PARKER — Derrick White, in addition to playmaking, off-ball movement, defense, shooting, handles and basketball IQ, is also something of a baby whisperer. The scouts go gaga for his goo-goo.
“He is Mr. Dad,” White’s longtime coach/mentor Marcus Mason told me Tuesday at the Parker Fieldhouse while the former CU Buffs and Legend High great and current Boston Celtics guard met with campers at the Derrick White Basketball Academy. “Surprisingly, he is Mr. Dad.”
In a spring that saw White become the first former Buff to reach the NBA Finals since Chauncey Billups won it all with Detroit in 2004, then saw him drop 21 points on Golden State in Game 1, the real highlight of the season came a few weeks earlier.