Adding the Lakers for the end of the season, Dion Waiters does not have only friends and supporters in the league. An executive of the Cavs has not been deprived to send a good old headshot in the back of the head.
In recent years, Dion Waiters’ career has not been easy. We will not go into details on the overdose episode d’edibles on the Heat’s plane a few months ago, but let’s just say that the guy doesn’t have the most off-the-field behavior about the league.
However, the Lakers decided to give it a chance, and this despite a delicate episode involving LeBron James a few years back. It was in 2015, when the King just returned to Ohio, and found a team in difficulty.
Vocal in the media, the double NBA champion with the Heat then attacked Dion Waiters in particular. A few months later, the latter was traded in exchange for a certain… JR Smith, which makes the current situation and this meeting 5 years later even more funny!
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On the Cleveland side, Waiters has obviously not left an unforgettable memory. In the columns of The Athletic, a franchise executive summed up the story in his own way:
If JR kidding, he’ll mess out of the floors. While Dion, he screwed us downright on the ground.
Bim. It is said.
In the Lakers, fortunately for Waiters, the cards are in any case reshuffled. He and Smith will have the opportunity to impress during the scrimmages that begin in a few days, then in the 8 regular season games before the playoffs. The best will probably find a place in the outside rotation alongside Alex Caruso, Danny Green and possibly Quinn Cook.
Dion Waiters has a job to silence his critics, but we imagine him more motivated than ever. It’s up to him to play.
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