Royce White, the 2009 Mr. Minnesota Basketball and former U of M Gopher, is profiled in a new video on ESPN’s new Grantland channel on YouTube.
It documents the night of the NBA draft, and White’s battle with anxiety disorder.
“It feels like you’re dying,” White says.
He ended up going 16th in the draft — to Houston.
It makes you want to root for the kid.
Bob Collins retired from Minnesota Public Radio in 2019 after 12 years of writing NewsCut and pointing out to complainants that posts weren’t news stories. A son of Massachusetts, he was a news editor 1992-1998, created the MPR News regional website in 1999, invented the popular Select A Candidate, started several blogs, and every day lamented that his Minnesota Fantasy Legislature project never caught on.
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