MIAMI (AP) – Dion Waiters leads the Miami Heat in suspensions and headlines this season.
And his future is very unclear.
Waiters won’t be with the Heat for at least nine more games, his 10-game suspension for repeated conduct deemed detrimental to the team started Friday when Miami visited the Los Angeles Lakers, and what happens from there will be anyone’s guess.
He’ll miss out on about $835,000 in salary, raising his total missed through suspensions (he was also shunned from the season-opener) to about $920,000 this season. That doesn’t include a $1.1 million roster bonus he could have gotten by playing in 70 games, a number that is now officially unattainable.