{"id":49831,"date":"2025-07-31T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49831\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:42:08","slug":"derrick-white-recounts-comical-way-gregg-popovich-broke-news-of-his-trade-to-celtics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49831\/","title":{"rendered":"Derrick White Recounts Comical Way Gregg Popovich Broke News of His Trade to Celtics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_nc23opwzm\">Derrick White is the latest NBA player to jump into the podcast game. The 31-year-old veteran <a class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_aoxits\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/fr\/podcast\/white-noise-podcast-w-derrick-white\/id1826846023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">launched his new show<\/a> White Noise this week, giving basketball fans yet another peak inside the life of an NBA player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_8rsdk43f9\">White wasted no time in sharing some of his best stories from his years in the league, recalling the time he got traded from the San Antonio Spurs to the Boston Celtics. As he recounted in the story, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich broke the news like a champ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_n0dxiqrsg\">\u201cWe\u2019re in Atlanta,\u201d White said. \u201cPop walks in the room and he\u2019s like \u2018Hey, uh, we traded you,\u2019 and doesn\u2019t say anything.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_wk6ib8ewf\">\u201cI\u2019m like \u2018to where?\u2019 And he was like, \u2018We wouldn\u2019t f&#8212; you, we sent you to Boston.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_08a0r6iun\">White did his best from there to play casual, but did wind up getting a bottle to drink as he contemplated his NBA future, and joked that he was a bit hungover while meeting his new teammates in Boston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_1mfvp8o-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_qey84o4yk\">While getting traded is never easy, Pop\u2019s words would prove prophetic, as White would go on to be a key part of the Celtics championship run in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA on Sports Illustrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derrick White is the latest NBA player to jump into the podcast game. The 31-year-old veteran launched his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-49831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}