Derrick White leads Celtics over Rockets in second straight road win: 7 takeaways

Derrick White looked like an All-Star in Houston.Derrick White and the Celtics routed the Rockets 109-86 in the second half on Friday, claiming their second road win in as many days.

Here are the takeaways.

Derrick White’s All-Star case is strong (albeit unlikely).

It will be very hard for Derrick White to make the All-Star team this year in a very crowded field, but performances like Friday make his case a lot stronger.

On a night when the Celtics were without Jaylen Brown – and on a night when the Rockets were dead set on not letting Jayson Tatum beat them – White was more than up to the task of being the Celtics’ second star, hurting the Rockets in a wide variety of ways en route to a…