Sources: Celtics, Derrick White consent to $126M augmentation
Boston Celtics monitor Derrick White has settled on a four-year, $125.9 million agreement expansion, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. The arrangement incorporates a player choice.
Boston procured White, who turns 30 on Tuesday, at the exchange cutoff time 2022, sending a first-round pick and a future first-round trade to the San Antonio Spikes to land the flexible watchman. White proceeded to assist the Celtics with coming to the 2022 NBA Finals, where they lost to the Brilliant State Heroes in six games.
After principally making light of in a 6th man job the stretch and in the end of the season games for Boston in his most memorable half-season with the Celtics, White moved into the beginning setup for every one of the beyond two seasons, procuring second-group All-Protective distinctions in every year and setting up a good foundation for himself as one of the association’s chief two-way monitors.
That standing was upgraded, to a great extent, by White making huge additions as a shooter across the beyond two seasons, hitting 38.1% and 39.6% of his triples in the ordinary season, separately, and making over 40% of them in both of Boston’s beyond two season finisher runs. He arrived at the midpoint of 13.8 places, 48 bounce back and shot 39.5% from long reach in the Finals as the Celtics beat the Dallas Nonconformists 4-1 to win the establishment’s record eighteenth NBA title.
By broadening White, the Celtics have gotten all their center players on long haul contracts as they attempt to hold the association’s reigning champs together for years to come.
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