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Royce White is the type of risk the Clippers must take

Published Jun. 16, 2015 1:49 p.m. ET

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Lance Stephenson isn't the only controversial personality the Clippers have taken on over the past week. They also signed former Rockets first-round pick Royce White to their summer league team recently.

White has only played nine total minutes in the NBA since entering the league before the 2012-13 season, but Fred Katz says at Bleacher Report that bringing him to Orlando for summer league is a no-brainer for the Clips:

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Orlando summer league runs from July 4 through 10.

(H/t to Fred Katz at Bleacher Report.)

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With Fred Hoiberg coming to the Chicago Bulls, it felt like a guarantee White's first move would be to head to Chicago's summer league team. How could there possibly be a better basketball or personality fit out there for a man who's struggled on a personal level to find the right NBA mold?

White played for Hoiberg at Iowa State. They know each other. And most importantly, Hoiberg realizes the proper environment to build around a kid who was one of the best players in the nation while running for him in Ames.

But maybe that's some of the advantage of the Clippers switching over to the smaller Orlando Summer League. (They have always been solely Las Vegas Summer League participants until this summer.) Playing in the shorter league, which has only 10 teams, provides less competition for sought-out prospects, considering players without contracts are more than welcome to partake in both summer leagues.

White could still presumably join the summer Bulls, or any other Las Vegas Summer League affiliate for that matter, out west if he wanted to, though there have been no indications at the moment that would be the case.

So the Clips have a legitimate starting piece for their OSL team, a man who will almost certainly be the best talent on the floor. But the questions remain, what kind of shape is he in? And can he be comfortable?