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Q. I got another question that just came to came to mind, go play for the NBA expansion team in Las Vegas or play for Barcelona. Same contract, same money. 150 million deal. Hugo Gonzalez: I'll play for Las Vegas. Derrick White: You never know where life goes, you know? He could be 15 years down the line he's like, "Man, maybe I want to." Gonzalez: It’s not because I don't like Barcelona, I got a lot of family that supports Barcelona and they're really close to it and I really respect it. The point is like basically I've been in Real Madrid since I'm 11. So like they basically teaching me how to play basketball. So like as just as a sign of respect, not because I don't like Barcelona. I think Barcelona is a great team, a great organization.
Derrick White: Choose, hit the game winner for Barcelona against Real Madrid in Madrid or lead Atletico fans in their anthem after they finally beat Madrid in the Champions League final. Hugo Gonzalez: Because I got a lot of family that is from Atletico, I'll just say Atletico. So also, I play Real Madrid basketball too. So I would not like it. White: You wouldn't play for Barça? Gonzalez: I wouldn't like it, honestly.
How have you handled switching up between playing guard and forward? Jrue Holiday: “I’ve been doing that for a while. I’ve played with [Rajon] Rondo. I’ve played with Lonzo Ball. I’ve played with Derrick White. I think having another guard back there or two more guards, I like it that way. That’s because Scoot can guard multiple people. He can do multiple things. Sidy can do the same. So it has been fun.”
Justin Turpin: Jayson Tatum on Derrick White getting MVP chants: “That’s what I love about this city and the fans here. They know what winning basketball is and they know when guys are contributing and doing spectacular things or maybe all the little things. They know when you’re competing and making plays. That’s their way of putting their energy into the game… I think it’s really cool and much deserved.”
Noa Dalzell: Celtics Injury Report vs. Brooklyn (10/27): Devin Carter - Illness - OUT Derrick White - Right Hip Synovitis - PROBABLE
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Bobby Krivitsky: I asked Derrick White about the role the Celtics’ offense played in feeding into the Pistons’ second-half comeback: “The game is connected…Any time you have live-ball turnovers or you get stagnant on one end, it gets the crowd going, it gets them going, and that was a big thing on their run.”
NBA Trade Machine: Derrick White was involved in 5.1% of all trades built on HoopsMatic over the past 24 hours. Of those, his top destinations were New York (28.4%), Phoenix (17.9%), and Brooklyn (7.5%). Players traded for him most often: Jalen Brunson (28.4%), Jalen Green (17.9%), and CJ Huntley (6.0%).
Celtics on CLNS: Derrick White on how Jayson Tatum looks to begin this season: "I thought he looked pretty good last year, so just getting that confidence and over the mental hurdle."
Derrick White: Derrick says he’s sad to see Jaylen Brown in Philly but is thankful for his time on the Celtics and inspired by the impact he made within the Boston community 💯 Season 2 of White Noise is HERE, presented by @highnoonsunsips ☀️
Keeping White for the rest of his career would be easy under the old way of doing business. It’s less straightforward in the apron era. Good, expensive teams ultimately have to give away talent, and what talent they choose to part with depends on how the remaining talent looks with and without them. It’s an added layer of pressure on the harsh reality of NBA basketball. “The business is the business, especially nowadays,” White told Celtics On SI. “Anybody can get traded. But I think we do a good job in the locker room, kind of wanting to care about each other.”
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Grant Hill: 'Contrary to popular belief, I do like Jaylen Brown. I love his game, and things got difficult there with that team. In putting the team together, just to give some context, we had Kawhi Leonard on that penciled in on that team, and he got hurt at the end of that season in 2024. He came to camp, he wasn't right, and so we had to pivot. A couple of things happened at that camp, and people want to believe what they want to believe, but at the end of the day, Kevin Durant showed up, he was hurt. He had a grade one calf strain, and I think we all have PTSD from the last time he had a calf strain, so we were very patient with him. Jayson Tatum had just had a baby, so he showed up late. Joel Embiid was, you know, we knew we were managing him, but we needed him for Nikola Jokic against Serbia, because that was the matchup. We didn't have our full roster, and then we started looking around and saying, oh man, like Jrue Holiday was so important for us in the FIBA game. A point guard who can play his role, ball pressure, the whole nine. If Jrue got hurt, our point guards were Jrue Holiday and Stephen Curry, and defense wasn't necessarily their strong point. It was like, okay, let's bring in insurance for Jrue Holiday and like Derrick White. So that was the thought process.'
As Derrick White and Jordan Walsh went through a workout on one of the Cox Pavilion courts Saturday morning, head coach Joe Mazzulla detailed the respect he has for Brown, what Boston will miss most about him and the need to create a new path forward without him. After 10 highly successful seasons with Brown, Boston will take on a different look with Paul George, Mitchell Robinson and Mike Conley now on the roster. “There needs to be a grieving process for losing not just a player in Jaylen, but a person in Jaylen,” Mazzulla said in an interview with The Athletic. “There needs to be a grieving process that this guy, what he has done on the court and what he’s done in the community and what he’s done for the city of Boston, there should be a grieving process. But the … gray area is throughout that loss, you’re also gaining.”
