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Royce White headed to D-league??

Sorry Cycsk, I misspelled your name in my last post. I do agree that you shouldn't have babysit a grown man but when said grown man is 21-22 years old and comes into a lot of money and goes into a profession loaded with vultures it doesn't hurt to have a more experienced voice to lend a voice.
 
I have heard some accounts that RW is really only in it for the money, fwiw. Hope he can do all right in the NBA, things seemed to go south as soon as he got paid.
 
Rockets’ White AWOL Again « NBA.com | Hang Time Blog

Sounds like Rockets rookies regularly see some D League action. However, there is more unknown news going on with Royce.

“That’s tenuous and it’s tough to talk about something like that, but I think we can handle it internally,” said Rockets owner Leslie Alexander. “If he doesn’t work out, well, it’s tough to lose a draft choice.


“I feel bad for Royce and I feel very bad for the team. We’ve had internal repercussions which I’m not going to talk about.”
 
Give Royce a break. Anxiety is serious, debilitating condition. We'd all love the Cinderella story. It may happen, it may not happen. Royce has always been very open about his anxiety issues. He made it clear that anyone drafting him was taking a chance on him. He could easily have swept it under the carpet, or at least downplayed it. It's easy for us to sit back and say, "we support Royce as long as he's beating anxiety, but not when he appears to be losing his battle against anxiety." But it might be wiser for us to see how this plays out. I would be delighted if this works out for Royce. But I certainly wouldn't feel let down if it does not work out.
 
gogagig said:
Give Royce a break. Anxiety is serious, debilitating condition. We'd all love the Cinderella story. It may happen, it may not happen. Royce has always been very open about his anxiety issues. He made it clear that anyone drafting him was taking a chance on him. He could easily have swept it under the carpet, or at least downplayed it. It's easy for us to sit back and say, "we support Royce as long as he's beating anxiety, but not when he appears to be losing his battle against anxiety." But it might be wiser for us to see how this plays out. I would be delighted if this works out for Royce. But I certainly wouldn't feel let down if it does not work out.
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Cinderella story? Royce was one of the country's best HS basketball players. Had it not been for that fact he probably wouldn't have received multiple chances to straighten himself out in college and be drafted as high as he was in the NBA. A Cinderella he most certainly is not.

Nobody is downplaying the impact of his anxiety disorder. Cyclone fans, more than anyone else on the planet, are sympathetic to him. Hell, we embraced him when no one else would. We support him but we don't support the way he's going about his business right now. It's like I said earlier, at some point you gotta show up and do the work. You can't be the guy that overcomes mental illness to play in the NBA if you don't 1) overcome mental illness and 2) play in the NBA.

And right now he seems intent on doing neither. I'm simultaneously concerned for him, disappointed with him, and hopeful for his future.
 
If he is out of shape there is zero excuse for that, does he have no one in his life to explain to him he can't miss practice?
 
Hopefully the freakin coach Kevin McHale taking a break at the same time as RW keeps his tenure in Houston from being over before it started.

No clue why the D league won't start until 10 days after Thanksgiving this year. But he needs to go there and play at this point and wait for an injury/opportunity. I can't see him being accepted by his teammates right now.

Paul Peirce is looking long in the tooth maybe McHale wants to hook his buddy Ainge up again? I know the Celtics were very interested in Royce and given the two picks they had back to back (Sully and Fab Melo) I got to think they take RW with one of them if he's there it sounded like Ainge was high on him. Lots of flying playing in Boston though.
 
Full statement from Royce White:

In hindsight, perhaps it was not a good idea to be open and honest about my anxiety disorder, due to the current situations at hand that involve the nature of actions from the Houston Rockets. As a rookie, I want to settle into a team and make progress; but since preseason the Rockets have been inconsistent with their agreement to proactively create a healthy and successful relationship. At this point the Rockets are aware of my position and the reason for my absence. Any other response is inaccurate. This is important to me. It is a health issue. I must advocate for my rights. It is a player-commodity league. The failure to meet my requests for support will end with me being unhealthy and that is not a consequence that I am willing to accept to play any sport.
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Full statement from Royce White:

In hindsight, perhaps it was not a good idea to be open and honest about my anxiety disorder, due to the current situations at hand that involve the nature of actions from the Houston Rockets. As a rookie, I want to settle into a team and make progress; but since preseason the Rockets have been inconsistent with their agreement to proactively create a healthy and successful relationship. At this point the Rockets are aware of my position and the reason for my absence. Any other response is inaccurate. This is important to me. It is a health issue. I must advocate for my rights. It is a player-commodity league. The failure to meet my requests for support will end with me being unhealthy and that is not a consequence that I am willing to accept to play any sport.
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Aaaand this is why we hire a spokesperson and let them do the talking.
 
He needs to just get off of social media and get in the gym. I'll admit I don't know everything about anxiety disorders but in no way being online tweeting about this situation is going to solve/help anything. Best of luck in getting back to what you do best Royce. CyclONE NATION is behind you!
 
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