Dion Waiters felt vastly under-appreciated in his freshman season at Syracuse. With discipline and maturity, Waiters came onto the scene in his sophomore campaign by evolving his defense and catapulting himself to the fourth overall pick in the 2012 NBA Draft.
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Dion Waiters was born in Philadelphia where he was raised by a single mother who gave birth to him when she was just 17 years old.