It has been since the great Chauncey Billups that Colorado basketball has had any alumni play in the NBA All-Star game — but that’s very likely to change this season. A Colorado native and Colorado basketball legend, Derrick White, is starting to rise in the ranks of the NBA on a Boston Celtics squad seemingly destined to compete for a championship.
On any given night White can score 25 points, and his team is so loaded from top to bottom that they can potentially have everyone in their starting five be elected to the All-Star game. White will have enough production and enough wins to be among the Celtics heading to the mid-February classic.
White proved himself in last season’s playoffs for the Boston Celtics and now he is going to shine all season long. He may also have more in common with Billups than just being an All-Star.
Derrick White, like Chauncey Billups, could go from Colorado basketball to NBA championship glory
The Boston Celtics are so loaded from top to bottom that White can be another star guard from Colorado to win an NBA Championship.
Chowder and Champions’ Tyler Maher believes the Celtics will face their stiffest competition in the Western Conference; finding an easy time getting over the hump in the east en route to a second Finals appearance in three years.
“The Celtics are clearly the best team in the Eastern Conference this year (on paper, at least),” Maher prefaced before saying, “They’re better than the Bucks, Heat and 76ers (and obviously everyone else below them), giving Boston a relatively easy path to the Finals. The real competition is in the West.
“If Boston does make it there, they have the offensive firepower and necessary defensive presence to compete with anyone. They’re also battle-tested and should be extra motivated to finish the job after their recent string of playoff defeats.”
With a new spirit in Colorado from the “Prime Effect,” White can be the first Buff to win it all in the Deion Sanders era; hopefully of many.