Coach LeBron has spoken, so Waiters may never start again.
“For the best of the team, that should be Dion’s role,” James said. “Dion comes off the bench and brings us that scoring mentality but more than that, he brings us another defender off the bench, which we need. Someone that’s tough, someone that can guard one through three. It’s a new role, but it’s a good role for him.”
Waiters for his part says whatever role he is given he is going to embrace it. There are going to be a lot of growing pains with the Cavs, but they are going to be fine in the long run.