Derrick White became a champion during Game 5 of the 2024 NBA Finals.<\/p>\n
He also became an impromptu dentist.<\/p>\n
The Boston Celtics star appeared on Tuesday’s episode of The Tonight Show and recalled when his tooth was knocked out in the game during a discussion with Jimmy Fallon (3:20 mark).<\/p>\n
“I go to the game, I get hit in the mouth,” White said. “I had a bridge on at the time and it came out, so I just picked it up and went straight to the back. I’m not a hockey player, so I had to figure out a way to glue it back together.”<\/p>\n
“So they just kind of glued it and then I put a mouthpiece on it, played the rest of the game and eventually went to the dentist the next day.”<\/p>\n
It worked, as White finished with 14 points, eight rebounds and two steals on 4-of-8 shooting from three-point range during the Game 5 victory. The Celtics clinched a 4-1 series win over the Dallas Mavericks, which marked the first championship of the guard’s career.<\/p>\n
White was excellent for Boston throughout that playoff run and averaged 16.7 points, 4.3 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 1.2 blocks and 0.9 steals per game while shooting 40.4 percent from deep.<\/p>\n
He was the team’s third-leading scorer in the postseason and an important secondary playmaker alongside Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.<\/p>\n
He also led the team in the amount of teeth temporarily glued back into place during the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derrick White became a champion during Game 5 of the 2024 NBA Finals. He also became an impromptu…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-549347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}