For the first time this season, Wiggins Island reemerged in the NBA’s internet archipelago.
A longtime joke among Warriors fans that dates back to 2021, Wiggins Island is Dubs fans’ version of Revis Island — a nicknamed earned by longtime shutdown New York Jets cornerback Darrelle Revis, who repeatedly marooned the offensive games of NFL wideouts in the late 2000s and early 2010s. Wiggins similarly stranded the efficiencies of opponents’ best players last postseason (he made Luka Doncic’s life hell) en route to an NBA title for the Dubs.
The joke — and accompanying hilarious Photoshop of De’Aaron Fox arriving via boat to an island imprinted with Wiggins’ face — started to regain social steam this week as the dust settled on Golden State’s Game 7 victory over the Sacramento Kings.