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Derrick White unfazed by chatter around his Team USA selection: “He goes and controls what he can control”

For a couple of weeks now, Derrick White has known he was a likely candidate to replace Kawhi Leonard on the US Olympic basketball team if he wasn’t healthy enough to play.

But with Team USA several days into training camp, and Leonard reportedly playing feeling good and playing well, he no longer expected the call to come.

So, as Team USA began training camp in Las Vegas, Derrick White and his father, Richard, were busy preparing for the annual Derrick White Basketball Academy, a week-long basketball camp held for kids in Parker, Colorado.