Derrick White stops by ‘The Tonight Show,’ talks missing tooth
Tom Brady wasn’t the one Boston sports activities icon to cease by “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday night time, as Celtics star Derrick White was additionally within the Big Apple for a particular St. Patrick’s Day look.
The lately named NBA Defensive Player of the Month chatted with Fallon about quite a lot of subjects, together with honing his expertise as a child taking part in in opposition to his dad utilizing a Nerf hoop. White additionally opened up about his personal experiences with fatherhood now that he is a proud dad.
Outside of the good household recollections, White seemed again on a lower than nice second on the court docket final yr the place he glued a tooth back in place during a game. The Celtics star defined he had “been putting off going to the dentist for a while” and likewise had had a couple of previous tooth issues previously.
“I got to the game, I got hit in the mouth, and I had a bridge on at the time, and it came out,” White stated. “So I just picked it up and went straight to the back.”
“I’m not a hockey player, so I had to figure out a way to glue it back together or figure it out,” he added. “So they just kind of glued it and the I put a mouthpiece on and then played the rest of the game, and eventually went to the dentist the next day.”
When requested what his dentist’s response was, White admitted that “he said, ‘I told you to come in a week ago.’”
On a extra nice word, White and Fallon cracked a chilly one in honor of Tuesday’s St. Patrick’s Day vacation, sipping on the brand new (Derrick) White Ale providing from Sam Adams, and chatting in regards to the NBA star’s enjoyable picture on the infamous cop slide. Don’t fear, followers, White stated that he wasn’t allowed to go down the slide, to his dismay, though he bought a pleasant image on the backside.
Matt Juul will be reached at matthew.juul@globe.com.
