Boston Celtics All-Stars Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown might be one of the NBA’s best on-court duos. But when it comes to postgame press conferences, Tatum has a different partner-in-crime: Derrick White.
After Saturday’s 124-118 win over the Detroit Pistons in which White made a clutch block on Cade Cunningham down the stretch, Tatum and White surprised reporters by showing up to the podium together, which isn’t typical after regular-season games.
“It’s like an unwritten rule,” Tatum explained. “We’re supposed to do media together, ever since the interaction with the guy who thought I had a fake watch in Abu Dhabi. It’s like we’re kind of bonded post-game media now.”
Tatum and White indeed shared a podium together after the Celtics’ second preseason game against the Denver Nuggets and had a good chuckle when a reporter asked Tatum if the watch he was wearing was real.
So, the Celtics teammates decided to run it back Saturday night in …