76ers cut Royce White

[ElNono]

#BeWell

[rastaspur]

Mental illness isn't even this dudes baggage. He's been caught stealing from locker rooms, shoplifting and fighting security guards, and quit on his college team

without even telling them.

I repeat mental illness ISN'T the problem with this guy. His problem is being a degenerate loser and having a mental illness to hide behind.

I tend to agree. This kid is a erkel version of hernandez from the patriots or like thatrnning back from lsu cecil diesel who kept breaking into neighbors apartments cause he couldnt control the creeper in him

[TrainOfThought5]

NO

[racm]

I don't want a headcase player who happens to be the poor man's Boris Diaw.

[james evans]

they sign him and he'd play as many minutes as all of us during the season before he's cut

[xellos88330]

I just don't understand how the kid was even drafted knowing about his fear of flying.

[Dex]

I just don't understand how the kid was even drafted knowing about his fear of flying.

Why would a guy with a fear of flying get involved in the NBA? What did he expect was going to happen?

Oh, that's right...he thought he would be such an amazing talent that he would be the first player to be excused from road games.

[Raven]

Why would a guy with a fear of flying get involved in the NBA? What did he expect was going to happen?

Oh, that's right...he thought he would be such an amazing talent that he would be the first player to be excused from road games.

maybe he thought he could get around 6 milion dollars/4 years for basically scratching his balls..

[Samr.]

If the Spurs could get a contract that protects them from his sissy anxiety disorder, would it be worth the risk to take a chance on this guy?

As someone who suffers from PTSD (which includes severe depression and anxiety), this statement is simply appalling. My PT

If the 76ers, Rockets, etc. are cutting this guy simply because he can't play, then they have every right to do so. But only if they cut him for that reason, and not because of his anxiety.

Anxiety is a true disability. I've had a surgery that caused me to re-learn how to walk. I have osteoporosis. I've been in a wheelchair many, many times. And my anxiety is far more debilitating than any of those. It SHOULD be something that is protected under the ADA, but it isn't. Likely because people can't see it, and thus anxiety is diagnosed on subjective symptoms rather than objective. Ailments in the limbs can be surgically repaired, but most diseases in the brain have no true cure.

I guess the comparison would be signing someone like Oden, knowing that his knees are going to limit him to only a certain amount of games. Same with Royce White. He has an injury, and one that he is very up front about. If you sign him, he won't be available for ____ number of games because of his injury. So of course don't pay him like someone with two good knees, and then support him for what he is rather than what you expect him to be.

Thing with psychological disorders, such as anxiety, is: they get DRASTICALLY worse when you realize perceive a lack of support. And perception is reality. Doesn't matter what you think; it's what he thinks. If he wants a personal doctor, great, get him one if it'll make him feel less anxious. When I get terrible anxiety and flashbacks, I want my wife by my side. Her being there doesn't help me in any substantive way, but psychologically, it "calms the waters" so to speak.

RW is an amazing basketball talent. The dude just needs support, and understanding that he's not "unreliable;" he simply has a disability that he's able to largely play through under the right cir stances.

Unfortunately, he hasn't found those right cir stances yet.

[td4mvp2k]

Spurs dont go for players wit probs