(Source) - Royce White is the NBA draft's "worst first-round pick ever," according to the man who picked him.
Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey selected White with the 16th overall pick in the 2012 draft, but White has yet to appear in an NBA game.
"I take some sort of pride in that you could argue that Royce White is the worst first-round pick ever," Morey said in a Q&A discussion with Houston season ticket holders, according to the ClutchFans.net blog.
White, who is 6-foot-8, has struggled with an acknowledged anxiety disorder that would make it a challenge for him to play a full NBA season.
"He's the only one that never played a minute in the NBA that wasn't just a foreign guy staying in Europe," Morey said. "It just shows we swing for the fence."
Kind of have to hand it to Daryl Morey here. The guy can flat out roll with the punches.
"Yeah I picked Royce White, the guy who's literally so petrified of stepping foot on an airplane that it's prevented him from playing a single NBA game...LOL that was silly of me. Jokes on you guys though because I'll always get credit for making the shittiest pick in league history so who's the loser now?"
*middle fingers to the sky*
Seriously though, it takes a special kind of dude to totally fuck up like that and then go out and snag a superstar like James Harden one year, Dwight Howard the next, and pick up two solid role guys/value pieces like Jeremy Lin and Omer Asik to boot. Not to mention he made the Chandler Parsons pick, someone who is arguably the best value in all of sports at 38th overall in the second round. When you clean up like that you've earned the right to brush off one of the fuck ups. So dammit Daryl do you playa, go nuts, be proud as hell that you made worst pick ever. In the long run, it turns out the joke was on all of us puds who ever doubted your make-or-break riverboat gambling logic. You're playing chess while the rest of us are stuck playing checkers.
"Yeah I picked Royce White, the guy who's literally so petrified of stepping foot on an airplane that it's prevented him from playing a single NBA game...LOL that was silly of me. Jokes on you guys though because I'll always get credit for making the shittiest pick in league history so who's the loser now?"
*middle fingers to the sky*
Seriously though, it takes a special kind of dude to totally fuck up like that and then go out and snag a superstar like James Harden one year, Dwight Howard the next, and pick up two solid role guys/value pieces like Jeremy Lin and Omer Asik to boot. Not to mention he made the Chandler Parsons pick, someone who is arguably the best value in all of sports at 38th overall in the second round. When you clean up like that you've earned the right to brush off one of the fuck ups. So dammit Daryl do you playa, go nuts, be proud as hell that you made worst pick ever. In the long run, it turns out the joke was on all of us puds who ever doubted your make-or-break riverboat gambling logic. You're playing chess while the rest of us are stuck playing checkers.
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