Andrew Wiggins

The Golden State Warriors have found a gem of a player on their roster with Andrew Wiggins. The Warriors traded for him towards the end of the 2019-20 ...

But with their rising wage bill and luxury tax penalties, San Francisco Chronicle's Connor Letourneau believes if the Warriors are to cut salary, trading Wiggins is their best option. In addition, extensions for Jordan Poole and their rising young core also loom on the horizon. Wiggins has started playing up to his contract value, so his trade value will be extremely high this summer.

The Golden State Warriors and Andrew Wiggins plan to discuss a contract extension this offseason, per ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski on NBA Countdown Thursday ...

They could extend off of that year another four years, three years, but certainly there’s a motivation this summer to see if they can keep Andrew Wiggins long-term." Wiggins made his first All-Star appearance this season and earned starter honors as well. But I’m told both Andrew Wiggins and his representatives, and Bob Myers, the president of the Warriors, they plan to talk about a contract extension this summer, see if they can hammer that out.

The first eight years of Andrew Wiggins' NBA career came and went without a chance to prove himself on the league's biggest stage.

"It's the moment," Wiggins said earlier in the playoffs. Wiggins was traded to Golden State during the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season with D'Angelo Russell going the other way. With the losing came a lack of urgency. But it took a long time for his prodigious talents to take hold in the big leagues. "It's just amazing to see things working out in his favour in terms of kind of dispeling all the narratives around him and who he is as a basketball player right in front of your eyes.'' In these NBA playoffs, Wiggins has turned that reputation on its head.

Canadian basketball star Andrew Wiggins, once saddled with a reputation as a talented player who shied away from the spotlight, has turned that perception ...

"It's the moment," Wiggins said earlier in the playoffs. Wiggins is the eighth Canadian to win an NBA title, joining Mike Smrek (Los Angeles Lakers, 1987, '88), Bill Wennington (Chicago, 1996. Wiggins was traded to Golden State during the pandemic-shortened 2019-20 season with D'Angelo Russell going the other way. With the losing came a lack of urgency. But it took a long time for his prodigious talents to take hold in the big leagues. "It's just amazing to see things working out in his favour in terms of kind of dispeling all the narratives around him and who he is as a basketball player right in front of your eyes.''

Jordan Poole and Andrew Wiggins hilariously celebrated the Warriors' NBA Finals win ... and their upcoming payday.

Wiggins is under contract for the 2022-23 season, but the Warriors might look to extend him, which would result in a hefty payday for the first-time All-Star after his breakout campaign. Wiggins said to Poole. "And you about to get a bag!"

'It's always the player's fault': How breakout champion shattered unfair NBA myth.

“It’s a reminder that for almost every player in the NBA, circumstances are everything. No-one ever talks about, it’s always the player fault. “I’ve always said no-one talks about teams that guys are on or organisations that guys are in. “I think that empowers him. But they have to say I’m a world champion too.” “You’ve got to credit the Warriors for taking a chance on him and seeing the vision and more than anybody, you’ve got to credit Andrew Wiggins for embracing everything that is asked of him with the understanding this is for the greater good of the team.” He can’t be your third guy. You kind of need to find the right place, the right teammates, that kind of stuff and Wiggins has been a great fit.” Everyone’s going to have something to say regardless. He can’t be your second guy. He can’t be your first guy. Wiggins went on to enter the NCAA a year early, declaring in 2012 that he wanted to “score like Kevin Durant and get to the basket like LeBron James.”

Warriors coach Steve Kerr inserted Iguodala into the closing moments of Game 6 with the result — and the team's fourth championship — in hand as a hat tip to ...

