NBA player Royce White speaks on fight for workplace accommodations
MPR News' focus on mental health continues with a conversation with NBA player Royce White about fighting for accommodations in the workplace.
The anxiety disorder he deals with makes it difficult for White to travel by plane, among other things. That's something professional athletes have to do a lot.
White was a high school basketball star when he played at DeLaSalle High School in Minneapolis and later for Hopkins. He put up impressive numbers during one season at Iowa State before the Houston Rockets drafted him in the first round of last year's NBA draft.
But White never played a game for the Rockets because he wanted the team to address his anxiety disorder. Houston traded White to the Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers last month. Whether he'll actually play for the team is still up in the air.
Royce White joins MPR News' Tom Crann in the studio.
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