Derrick White is the newest to affix the pantheon of legendary members of the Boston Celtics to earn Participant of the Week honors. Jordan Crawford, eat your coronary heart out.
Oklahoma Metropolis Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Boston Celtics guard Derrick White have been named the NBA Western and Japanese Convention Gamers of the Week, respectively, for Week 17 of the 2022-23 season (Feb. 6-12). pic.twitter.com/cZyf0DJfmW
— NBA Communications (@NBAPR) February 13, 2023
Derrick White has changed Marcus Sensible within the beginning lineup for the reason that latter went down with an ankle harm that’s stored him sidelined for nearly a month. In these video games, Derrick White has scored in double figures each single time, and his present streak of a number of 3-pointers in every sport (10 video games) is the second-longest lively streak behind simply Stephen Curry.
Final week, Derrick White led the Celtics to an ideal 4-0 week regardless of lacking Jaylen Brown, Marcus Sensible and Al Horford (all starters) at completely different factors towards actually robust competitors. Beginning the week off with a heat up in Detroit, White posted 23 factors, 7 rebounds and seven assists. The third greatest report within the East – the Philadelphia 76ers – got here into city fairly wholesome and bought whooped by Derrick White as he put up 19 factors, 6 rebounds and three assists.
The Charlotte Hornets got here into city subsequent simply to get smacked within the face by, you guessed it, Derrick White and his career-best outing. White posted 33 factors (with eight 3-pointers), 10 assists, and three blocks (the one participant to ever try this . . . ever). Lastly, Derrick White hosted his personal Tremendous Bowl social gathering by sticking it to the second seed within the West – the Memphis Grizzlies – as he put up 23 factors and one other 10 assists.
Derrick White’s final 10 video games for the Celtics (all begins rather than the injured Marcus Sensible):
19.4 PPG4.9 RPG5.2 APG1.1 BPG51% FGpercent47% 3P% on 6.6 3PA/game87% FT%
— Keith Smith (@KeithSmithNBA) February 13, 2023
Regardless of Jayson Tatum enjoying in all of those video games (to various taking pictures success at instances), Derrick White was Boston’s greatest participant, and his first-ever Participant of the Week win is well-deserved.
I feel it’s secure to say that the Celtics received that commerce.
Boston’s hoping to have a more healthy roster in tomorrow’s sport towards the Milwaukee Bucks, the staff with the longest lively profitable streak within the league (10 video games). They play tomorrow earlier than a sport towards Detroit on Wednesday to ship the staff into the All-Star break. Hopefully, they’ll be lots more healthy after the break with the return of Marcus Sensible and Jaylen Brown to get Derrick White some assist.