Sports Illustrated catches up with Dion Waiters during NBA suspension.
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00:00Deon waiters was anticipating his time with the Lakers, but of course the NBA season got suspended for more on what waiters has been doing
00:07I'm joined by Rohan Nadkarni. Rohan, we sort of lose track of some of the stuff that that happened and what's going on
00:13What's the day-to-day like for Deon right now? It's interesting
00:16I mean, I think like a lot of people who are in a position like him he went from being, you know
00:20Really busy. He had a particularly busy day job, especially
00:24Playing for the other Lakers to now getting to spend all this time with his kids, you know, it's interesting Robin
00:29I asked him I couldn't really find the right word for it
00:33I was like, is there something almost fun about this and do you always say it was fun?
00:37You know, I think he was very clear like hey, there's kind of a state of emergency in the country right now
00:41But I do think he's appreciating the idea that you know
00:44Normally, he'd be so busy at this time of the year now. He gets to spend all this time with his kids instead
00:48Now he was gonna get another opportunity. We don't know what his role was going to be in LA
00:53But is he missing that at all?
00:55And has he you know noticed the the difference in being with the Lakers around LeBron? I
01:01Will say you know the one thing I asked I was like, you know, let's say this all ended tomorrow somehow
01:06There's some kind of miracle, you know, the doors are open. What's the first thing you want to do?
01:11It's what's the first place you want to go and he told me he said, you know me man
01:14I just want to hoot that that's really is all he cares about
01:16He said, you know, it's it's basically been like I haven't played this entire season
01:20I'm paraphrasing here, but he's absolutely very very much looking forward to getting back on the court
01:25He told me the Lakers are texting, you know, and they're in their team group thread quite frequently
01:30So it sounds like all those guys are ready to get back on the court
01:33Yeah, when they said they're ready. Do they have any idea what might be happening?
01:38Are they prepared for you know, the quarantine option stuff like that?
01:42Frankly no, I don't think anyone has any idea right now
01:46So we're saying we're not gonna make any decisions in the month of April
01:51I think the players themselves are so far removed from that so far of their control
01:55You know, he Dion certainly didn't really have any insight in terms of hey, when is this all gonna come back?
02:01I don't think they know I think him like a lot of guys
02:03I think are just kind of appreciating, you know, finding the silver lining at least we get this time with our families