Andrew Wiggins

Andrew Christian Wiggins (born February 23, 1995) is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

In his 2010–11 sophomore year, he led the school's AAAA basketball team to a 44–1 record, en route to winning the Ontario provincial championship.

In the championship game, he scored 25 points and grabbed 13 rebounds, amid chants of "Over-rated!"

from the crowd.

In 2011, he transferred to Huntington Prep School in Huntington, West Virginia.

During his junior season, he averaged 24.2 points, 8.5 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 2.7 blocks per game.

As a senior, he averaged 23.4 points, 11.2 rebounds, 2.6 blocks, and 2.5 assists per game.

On February 7, 2013, after an article in Sports Illustrated criticized Canadian basketball and Wiggins' work ethic, he responded later that day, scoring 57 points in a 111–59 win over Marietta College.

Wiggins was named the 2013 Naismith Prep Player of the Year on February 25.

He was named the 2013 Gatorade National Player of the Year on March 28 as the nation's top high school player.

He was the first Canadian player to be so named.

In May 2013, he was named Mr. Basketball USA.

He was ranked number one high school basketball player by SLAM magazine.

In April 2013, Wiggins played in the Jordan Brand Classic All-American game in Brooklyn.

He scored 19 points and tied Julius Randle for lead scorer for the East team.

Wiggins committed to Kansas on May 14, 2013.

Before the announcement, he had narrowed his choices to Florida State, Kentucky, Kansas and North Carolina.

Wiggins joined the Kansas team on June 19, 2013.

He was selected with the first overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers after one year of college basketball with the Kansas Jayhawks.

Wiggins grew up in Canada before attending his last two years of high school in the United States, where he was named a McDonald's All-American.

At Kansas, he was named a second-team consensus All-American before becoming the second Canadian to be selected No. 1 overall in an NBA draft.

After a preseason trade to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Wiggins earned NBA Rookie of the Year honors for the 2014–15 season.

Wiggins had been rated as the top prospect for 2014, but announced in October 2012 that he would officially reclassify into his original high school class of 2013, after having repeated a grade in middle school.

He needed just one remaining credit in English to graduate from Huntington Prep.

He was immediately placed ahead of the previous number one prospect, Jabari Parker, by ESPN.

On January 13, 2014, Wiggins scored 17 points and collected 19 rebounds in a 77–70 victory over Iowa State, becoming only the second freshman in the last 15 years (along with Michael Kidd-Gilchrist) to amass those numbers in a win against a ranked opponent.

Wiggins averaged 17.1 points per game (ppg), 5.9 rebounds per game (rpg), and made 34.1% of his three-point field goals in his freshman year at Kansas.

On January 22, 2014, Wiggins was named a Top 25 Finalist for the John R. Wooden Men's Player of the Year award by the Los Angeles Athletic Club.

On February 28, he was named one of the 10 semi-finalists for Naismith College Player of the Year.

After five and a half seasons with Minnesota, he was traded to Golden State in 2020.

In 2022, Wiggins won his first NBA championship and was selected for his first NBA All-Star game, and was named a Western Conference starter.

He has also been a member of the Canadian national team.

Wiggins was born in Toronto, Ontario and raised in the nearby Vaughan portion of Thornhill, Ontario.

He is the son of former NBA player Mitchell Wiggins, an American, and former Olympic track and field sprinter Marita Payne-Wiggins, a Canadian who is originally from Barbados.

His parents met as student athletes at Florida State University.

He attended elementary school at Glen Shields Public School, and high school at Vaughan Secondary School.

Wiggins began playing organized basketball when he was nine, joining an under-10 team in Toronto.

At the time, he was 5ft 7in.

He dunked a basketball for the first time when he was 13, and a year later, he grew to 6ft 6in and shattered a glass backboard after dunking on a rim at the Dufferin Clark Community Centre in Vaughan.

Wiggins attended Vaughan Secondary School in Vaughan for his first two years of high school.