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A letter to Royce White

Oh, Royce.

For a long time I’ve been wavering on whether or not to like you. After all, you played for Tubby in Minnesota, and you at least contemplated coming to Kentucky before transferring to Iowa State, and I even enjoyed watching you play against UK in the NCAA Tournament Round of 32 this past spring.

So there was at least a possibility for you and me to be boys. But after you ran [URL=”https://twitter.com/SIPabloTorre/status/218019914303287296″]your fat yap[/URL] about our beloved Michael Kidd-Gilchrist for no apparent reason, I’m gonna go ahead and chalk this one up as a bad decision I thankfully avoided making.

Sure, [URL=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royce_White#Minnesota”]you once stole a $100 worth of clothes from the Mall of America before assaulting a mall cop, and you were also accused of taking a laptop and trespassing[/URL]. But we all make mistakes, it’s just that some of us don’t know when to quit making them.

See, Royce, you insulted MKG, completely unprovoked. MKG didn’t do a thing to you, and it’s not like you guys are going to get into an argument in an airport terminal. No, Royce, guys like you are the children. The ones who say things for no reason when the object of your verbal attacks aren’t around. The ones who have an irrational fear of flying that goes beyond a phobia to the point of “how is this boy doing between the ears”.

Speaking of “between the ears”, I’m thinking there’s some space between yours, Royce. I mean, it’s not every day that a man chooses to live in Iowa over Kentucky due to a pregnant woman. After all, as [URL=”http://www.nationofblue.com/royce-white-discusses-kentucky-recruitment-11650/”]Fake Gimel said on here earlier[/URL], DeAndre Liggins made it work last year. Of course, DeAndre Liggins doesn’t steal from the mall, or assault mall cops, or take laptops, or trespass, or have a fear of flying, or talk smack about a guy for no reason (not to mention a guy who, as of June 27, 2012, I have yet to hear one bad thing about).

MKG is more of a man than you will ever hope to be. He overcame a near-crippling fear of public speaking, he changed his last name in honor of a fallen family member, he busts his butt every time he sets foot on the floor. He is anything but a kid.

At worst, he’s a kid who’s gonna be picked ahead of you Thursday night. He’s also a kid with a national championship ring. And that’s a hype you know nothing about.

Punk.

[B]LAST MINUTE UPDATE:[/B] You are [URL=”https://twitter.com/Highway_30/status/218032927353737217″]already back-pedaling[/URL], Royce. That’s not very manly.

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