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MHSL82
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Ok.
Most of your post was on what Houston wanted or offered (Only home games; bus to feasible locations; therapist).
You mentioned a little bit of what he wants (guaranteed playing time if he travels). What else?
I don't know, but all he keeps saying if the NBA should have a protocol for mental illness treatment. I don't know what that refers to. Simulated flights? Therapy sessions? Pay him not to play because, you know, he'd play on the court if it weren't for his fear of flying but he shouldn't be punished for having the fear. Ok, that wasn't nice, but I don't know what he wants.
He's rejected playing in the D-League which I don't know what that has to do with flying. I think the point was that he rejected the D-League because he feels like his anxiety is demoting him. He also, after rejecting the D-League, objected to the fines they are giving him for not playing in the D-League - you know because they paid him to play or workout at least. Just play home games and near Texas games and get paid proportionally to the services he can do. I'm sure he's rejected the prorated pay because he feels he worth a certain amount to the team and shouldn't lost out due to his anxiety, but I don't know a logical way to handle this - it doesn't seem like paying him for less work makes sense.
Plus, you can't cut another player to put in a part time player and in the playoffs, you can't have a home player only. And you can't knock him unconscious before flights, either. He did go on the flight for the season opener, so I give him credit for that. Now, hopefully/wishfully, it'd get easier for him.