Dion Waiters Thinks He Will Be the Best Shooting Guard in the NBA

September 3rd, 2013 by Dan Favale Leave a reply »

Dion Waiters is coming. Consider James Harden, Kobe Bryant and Dwyane Wade warned.

Speaking with Hoopsworld's Alex Kennedy, Waiters wasn't shy about calling himself the NBA's next great shooting guard:

I’m coming. I just feel as though I’m next up as far as shooting guards. If you look around, you know, Kobe [Bryant] and [Dwyane] Wade and those guys, they paved the way for a player like me and they’re almost done. It’s not like that, but I’m just saying, I’m coming. I just want everybody to know that.

Without a doubt, I really believe that [I’ll eventually be the best shooting guard in the NBA]. This year, I’m going to show a lot of people who doubted me and still doubt me. I’m going to show them. And I don’t need praise and all of that. I just want to be respected. I’m coming. That’s all I have to say.

Waiters does have a point—about having something to prove, that is.

His rookie season was rife with scoring (14.7 points a night), but he struggled to remain efficient, shooting just 41.2 percent from the field overall an ...

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