That was the splashy part of the play, but how the ball found him was all Wiggins. The Celtics had the ball with less than 15 seconds to play in the quarter, but Wiggins hounded Tatum the entire possession, which ended with a heave from Brown. Wiggins leaped for the rebound in between Tatum and Grant Williams, did a nifty, behind-the-back dribble to move up the court, then hit Poole with a look-ahead pass to create the shot. He kept coming at the Celtics, at Tatum, at Brown, at the people who never thought he had this in him. No one looks for Wiggins to provide the answers when things are not going well in the Bay Area. Wiggins also takes a back seat when things are going well, which is just how he likes it. He topped 40 minutes per game in each of the last four of the series, becoming an indispensable weapon for Kerr to combat Tatum’s scoring and playmaking. The Warriors banked on their culture and their infrastructure to give Wiggins the environment he desperately needed. Wiggins had five general managers and four head coaches in his seasons with the Wolves, a run of volatility that made it almost impossible to get any sort of identity established. Wiggins was playing just the 23rd game of his career, and here was one of the league’s signature stars saying that Wiggins reminded him of himself, a startling tip of the cap from a legend notorious for not fraternizing with the enemy. Those in and around the organization during his first two years with teammate and friend Zach LaVine — the two were dubbed the Bounce Brothers because of the pogo sticks they had for legs — would always playfully ask when Wiggins was going to challenge LaVine, a two-time slam dunk champion, at the marquee event of All-Star weekend. He was 36 years old, with one and a half seasons left in his Hall of Fame career, and the significance of the accomplishment — which came in a 100-94 victory over the Timberwolves — put Bryant in a reflective mood. The mean streak, the competitiveness, the intensity that defined Kobe on the basketball court were nowhere to be found in Wiggins, and it frustrated those in Minnesota to no end. In Golden State, with a trio of Hall of Famers to absorb the attention from the media and opposing defenses, Wiggins no longer carries the weight of an entire franchise on his shoulders. After the game, sitting in a cramped, makeshift news conference room at Target Center, he pulled back the curtain on the competitiveness that it takes to even dare to set a goal of scaling a mountain that high and marveled at the ovation he got from Timberwolves fans when he passed Jordan, a gesture that caught him off guard after so many years of being viewed as the villain.

Wiggins notched 18 points (7-18 FG, 4-9 3Pt), six rebounds, five assists, three blocks and four steals across 44 minutes during Thursday's 103-90 victory ...

- Warriors' Andrew Wiggins: Steps up with 27 points in Game 3 - Warriors' Andrew Wiggins: Scores 18 points in Game 3 loss He averaged 18.3 points, 8.8 rebounds,2.2 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.5 blocks in a whopping 39.2 minutes per game.

The Phoenix Suns should not want to end up like the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Any player that’s one of the two or three best players on an NBA champion deserves ALL the flowers and none of the criticism you’re still holding because of what happened on a draft night in June. He wasn’t a former No. 1 overall pick, and he wasn’t expected to do anything more than be the best teammate he could be. We’ve already seen him as the third-best player on a Finals team at only 22 years old. and should be seen as a cautionary tale for the Suns. He was simply given a fresh start. People assumed the non-passing, cruise-control Wiggins would never fit in with pass-happy, energy-driven Warriors, that they would trade him for another star as soon they could. And he was better in the playoffs than the regular season — exactly what you need from your best players. His new team somehow didn’t care whether he screamed after making a bucket or not. Four years before Deandre Ayton was taken with the No. 1 overall pick by the Phoenix Suns, newly crowned world champion Andrew Wiggins was taken with the top overall pick by the woeful Cleveland Cavaliers in 2014. It’s unfortunate the Suns didn’t show the same consideration for a much more accomplished Deandre Ayton after year three. He seemed like he was playing basketball because he was good at it, not because he loved it. He was the same after wins and losses.

Andrew Wiggins was incredible on the court during the NBA Finals, but even he knows Steph Curry had the performance of a lifetime.

That’s one of the GOATs. Well deserved, he put the team on his back. And with someone like Curry by his side on the court, it’s clear Wiggins knows he’s playing with one of the greatest to ever step foot on the floor. “Steph is Steph, you know.

When the Golden State Warriors needed a bucket to stop a 14-2 Boston Celtics run in the opening minutes of Game 6 of the NBA Finals, it was Andrew Wiggins ...

None of his old demons can hurt him in California. Bad at making tough shots? Simply slot yourself next to two of the greatest shooters ever, and stumble into ...

He may not have the natural team defense instincts of Green or Marcus Smart, but Wiggins is still an astounding mover in space. This seemed to be the precise series where Wiggins realized he could impose his body on the game even when his shot wasn’t falling. When asked how he did it, he said, “I want to win.” This is far from the default state for Wiggins, so hopefully the Warriors can keep convincing him that his hops are best spent dominating the glass. Wiggins’s success is less a matter of honing discrete new skills as it is getting shipped to one of the healthiest environments in the NBA and buying all the way in—and he surely deserves credit for buying in, given how many players let their pride and pedigree get in the way of productive seasons in diminished roles. (If there exists a hypnotist in Southern California who could trick Russell Westbrook into performing any recognizable basketball-playing motion when the basketball is not in his hands, the Lakers might have tasted the playoffs.) Land on a team fueled by the aggregate wisdom of many good decisions, rather than the transcendent judgment of any one guy.