Royce White

So I was the only player in the country to lead my team in all five major stat categories.

And so, you know, I was versatile and I was big, strong, NBA ready, and I played a high IQ game.

And I was very unselfish past first guy and tough, gritty.

So people said I was ready to play right away, which kind of boosts you up that mock draft status.

But there were questions and concerns about my anxiety.

Like, is anxiety a character issue or a medical issue?

Well, those are questions that the NBA owners and GMs had to kind of sort through that year.

And the media was very interested in this.

Like, well, how do people view mental health now in the NBA, but in society?

So my story became like a microcosm of the mental health conversation in society.

And when I got drafted, you know, I had a dispute with the NBA about policy.

And for example, like they have a banned substance list.

On the banned substance list was a

anti-anxiety medication that I was prescribed, Xanax.

Xanax, very popular anti-anxiety medication, one of the most prescribed in the world.

Yeah, I used to be on it.

Yeah, a lot of people, right?

Jordan Peterson had trouble with benzodiazepines.

And benzodiazepines is a class of the drug, right?

Xanax, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan, right?