Nate Robinson: The NBA gave me my depression. Larry Brown called me "the little shit"
Robinson cited conflicts with coaches Tom Thibodeau and Larry Brown as being particularly burdensome
Nate Robinson, in an interview with Bleacher Report, said that the NBA game him depression.
Per Bleacher Report (via ESPN), "The NBA gave me my depression," Robinson told Bleacher Report in a wide-ranging interview. "I've never been a depressed person in my life."
"I was trying to change," Robinson told Bleacher Report. "Nobody would ever know the real struggles that I had to fight to try to be somebody that I wasn't. ... That was the hardest thing in my career. Not basketball, not working out. Not my children.
"But the hardest thing in my whole life, of my 34 years in existence on earth, was dealing with 11 years in the NBA of trying to be somebody that [NBA coaches] want me to be."
Robinson cited conflicts with coaches Tom Thibodeau and Larry Brown as being particularly burdensome. He told Bleacher Report that while with the New York Knicks, Brown called him "the little s---" every day. After Robinson went to Brown's office in tears and asked him to stop, Brown again called him the name in front of the team and told his teammates that he had cried.
Per Bleacher Report (via ESPN), "The NBA gave me my depression," Robinson told Bleacher Report in a wide-ranging interview. "I've never been a depressed person in my life."
"I was trying to change," Robinson told Bleacher Report. "Nobody would ever know the real struggles that I had to fight to try to be somebody that I wasn't. ... That was the hardest thing in my career. Not basketball, not working out. Not my children.
"But the hardest thing in my whole life, of my 34 years in existence on earth, was dealing with 11 years in the NBA of trying to be somebody that [NBA coaches] want me to be."
Robinson cited conflicts with coaches Tom Thibodeau and Larry Brown as being particularly burdensome. He told Bleacher Report that while with the New York Knicks, Brown called him "the little s---" every day. After Robinson went to Brown's office in tears and asked him to stop, Brown again called him the name in front of the team and told his teammates that he had cried.
E. Carchia
@Sportando
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