When Derrick White was a high schooler in Colorado, everyone called him Baby Face.
“Because he had this baby face,” White’s mother, Colleen, told CelticsBlog in an interview last month. “People would say — what are you, 12? He didn’t find it funny, of course, at the time.”
White was infamously cut from the middle school basketball team in 8th grade.
He was 5’6 when he began his high school career.
And, even when he grew a few inches and put together a dominant basketball career at Legend High School, it was crickets when it came to attracting college basketball offers.