{"id":81176,"date":"2025-08-14T03:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81176\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T03:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T03:16:08","slug":"derrick-white-kept-unused-victory-cigars-in-his-locker-for-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/81176\/","title":{"rendered":"Derrick White kept unused victory cigars in his locker for 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"a-term a-term--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.com\/tag\/boston-celtics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCeltics\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tHe dished them out to his teammates when the Celtics won it all in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Derrick-White-689d3c4f3a1fe-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-16:9 size-16:9 wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n\tCeltics guard Derrick White rides on a duck boat. Erin Clark\/Globe Staff\t<\/p>\n<p>It was close but no cigar for the Celtics in the 2022 NBA Finals.<\/p>\n<p>No cigar in a figurative sense, as they squandered a 2-1 series lead against the Warriors and watched their title hopes slip away. No cigar in a literal sense, in that they didn\u2019t have a chance to light up the cigars Jaylen Brown gave the team to ignite the run.<\/p>\n<p>After the heartbreaking loss, Celtics guard Derrick White gathered those cigars and held onto them for safekeeping for two years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI kept it in my locker from that moment,\u201d White said on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XnQn13TdDnM&amp;list=PLBbN-fevYjUn5vgAeo3x-yI8cejhha8Nh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">White Noise Podcast.<\/a> \u201cI was like, \u2018When we win, I\u2019m going to give these out.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, when the Celtics defeated the Mavericks in 2024 to clinch their 18th championship, White was prepared. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI dug in my locker, like, \u2018Look what I got,&#8217;\u201d White said.<\/p>\n<p>White said he doesn\u2019t smoke cigars himself, but the moment carried great significance in his eyes from a symbolic standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>After years of buildup and anticipation, the Celtics finally accomplished the ultimate goal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe got over that hurdle. We got over that hump,\u201d White said. \u201cThis has been a reminder for two years, just sitting in my locker, of coming up short, and now we are successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cropped-Trevor-Hass-1-681b6615bbe31-681b661c0ed3c.jpeg\" alt=\"Profile image for Trevor Hass\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<p>Trevor Hass is a sports producer for Boston.com, where he writes and edits stories about Boston&#8217;s professional teams, among other tasks.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSign up for Celtics updates\ud83c\udfc0<\/p>\n<p class=\"m-generic-cta__subtitle\">Get breaking news and analysis delivered to your inbox during basketball season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtics He dished them out to his teammates when the Celtics won it all in 2024. Celtics guard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[355,99],"class_list":["post-81176","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\/81176","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=81176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}