Derrick White knows he’s not an MVP candidate, but on a night when the Celtics needed to fend off a hot-shooting Knicks team, you can’t blame the Boston faithful for chanting his name like he was one.
New York had whittled down an 8-point first quarter lead and briefly went on top midway through the second, but then DWhite happened. Over the course of the next twelve minutes spanning halftime, White would lead all scorers with 14 points to turn a 4-point deficit into a 20-point lead.
An electric stretch in the third quarter included three consecutive made threes, a handful of assists, two blocks, and a dunk pushed the Knicks on the brink.