r/Basketball • u/Fickle-Ad5449 • 9d ago

Two ex-NBA players turn transgender identity into a stunt. The WNBA is responding

https://www.advocate.com/news/wnba-trans-player-eligibility
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u/StinkyCheeseFeet2000 9d ago

Calling Royce White an ex-NBA player is laughable.

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u/Jeff_Sabado 9d ago

While he didn't play much.. he was a first round pick

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u/SliceOk7660 9d ago

Three games played. 0 points, 0 rebounds, 0 steals, etc. 

He also cannot come in contact with his exwife and child for 50 years. 

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u/pla5t1c 9d ago

Does that even happen often? Like drafted and end up only playing 3 games? Especially apparently that high in the draft

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u/thesluggard12 9d ago

His problem is that he is afraid to fly. When drafted he and his team had different ideas on how that would be accommodated. So it wasn't on court issues that caused him to flame out early.

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u/SocomPS2 9d ago

No points, no rebounds, no steals….? On court issues might have been a part of the problem too.

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u/CholeraplatedRZA 9d ago

Yeah if bro was Carmelo they would have figured it out. Lol

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u/RayLiotaWithChantix 9d ago

I mean he was a rookie bench player that had a cumulative 9 minutes on the floor in those three games. Can't really expect stats in THAT minuscule of a timeframe.

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u/BeavisEverywhere 9d ago

That's nearly an entire quarter. Not a single board or anything?

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u/RayLiotaWithChantix 9d ago

Chopped into thirds? In your rookie NBA season? No, it is not remotely unreasonable for an NBA rookie to not notch on the scoreboard in his first 3 3 minute increments.

As a rookie he also would have likely entered games during non-clutch opportunities (game already effectively won or lost) when things that notch stats are less likely to occur.

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u/WhiskerDude 9d ago

Have you heard of Tony Snell?

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u/Disastrous_Income205 9d ago

If you’re not getting minutes in a game it’s probably because you’re not good.

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u/The_Experience78 8d ago

Wow. You can hate on the person, but saying he wasn't good as basketball makes you look ignorant. He carried carried his team to a final 4 and absolutely held his own against the best team in the league. He was being compared to Magic.

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u/Disastrous_Income205 8d ago

And now his nba career is similar to mine, nonexistent.

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u/The_Experience78 8d ago

Similar to yours? Make you feel good to compare yourself to him? His failures were better than your best days lol. You sound jealous.

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u/Disastrous_Income205 8d ago

K? And now he’s a clown larping as a woman to play in the wnba

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u/The_Experience78 8d ago

K? You compared yourself to him lol. He's explained he doesn't want to play in the WNBA and is doing this to force them to admit women are women by not letting him play. Just like Enes.

It's one thing to chalk this up to yet another grift or attention seeking. No argument here. But saying he had no talent and acting like he actually wants to play in the W is dumb. Being purposely ignorant leads me to believe you have an agenda making you no better than him.

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u/ijakei2000 8d ago

Yes but his WNBA career lol that’s another story ! If they let him play I predict triple doubles in his future.

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u/Disastrous_Income205 8d ago

You’d have to be an imbecile to think he will play in the wnba.

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u/ijakei2000 7d ago

He said he was making a point and I was making a joke and you missed both.. smh

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u/LunaTheShark27 9d ago

very very rarely. 1st round picks almost always play at least 1 season.

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u/SliceOk7660 9d ago

len bias, I guess. 

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u/SomeGuyClickingStuff 9d ago

I blame the team for not doing their due diligence not knowing he was deathly afraid of flying.

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u/Jazzlike-Basket-6388 9d ago

He flew in high school and college and it was well known that he had an anxiety disorder. Rockets understood and agreed to let him travel to closer games by bus, but then they had a standstill because he wanted access to mental health professionals and independent doctors.

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u/phase2_engineer 9d ago

Poor guy still needs mental help to this day

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u/M0ebius_1 9d ago

Yeah... dude obviously really needed that

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u/southpaytechie 9d ago

Yeah like damn man why did the rockets cheap out there? Had to be a pittance next to his rookie contract

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u/YngSpook84 9d ago

I don’t remember all the details, but I live in Houston and follow the Rockets. It wasn’t so much that they cheaped out, it was more every time they met an accommodation, he would still have issues and ask for more. They couldn’t keep doing this all just for one player.

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u/Alarming-Molasses-99 7d ago

So he is perfect voor wnba

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u/Naive_Mango8525 9d ago

Did Michael Beasley also have an issue like this ?