Early on in the preseason, it became clear that adjusting to his new role as the leader of the San Antonio Spurs second unit was going to take Derrick White some time. White struggled early on in preseason but came around and turned ambiguity into opportunity.
It wasn’t the first time that White had to adjust to a sudden change to his role on a team, not even close. That would have come last year, when Dejounte Murray, the Spurs presumed starting point guard, went down with an ACL tear. It initially looked like White would step in as Murray’s natural replacement but that was not to be.