He says that as a kid he was captivated by MMA, but “cultural forces” prevented him from taking it seriously. “The guys I came up with—black males—we had to be careful with our image. Being a mixed martial artist would have sounded strange,” he says. “And sometimes strange gets grouped with trouble.”
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Royce White
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Born: 04/10/91
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:270 lbs. / 122.5 kg.
Earnings: $3,422,588 ($3,810,533*)
Born: 04/10/91
Height: 6-8 / 2.03
Weight:270 lbs. / 122.5 kg.
Earnings: $3,422,588 ($3,810,533*)
Many who don’t quite understand the concept have asked White: Anxiety disorder cut short your NBA career, so how is the prospect of getting smashed in the face not more anxiety-inducing? He has a response at the ready: “Anxiety doesn’t work in a linear, boxed-in fashion. Some people are anxious with spiders. Some people are anxious in dark rooms. Some people don’t like being around other people. Some people need to be around other people. It’s pretty individual.”
ESPN personality Stephen A. Smith is reporting NBA GM’s and coaches are talking behind Carmelo Anthony’s back. Anthony hasn’t played in an NBA game since November. Royce White said this week he believes Anthony is being blackballed from the NBA.
Royce White: COME ON. Anybody who really knows hoop and isn’t an NBA shill knows that Jared Dudley has NO chance against me one on one. TOO LITTLE, no refs to come to his aid. #BeWell
Seven years later, the outspoken White remains a staunch activist for mental health awareness. Equally staunch is his anger at the NBA – the league that he says left him behind – and his skepticism in its true intentions in now publicly embracing the activism he once championed. “The NBA has kept me out because the mental health conversation forced them to look in the mirror, and none of them want to,” he said. “And they don’t want to because they built an entire industry on fallacies and smoke and mirrors and circle jerks.”
“You have a drug abuse policy for players,” White said. “You have a list of banned substances — one of which, by the way, is benzodiazepines, which is one of the most prescribed drugs in America for anxiety. So you’re actually creating a boogie-man narrative around mental health. “Here I am, with anxiety, at 21 years old, and I’m having trouble seeing how I will be able to navigate this industry if there is a true ignorance around the mental health topic. And there was a true ignorance around it that has been admitted now and confirmed by the NBA.”
Marc J. Spears: Hearing Royce White looked great in @thebig3 workout and could get drafted first overall tonight by the Enemies. Also hear Jason Richardson looked amazing and was dunking everything. Other workout notables: Eddy Curry, Mike Taylor, Chris Johnson, Dusan Bulut and Derrick Byars.
