Tom Brady wasn’t the one Boston sports activities icon to cease by “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday evening, 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 matters, together with honing his expertise as a child enjoying towards his dad utilizing a Nerf hoop. White additionally opened up about his personal experiences with fatherhood now that he’s a proud papa.
Outside of the good household reminiscences, White regarded 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 number of previous tooth issues prior to now.
“I got to the game, I get 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 chatted concerning the NBA star’s enjoyable photograph 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 obtained a pleasant image on the backside.
Matt Juul may be reached at matthew.juul@globe.com.
