Royce White says the NBA wasn’t — and still isn’t — ready for his message about the importance of mental health, but he at least hopes that you are.
White, the former Minnesota high school star who signed with the Gophers, landed at Iowa State after trouble here and was chosen by the Rockets 16th overall in the 2012 NBA draft, has been for several years a mental health advocate while openly chronicling his decade-ago diagnosis with generalized anxiety disorder.
He has been playing this summer in the Twin Cities Pro-Am Basketball League while living in Minnesota and pondering his next moves — on and off the court.