The Warriors' acquisition of Andrew Wiggins truly began months before the 2020 NBA trade deadline. This was a snow ball slowly rolling to completion.
How? It all goes back to Kevin Durant leaving the Dubs and signing with the Brooklyn Nets last offseason.
"We were hoping it was Brooklyn if [Durant] left," Warriors owner Joe Lacob said to NBC Sports Bay Area's Greg Papa on Monday night during Warriors Pregame Live. "And the reason is that we knew that D'Angelo [Russell] was a possibility in a sign-and-trade. That was really our only possibility of getting something back with Kevin Durant leaving.