The Los Angeles Lakers have been at the Walt Disney World for over two weeks now and they’ve wasted little time in making a couple of the newest faces on the squad feel welcome. J.R. Smith looked comfortable on Saturday but it was really the reactions the Lakers bench had to the play of Dion Waiters, in particular something that the bench screams everytime Waiters decides to pull-up from the 3-point line: ‘Say Cheese!’ which is of course a reference to one of Waiters’ nicknames, Philly Cheese.
Waiters had 12 points, including two 3-pointers, in Saturday’s scrimmage win over the Orlando Magic. After the scrimmage, Waiters told reporters that Danny Green was the catalyst for the ‘Say Cheese’ cheer, according to Tania Ganguli of the Los Angeles Times.
‘Philly Cheese’ has been one of the nicknames Waiters has gone by since his Miami Heat days. The Lakers will need Waiters to handle the ball even more now that they’ve lost Rajon Rondo but the good news for them is that he and the Lakers look like they’re having a lot of fun together.
