An ex-NBA player has sparked outrage on social media after proudly displaying who he is going to vote for later this year in the US presidential elections during a Big3 league game.
The 33-year-old pro was allowed to have ‘TRUMP 2024’ Sharpied on his head while playing for ‘Power’ in Baltimore after the MAGA Republican candidate debated Joe Biden for the first time this year.
He was drafted by the Houston Rockets but never played for them before a stint on the Sacramento Kings. Last year, he announced his campaign to run for Minnesota senator as a Republican.
The 6-ft-8, 260-pound retired (?) forward has had plenty of bump-ins with the law, too, like being $100,000 in arrears on child-support payments for one of his four children.
On his campaign website, the player, who was Minnesota’s Mr. Basketball in 2009, references some of his well-documented mental health struggles and claims that mental illness was caused by both materialism and a decline in spirituality.
NO SHAME: An ex-NBA player had ‘TRUMP 2024’ Sharpied on his head in a Big3 game recently
The former player isn’t scared of politics and is running a senatorial campaign in Minnesota
The player has also called for an American Jubilee, which would get rid of taxes. In the bible, the Jubilee is the year that follows the passage of seven ‘weeks of years’. This fiftieth year deals largely with land, property, and property rights.
‘first nba player with cte??’ a stunned X user asked.
‘I’m starting to realize, he just wants attention,’ another one said.
‘I don’t take advice from guys named Royce it rhymes with choice which I have and will exercise that come Election Day,’ someone else wrote.
The player, hyped up by no one other than soon-to-be jailed former Trump aide Steve Bannon, has a history of Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD), mainly triggered by his highly publicized fear of flying.
The father-of-four was called the ‘mystery pick’ of the 2012 NBA Draft due to his NBA ready body, legal issues, point-forward skill set, and public disclosure of his issues with air travel during his season at Iowa State (2011-2012).
The Rockets selected him as the 16th overall pick. The player played for the team’s G-League team, the Rio Grande Valley, but never played in an NBA game for Houston.
In 2014, White signed two, 10-day contracts with the Sacramento Kings, but failed to establish himself on the team’s roster.
The former power forward often shares political messages in the Big3, like ‘Free the Uyghurs’
White – a father of four – has previously been accused of domestic abuse and assault by women
He then played in Canada from 2016-2018, where he won two championships on the London Lightning, as well as a scoring title and league MVP.
White – a devout Christian – has previously featured in conversations with Catholic commentator Timothy Gordon.
He was once accused of blowing thousands of dollars at an all-nude strip club and on suspicious unmarked transfers and purchases, as well as domestic abuse by his wife, and assault by a former girlfriend.
White, who also once called women ‘w***es’ and ‘b***es’ on social media, previously had other political motives written on his head during basketball games, such as ‘Free the Uyghurs,’ referring to China’s repression of the Turkic ethnic group.