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Exactly. Every team in the NBA knew about his condition. So why draft him? If I was a gm and knew that I would never consider taking him.I bet Houston wishes they did not draft him. Dude is a bum.
Exactly. Every team in the NBA knew about his condition. So why draft him? If I was a gm and knew that I would never consider taking him.I bet Houston wishes they did not draft him. Dude is a bum.
He's going to regret handling this the way he has
I also spoke with Daryl Morey, the Rockets general manager. He declined to make any on-the-record statements, but he seems to have a pretty reasonable view on White's potential future. Morey also mentioned that the true risk of selecting White was not as severe as many people think, since only about 20 percent of players drafted 16th overall end up having major NBA careers anyway.
What if stress is just part of it?
What does that mean, "It's just part of it"? That's like saying people getting killed is just part of war.
But people getting killed is part of war. That's the downside of war.
It doesn't have to be, though. We choose that. When you say, "That's just part of it," it implies that this is natural. Volcanoes don't kill human beings. Volcanoes kill human beings because human beings build houses right next to them.
Yes. But when I ask, "What if stress is just part of it?" I'm really asking, "What if it's just part of the choice that society has made?" It may be problematic, but what if we've all agreed that this problematic thing is part of the experience of being involved in a rarefied profession?
That's fine. But don't act like this wasn't a choice.
So what would you have done if, upon drafting you, the Rockets had said this: "Look — this is going to be hard for you. It might, in fact, be detrimental. But that is just part of competing at this sport at this level."
You can't do that, though. You can't discriminate against somebody, because that's ADA law. People say I'm getting special treatment, but it's the NBA who wants special treatment. They want to say they're this rarefied profession where laws don't apply. But ADA law is federal. I've always said the NBA should have a mental health policy
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(A) not making reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability who is an applicant or employee, unless such covered entity can demonstrate that the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the business of such covered entity
Yea I don't get that at all, "shooting maybe once a week" ******g serious? With all this time away he could've sharpened his game at least.I sympathize with him up to a point. However, makes ZERO sense for him not to work on his game right now. It's flat out idiotic.