Dion Waiters will be the first Syracuse Orange men’s basketball product to play in the NBA Finals in 40 years. The last player to do it was Marty Brynes, who of course won a ring with the same Los Angeles Lakers franchise in 1980.
Waiters will be going up against a familiar foe come Wednesday in the form of the Miami Heat, a team that he played with for four seasons before coming to the Lakers. In South Beach he played in 123 games (starting in 101 of them) averaging 13.9 PPG, 3.6 APG, 2.