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Heat don't expect Waiters for start of season

MIAMI -- Miami Heat guard Dion Waiters will begin this season as he finished last season -- unable to play.

Waiters has not recovered sufficiently enough from left ankle surgery to be ready for the start of training camp next week, the team announced Tuesday. Heat president Pat Riley said it's unlikely that Waiters will be ready for the start of the regular season, as well.

The announcement wasn't a total surprise because Waiters was told when he had the procedure in mid-January that he could be sidelined for up to 10 months.