Derrick White reacted to his 2022 Celtics trade with dominos and drinking
Then 27 years old, White was a productive member of the Spurs and believed he'd be in San Antonio as the young team continued to rebuild. Brad Stevens had something else in mind.
'Getting traded in-season is one of the craziest things that I've had to deal with in my NBA career,' White said on his new 'White Noise' podcast. 'I was hurt, definitely, when they traded me.'
White's wife was seven months pregnant and he was in Atlanta with the Spurs when the deal went down. The guard found out from legendary coach Gregg Popovich — not Twitter — which he was grateful for. Popovich called White and then came to his room and told him he'd been traded, but didn't initially say to where until White asked him.
'He's like, 'We wouldn't (expletive) you. We sent you to Boston,'' White recalled.
As news of the trade spread, White's friend and a member of the Spurs athletic training staff, Brendan Bowman, sent him a text: Do you want me to get you a bottle?
White did indeed.
'So me and B started playing dominos and drinking,' White said. 'Then (center Jakob Poeltl) comes in at the end. People are starting to come into the room. So I'm just drinking, drinking.'
Then former Celtics assistant Will Hardy called White and told him his new team had booked him a flight that took off in an hour and a half. He needed to pack his things and get to the airport as quickly as he could.
'At this point I'm lit. I'm lit,' White said. 'I'm upset that they traded me, but now I'm trying to get to the airport. Barely make my flight.'
A night later, White was in the Celtics lineup, scoring 15 points off the bench to help Boston beat the Denver Nuggets at TD Garden.
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