Jo Jo White

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Joseph Henry "Jo Jo" White was the point guard who led the Celtics offense and propelled the 1974 and 1976 teams to NBA World Championship titles...Was a member of the gold-medal-winning U.S. Olympic Team in 1968...Played for the Green and White from 1969-70 to the 1978-79 season...Named to the 1970 NBA All-Rookie team...Named to the All-NBA second team in both 1975 and 1977...Was a seven-time NBA All-Star...Was the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player in 1976, which featured him playing 60 minutes in the famous triple-overtime Game 5, 128-126 triumph, over the Phoenix Suns at the Boston Garden. On April 9, 1982, White's jersey was retired.

White is a native of St. Louis, Missouri, and played college basketball at the University of Kansas. In the 1966 NCAA Division I Men's Tournament White and Kansas lost a double overtime thriller to the Texas Western (now known as the University of Texas at El Paso) in the Midwest regional final. Texas Western went on to win the championship.

After college White played on the 1968 USA Olympic basketball team which went undefeated (9-0), besting Yugoslavia 65-50 in the gold medal game after the Yugoslavian team upset perennial runner-up the Soviet Union 63-62.