{"id":406576,"date":"2024-07-11T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/nachrichten\/derrick-white-ersetzt-kawhi-in-team-usa\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T10:07:52","slug":"derrick-white-ersetzt-kawhi-in-team-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/nachrichten\/derrick-white-ersetzt-kawhi-in-team-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Derrick White ersetzt Kawhi in Team USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/geruchte\/kawhi-leonard-verpasst-olympia\/\">Shortly after news broke that Kawhi Leonard would miss<\/a> the 2024 Paris Olympics, <em>Team USA<\/em> confirmed that Derrick White of the Boston Celtics will step in as his replacement for the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>White, 30, recently celebrated an NBA championship as a key piece of Joe Mazzulla\u2019s squad. In the Finals against Dallas, he averaged 13.8 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 2.6 assists while shooting 40% from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Welcome to the ?? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/USABMNT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#USABMNT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dwhite921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@Dwhite921<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/99n1S33ITO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/99n1S33ITO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; USA Basketball (@usabasketball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/usabasketball\/status\/1811067990668104106?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">July 10, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>As for Kawhi, both <em>Team USA<\/em> and the Clippers agreed that the two-time Finals MVP would rest this summer to be at full strength for the 2024\u201325 season.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s worth noting that, after Paul George\u2019s departure, he will be the highest-paid player on the Los Angeles roster. He still has three seasons ahead on his contract, totaling $153 million.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, he appeared in 68 official games (all as a starter) and put up 23.7 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 3.6 rebounds in 34.3 minutes per contest.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Cover photo: Elsa\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shortly after news broke that Kawhi Leonard would miss the 2024 Paris Olympics, Team USA confirmed that Derrick White of the Boston Celtics will step &#8230; <a title=\"Derrick White ersetzt Kawhi in Team USA\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/nachrichten\/derrick-white-ersetzt-kawhi-in-team-usa\/\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber Derrick White ersetzt Kawhi in Team USA\">Mehr lesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14497,"featured_media":406564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,3744,845,166,893],"class_list":["post-406576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nachrichten","tag-boston-celtics","tag-derrick-white","tag-kawhi-leonard","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-team-usa","no-featured-image-padding","resize-featured-image"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/bayern-st-urmt-an-die-spitze-1.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Niko Jens Schwann","author_link":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/autor\/niko-jens-schwann\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410988,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406576\/revisions\/410988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nbamaniacs.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}