SLATER SCOOP: A Miami Heat player had a medical emergency on their flight from Phoenix to Los Angeles on Thursday night, according to sources.
— Andy Slater (@AndySlater) November 8, 2019
A Heat spokesman told me the team cannot comment due to medical confidentially laws.
UPDATE: Dion Waiters is the Heat player who had medical emergency on team plane, I’ve confirmed.
— Andy Slater (@AndySlater) November 9, 2019
Waiters overdosed on “gummies,” sources say, and was passed out when plane landed.
He had a seizure when he was finally woken up, I’m told.
Waiters was listed out tonight (illness)