It could just be a matter of the Miami Heat awaiting a viable trade partner for Dion Waiters, and that task was made more difficult when the team suspended Waiters for their regular-season opener.
"They've been trying to trade him since last Christmas," an anonymous NBA GM told Heavy.com's Sean Deveney. "No one was trying to take him on then. And after this kind of thing, it would be really hard to take him on now. He has had just kind of junk attached to him just about his whole career."
The Heat announced Waiters' one-game suspension late on Friday night, according to The Athletic's Shandel Richardson, who added later Saturday that head coach Erik Spoelstra "will offer no further comment" on the matter.