Cavaliers limp into All-Star break where Kyrie Irving won’t have much of one

Metaphors are a funny thing. In the National Basketball Association, seven seconds can turn a prince in to a pauper. It was the “seven seconds or less” offense that ultimately earned Mike D’Antoni two large market jobs. Reggie Miller used the large part of seven seconds when he drained two consecutive three-pointers against the New York Knicks in 1995. And it was the same seven seconds that turned Cleveland Cavaliers’ rookie shooting guard Dion Waiters’ bold-faced pimp walk into a charlie-horsed limp. The kid would need a cane. As their contest against the San Antonio Spurs was winding down, Waiters — one of the main reasons the Wine and Gold found themselves knotted up with the best team in basketball during the game’s final seconds — slowly brought the ball up the court. Once the rookie hit the three-point line, he morphed into a chubby version of Allen Iverson, dashing to his left before a massive jab step to his right created space for a 20-foot step-back jump shot that found no...