Parquet plays: the making of making history

Every Academy Award acceptance speech has many of the same elements: actors thank their parents, their family, their agents and managers, their directors, their co-stars, etc. Athletes are similar. After a big performance in a big game, they’ll credit their coaches and teammates, too.

After combining for 84 points and being the first Celtics duo to both score 40-plus in the same game, Derrick White (41 points, 9-for-17 from 3) and Payton Pritchard (43 points, 10-for-16) were modest with their career games, instead deflecting the attention and giving props to the team for a team win.

“Tonight could have been Sam Hauser’s night and he hits 10 to 15 threes. DWhite does what he does. JB could…