MINNEAPOLIS — Royce White was back in his hometown on Tuesday, June 12, for pre-draft workouts with the Minnesota Timberwolves as he prepares for the NBA Draft later in June. He certainly welcomed the idea of playing in front of his hometown fans.

“Every day,” White said when asked whether he thinks about playing basketball in Minnesota. “I’d give anything to come home and play for these fans here, but unfortunately I don’t have a say in it.”

White worked out and battled with the likes of Big Ten first-team selection Draymond Green and UNLV’s Mountain West first-teamer Drew Gordon. Fellow Minnesota Mr. Basketball Jordan Taylor, another Big Ten first-team selection from Wisconsin, also worked out with White at the team’s practice facility in downtown Minneapolis.

“It was a good workout today,” White said. “Glad to be home — glad to be back at this facility, and it went really well.”

This was White’s fourth workout since declaring his eligibility for the NBA Draft back on March 21 after his notable performance in the NCAA Tournament skyrocketed his draft stock. In the first-round game, White faced up against the likes of first-round talent such as University of Connecticut’s Jeremy Lamb, Andre Drummond and Alex Oriakhi, putting up 15 points and grabbing 12 rebounds.

Then in the second round against the eventual national champion Kentucky, White battled with the draft classes’ top talent such as Terrence Jones and the consensus No. 1 pick in Anthony Davis, scoring 23 points and bringing down nine rebounds.

White is one of the big question marks of the draft. Scouts have had him anywhere from the 10th pick to the second round and even going undrafted. White said the anxiety has been something he’s been asked about a lot but said he has just enjoyed the process.

“To me it’s fun to meet new people and you get to talk to GM’s and get to talk to the guys that are kind of behind the scenes of the game that I’ve been watching since I was a little kid,” White said. “So it’s always fun for me to get behind closed doors with those guys.”

David Kahn, general manager of the Timberwolves, said he has an advantage in the case of knowing about Royce’s anxiety. He cited his relationship with Iowa State’s head coach and former Timberwolves player and assistant general manager, Fred Hoiberg.

Although Kahn said he personally hasn’t talked to Hoiberg, he did say people around the Timberwolves organization have been in discussions with him.

“We have a little bit of a built in advantage with Fred Hoiberg being the coach there,” Kahn said. “So I think in our case we can get pretty well situated so we know what it entails and I think Royce, to his credit, is very upfront about it and willing to talk about it.”

White said he’s just been honest during the interview process about his anxiety and that he hopes what he’s said has been good enough.

“I’ve only had [anxiety] for three years, and I’m still learning,” White said. “Everybody’s kind of still learning about it so I tell them what I know and be honest and hope that’s good enough.”