I know it's difficult to call because of injuries and such, but where do you guys think Wiggins tops out as a player?
Kid drops 30 on his 20th birthday, giving him his third 30-point scoring game of the season. That's three more 30-point games than all the other rookies combined this year... just hand him the ROY now.
Digging even further, Wiggins has more 20-point games (18) than the rest of the entire rookie class combined (14) [Bogdanovic - 2, Payton - 1, Parker - 2, McDaniels - 1, Mirotic - 2, LaVine - 2, Smart - 1, Clarkson - 1, Galloway - 1, Wear - 1]. Not bad for a guy years away from having an effective offensive game.
22. Andrew Wiggins
Whenever I finally write The Book of Basketball 2.0: A Shameless Excuse to Regurgitate Material That You’ve Already Read for More Money, you know that I’m blowing out the “What If?” chapter and adding “What if new Cleveland GM LeBron James had just been patient and waited a few months to make sure Wiggins wasn’t his short-term Scottie Pippen and long-term Perimeter Stud In Waiting before flipping such a monster asset for Kevin Love when that deal would have still been sitting there in January?” Only the ranking remains in question. I love Wiggins. He’s a sure thing.
R/NBA recently posted the best Wiggins stat: He has more 30-point games (3-to-0) and more 20-point games (18-to-14) than the rest of 2014’s rookie class combined.
Sums up my feelings as well.Man....
I think this trade, eventually, will be seen as a win-win for both sides. It's hard to judge a trade off one year, but we're not exactly "hurting" really either.
Kevin Love to me, is still clearly the better player. And you must remember, if we kept Wiggins, we'd have a front line of Tristan and Mozzy.
Even if Love isn't himself right now, I don't think that front line would be good enough to win a title.
Even if Kevin Love just ends up being a stretch 4, which is basically all he really is right now, that's still very pivotal for Kyrie and 'Bron.
And Wiggins would not be as productive if he was on this team.
Given that we've looked like the best team in the NBA for the past month and a half and just bulldozed the Warriors, I'm decidedly okay with the trade right now. So long as Love re-signs with us this summer or opts in and re-signs next summer, I doubt we'll have much reason to regret this while we're contending for titles the next half decade.
Personally, if we just win one fucking title, this trade was worth it one hundred times out of one hundred. I don't give a fuck if Wiggins goes on to be the best player of all time (no chance of this happening, but just saying). One title and it was all worth it.