Andrew Wiggins has found the perfect home with the Golden State Warriors.
In his second full season with the franchise, Wiggins is averaging 18.7 points per game while shooting 49.1 percent from the field and a career-best 42.2 percent from 3-point range on over five attempts per game. In a gutsy win over the Boston Celtics, Wiggins continued his impressive play, finishing with 27 points while shooting 11-for-20 from the field and 5-for-7 from deep.
After the game, 2015 NBA Finals MVP Andre Iguodala had high praise when asked about his teammate's play over the last month.
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"Wiggins ain't been good the last month," Iguodala told reporters in Boston. "Wiggins been good like the last six years in the NBA."
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The 18-year veteran continued, adding context by saying "just think, the league is the league and you get on certain situations and your talent is seen more in certain situations than others. With Wiggs — we had a common teammate, Jimmy Butler.
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"Jimmy had nothing but amazing things to say about Wiggs and he really liked playing with Wiggs and that was all I needed to hear, to be honest, cause Jimmy doesn't like anybody, so when Jimmy said he liked Wiggs, I started looking at it kind of different."
While Iguodala and Butler were teammates with the Miami Heat last season, it's been four seasons since Wiggins and Butler were teammates as members of the Minnesota Timberwolves. That season was the last year in which the Timberwolves advanced to the NBA Playoffs, with Butler and Wiggins each averaging a team-high 15.8 points in five games.
Wiggins, who is in his eighth NBA season, scored his 10,000th career point last season. In an attempt to provide some perspective to Wiggins' career so far, Iguodala jumped the gun a bit, saying "I think Wiggs is the all-time [leading] Canadian scorer in the NBA? Best player out of Canada? I mean, that says a lot."
While Wiggins is the first – and only – Canadian-born player to score 10,000 points, Brooklyn Nets head coach Steve Nash, who was born in South Africa, scored north of 17,000 points in his Hall of Fame career and as the lone Canadian on the NBA's 75th Anniversary Team, still holds the title as the NBA's best player out of Canada.
To Iguodala's point, Wiggins' talent at just 26 years of age suggests that he can one day surpass Nash's total for all-time scoring leader, if nothing else.
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