Derrick White isn’t the best player on the Celtics, but I feel like he is.
Sometimes in sports, we confront feelings we don’t understand, and we often reject them out of principle alone. Jayson Tatum is the guy on the cereal box, having made two consecutive All-NBA First Teams and perennially leads the team in scoring.
By my count, he has single-handedly won two elimination games, and is simply the first guy most people would think of if you asked them to “name a Celtics player.” No metric-test, eye-test, smell-test or taste-test supports anyone other than Tatum being the best player on the Celtics, and so he is now and ever shall be.