploiting a loophole with his "mental illness" stuff and playing everyone for fools?

 

Why more athletes do not get "diagnosed" is beyond me. They would forever have a free pass for any boneheaded action of their choice.

 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Can somebody explain to me how you could even get 108 FGA in a game? Ok... <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23JackTaylor">#JackTaylor</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search/%23138pts">#138pts</a> That's CRAZY!</p>&mdash; Royce White (@Highway_30) <a href="https://twitter.com/Highway_30/status/271389300745199616" data-datetime="2012-11-21T23:07:06+00:00">November 21, 2012</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-in-reply-to="271389300745199616"><p>@<a href="https://twitter.com/highway_30">highway_30</a> he was actually on the court, that's a start.</p>&mdash; Issac Haasmann (@IzakDavid13) <a href="https://twitter.com/IzakDavid13/status/271477336250130432" data-datetime="2012-11-22T04:56:55+00:00">November 22, 2012</a></blockquote>
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Well played,Sir!

 

No, I'm asking if his doctor has provided an explicit excuse for his absence. His mental illness is an on-going medical condition, but if that means his availability will be "day-to-day" indefinitely, then he's not "medically" fit to be in the league frankly.

 

Your #ignorance and lack of #understanding is #sad.

 

I'd largely agree. I'd say though that the team will decide whether it's worth it or not to keep him around even day-to-day. If anyone were going to kick someone out of the league because of a medical problem they would have pulled Alonzo Mourning out. The team can ditch him and they probably should, but there's no such thing as "fit to be in the league."