Former Rockets forward Royce White is skeptical that the NBA genuinely cares about players’ mental health.
In a story by Yahoo’s Dan Devine, White cautioned that the League is engaging in the mental health conversation because it’s a trendy topic.
As the volume gets turned up on the conversation about mental health in the NBA, one voice has been missing.
Royce White talks to @YahooSportsNBA about what happened in Houston years ago, what’s happening now, and why he’s skeptical about the future: https://t.co/VtyMJjmhI6 pic.twitter.com/5YSMZ2Os9h
— Dan Devine (@YourManDevine) March 20, 2018
“There already were faces (for a mental health movement),” he said. “Jerry West, for one. I mean, Jesus, do we need a bigger face than that? I mean, forget me.” […]
“Let’s take Ron Artest, Delonte West, Eddie Griffin, Latrell Sprewell, Jason Williams, Chris Herren — a number of people who toed the line between mental health and substance abuse, which is a co-morbid line, which they know. […]
“So the question becomes, what did they do in light of those cases? And the next question becomes, if it’s not about the faces — if it’s about the public support of the faces, or the public wave that’s going to move the progress — then it’s a sensationalized progress, and then, again, it’s not genuine, in my opinion.”
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