The Celtics handled the Hornets with relative ease on Friday, claiming a 127-116 victory.
Here are the takeaways.
1. Derrick White has been excellent for several weeks now, but Friday was different — the kind of heater that makes all of the hard work worthwhile for a basketball player.
White buried a 3-pointer and a floater in the first two minutes of the game, and he tossed in a floater through contact before taking a seat for the rest of the first quarter.
Then in the second quarter, he exploded. White hit three 3-pointers in a two-minute stretch at the start of the period, then hit two more on consecutive possessions five minutes later.