The NBA should focus on basketball rather than politicizing the sport with social justice causes.

“I watch basketball uh or play basketball to enjoy basketball. And when you're constantly being told by uh the broadcasters that you're racist or the players are telling you that you live in a white supremacist country or they're kneeling or wearing masks, I just couldn't take it anymore.”

Royce White argues that the NBA establishment protected its own interests by suppressing his mental health advocacy and misrepresenting him to the media.

“the story became is, well, Royce White just want he's a primadon. He wants special treatment. He wants to be able to bust from Minneapolis to Chicago. And it's funny now I see all these players sitting out a season and a half with injuries or load management. And I'm thinking to myself”