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Any time you can be mentioned in the same sentence as Larry Bird as a Boston Celtics player, you must be doing something pretty special.
And that can be said of the all-around performances Derrick White is giving the Celtics this season.
White is having a career year. He's averaging 15.4 points, 5.2 assists and 4.3 rebounds per game, while shooting 46.4 percent from the field and a career-high 40.2 percent from 3-point range. His 190 made 3-pointers are 41 more than his previous career high set last season and recently earned him a $500,000 contract bonus.
White's defense has been exceptional, too, and he actually ranks second among all guards in blocks with 86. He's likely to make one of the league's All-Defensive teams for the second straight season.
Put simply, the veteran point guard is impacting the game in a hugely positive way at both ends of the floor. And as a result, he's on pace to join Larry Bird as just the second player in Celtics history ever to average at least 15 points, five assists, one steal and one block in a season, per NBC Sports Boston's Celtics statistician Dick Lipe.
Bird did it twice, including his second of three consecutive NBA MVP seasons in 1984-85.
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Acquiring White from the San Antonio Spurs during the 2021-22 season has been a home run trade for the Celtics so far. He is a major reason why Boston has so much skill and versatility on both ends of the floor.
If the Celtics go on to claim Banner 18 this spring, you can bet White will play a pivotal role in that success.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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