Yes, worse than when he was a 19-year-old rookie. The most alarming part? Wiggins is actually getting worse at basketball with each passing year.Įvery single one of Wiggins’ Big 5 advanced stats-PER, True Shooting, Win Shares/48, Box Plus/Minus, and VORP-is the absolute worst of his entire career. (incidentally, Collin Sexton‘s -1.9 VORP nearly laps the field and ranks fourth-worst all-time in VORP for players who played at least 2,000 minutes.)Īll of this is well-worn territory for anyone who’s been paying attention. Only Melo, Devin Booker, and Harrison Barnes join him on that ignominious list.Įxpanding the sample out to players with at least 2,000 minutes and including this year (Wiggins has played 2,263 minutes through games of March 26), here are Wiggins’ ranks:Ĥ87th, 495th, 499th, 505th, and 508th…out of 516. What’s more, in a four-year stretch, there are seven instances where a player played at least 2500 minutes and posted a negative Value Over Replacement Player.Īndrew Wiggins has four of them. Here’s where Wiggins’ first four seasons in the league rank in VORP among all players with at least 2500 minutes in those years:ġ35th, 137th, 138th, and 139th out of 140-only Carmelo Anthony‘s wretched 2017-18 campaign ranks worse. Wiggins routinely ranks among the absolute most head-scratching wastes of minutes in the league.Ĭonsider the following benchmarks: 2,500 minutes played (or about 32 minutes a game over an 82-game season). He had a higher scoring average (19.7) in Minnesota but only made 33.2 percent of his attempts behind the arc.Andrew Wiggins is a favorite bugbear of this here site, as dunking on his atrocious advanced stats and pointing out that he’s the biggest reason the Minnesota Timberwolves are hot garbage that hit their peak with a 47-win season and an 8 seed only because they rented Jimmy Butler is fruit so low-hanging that you’d think it was a potato. The 26-year-old is averaging 18.6 points per game and shooting 32.7 percent from three-point range in 94 games with the team. Wiggins has also been a more efficient scorer with the Warriors.
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His biggest deficiency was on the defensive end of the court, where he allowed opponents to shoot at least 45 percent from the field in each of his first six seasons, per NBA Advanced Stats (h/t Marcus White of NBC Sports Bay Area).ĭuring the 2020-21 campaign, his first full year with Golden State, Wiggins had more defensive win shares (2.7) in 71 games played than he did in the previous two years combined (2.4), per Basketball Reference.
1 pick in the 2014 NBA draft failed to live up to that potential with the Timberwolves. Stephen Curry was limited to five games with a broken bone in his left hand. The marriage between Russell and Golden State deteriorated quickly, due in part to other injuries on the roster. Russell, who was coming off an All-Star appearance in 2018-19, was originally signed to help offset the loss of Durant and provide an additional scorer with Klay Thompson out for the year while rehabbing his torn ACL. The Wiggins trade came just seven months after the Warriors acquired Russell as part of a sign-and-trade deal with the Nets for Kevin Durant. Slater was making a point about how the Warriors wouldn't include either Kuminga or Wiseman in a potential trade to acquire Ben Simmons. 3 episode of the HoopsHype podcast that Lacob "values Kuminga and Wiseman and their futures more than other teams do right now." Golden State has been high on Kuminga's potential, with Anthony Slater of The Athletic saying on a Nov. The 19-year-old only appeared in five games before being assigned to the Santa Cruz Warriors of the G League, along with fellow first-round rookie Moses Moody, last week.
They used it to select Jonathan Kuminga at No. The first-round pick turned out to be valuable for the Warriors, which may also explain Lacob's enthusiasm. Golden State acquired Wiggins, as well as 2021 first- and second-round draft picks, from the Minnesota Timberwolves in exchange for D’Angelo Russell, Jacob Evans and Omari Spellman. Iguodala was named MVP of the 2015 NBA Finals when Golden State defeated the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games. The Warriors got Andre Iguodala in a three-team sign-and-trade with the Denver Nuggets and Utah Jazz in July 2013.
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