Every Academy Award acceptance speech has many of the same elements: actors thank their parents, their family, their agents and managers, their directors, their co-stars, etc. Athletes are similar. After a big performance in a big game, they’ll credit their coaches and teammates, too.
After combining for 84 points and being the first Celtics duo to both score 40-plus in the same game, Derrick White (41 points, 9-for-17 from 3) and Payton Pritchard (43 points, 10-for-16) were modest with their career games, instead deflecting the attention and giving props to the team for a team win.