“These four (teeth) are connected like a bridge, I guess is what the dentist people call it,” White told reporters after the game. “Shout-out Boston Dental, I’ll see you tomorrow, by the way.

It wasn’t a pretty sight, White said, but he was back on the court by the start of the third quarter. It wasn’t quite Game 5 of the NBA Finals like the first time White got his teeth knocked out.

Derrick White always leaves it all out on the floor for the Boston Celtics. For the second time in under a year, that included some of White's teeth hitting the parquet at TD Garden.

Derrick White infamously gave up one of his teeth in the pursuit of the Celtics’ NBA championship last season. He was reminded of that sacrifice again during Thursday’s win over the ...

Losing fake teeth is a lot less painful than losing real teeth. So, White and the medical staff were able to find an ad-hoc solution at halftime to put his “bridge” back in his mouth and get ...