Boston Celtics guard Derrick White has achieved so much in his basketball profession, profitable every little thing from a gold medal to an NBA championship. But, the 31-year-old has did not do one thing that varied gamers throughout the league have: obtain a technical foul.
White, who’s identified for being comparatively mild-mannered, is not one to complain to the referees. A lot of his fellow NBAers differ from him in that regard, together with Celtics teammate Jayson Tatum. In actual fact, Tatum had the fourth-most technical fouls of any participant final season, and he is joked with White that he cannot really respect him till the officers reward him a tech, per the “White Noise Podcast.”
“There are guys on the crew which were giving me giving me hell about not having a technical foul,” White stated with a smirk. “[Jayson Tatum] advised me he does not respect me till I get a technical. We’ll see. We’ll see. Not towards him, however I am not going to exit of my option to get one… I will get ejected.”
Derrick White jokes that Jayson Tatum continues to be ready on him to get his first technical:
“JT advised me he doesn’t respect me till I get a technical.”
He later teases Jordan Walsh for being the one participant to get ejected throughout Summer season League.
(Through the White Noise Podcast) pic.twitter.com/9WbVhYHFAL
— Daniel Donabedian (@danield1214) August 6, 2025
If getting T’d up is a ceremony of passage within the NBA, then Celtics wing Jordan Walsh formally grew to become a vet this offseason. Throughout a Summer season League loss to the Miami Warmth, Walsh earned two technical fouls, which qualifies for an ejection. White laughed about this on his podcast and poked some enjoyable on the third-year Celtic.
“I feel J-Walsh was the one particular person to get ejected in Summer season League this yr, so it is all the time nice to be the one particular person to do one thing,” White stated sarcastically. “So congrats to that.”
I do know Joe Mazzulla is loving all of this
Jordan Walsh was able to go pic.twitter.com/h5EN4WJPQt
— Daniel Donabedian (@danield1214) July 15, 2025
Though White is 10 years older than Walsh, he nonetheless hasn’t even approached an ejection over the course of his eight seasons within the Affiliation. Whether or not or not that adjustments in the course of the 2025-26 marketing campaign stays to be seen, but Celtics head coach Joe Mazzulla — who loves any form of battle — would seemingly be ecstatic to witness White get fired up sufficient for a technical (or two).
Celtics followers would possibly really feel in a different way, because the Inexperienced Group is already undermanned with Tatum out indefinitely attributable to an Achilles harm. In his absence, Boston wants White on the court docket as a lot as attainable subsequent season if it desires to come back near a top-four spot within the Japanese Convention.