Derrick White and the Celtics needed to dig deep to win their fifth straight game on Sunday, taking on a Raptors team that had no intention of going down easily, but White was instrumental in closing out a 121-113 win.

Here are the takeaways.

Derrick White is back

In day-to-day or game-to-game coverage of the NBA, it can be easy to overreact to individual performances, but we now have a couple of weeks of evidence that shows that one of the most important players on the Celtics is back on track.

White is now shooting 39.2 percent from deep in his last 10 games, averaging 20 points per game, and with the Raptors zeroed in on Jaylen Brown in the second half of Sunday’s game, White hit three massive buckets in the fourth quarter.

The first may have been the biggest: The game felt like

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