Some may have not heard of the name but now the entire league knows who Derrick White is. There’s something about players whose last names are colors and who wear number four that happen to show up in big games. Derrick White managed to make his point in game one. He made a statement basically saying “I have arrived” making his presence felt Saturday night at the Pepsi Center.
Derrick White was making excellent plays and most importantly was making the right basketball decisions. He even dunked on Nuggets power forward Paul Millsap and hit a big clutch three point shot that eventually was the dagger for the Spurs win. White finished the night with sixteen points, five assist, and three rebounds. To most these stats may not seem like anything special especially for a starting point guard but White made his presence felt in game one. Denver was really prepared to just stop shooting guard Demar Derozan and contain power forward Lamarcus Aldridge to a certain extent and try to make the rest of the Spurs try to beat them but with White going off the Nuggets now have to worry about him.
The story of the night was the fact that Derrick White was from Denver and how he was facing his hometown team and about how he was having a nice game against them. White dunking on Millsap also added more to the story as his dunk was number one on SportsCenter top plays. White was a non star recruit out of high school and went to a culinary school to play college and did not even get a full tuition, then how he went to community college to play basketball and transferred to the University of Colorado at Boulder for his senior year and became a first round pick and now all of a sudden was shining in the playoffs. The first phrase that came to everyone’s mind was that he was a stereotypical Spurs player.
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