The NBA All-Star ballot is now in its ninth day, and Stephen Curry and Draymond Green will almost certainly add another All-Star title to their resumes, while the Golden State Warriors have recently been trying to help team midweight forward Andrew Wiggins pull the ballot, pushing him into Curry and Green's ranks.
While those who follow Wiggins, especially Warriors fans, will say that Wiggins' performances this season certainly deserve to be named an All-Star, the problem is that Wiggins' previous fame is so bad, his performances during his time with the Timberwolves have been too disappointing, and the label of high salary and low ability has almost ruined his career, so the idea of Wiggins being named an All-Star is really unacceptable to some people.
Regardless of whether his previous notoriety would have a bad impact on his all-Star selection, from the data alone, he is fully qualified to be an All-Star. First of all, the 2014 Shumoto driver has become a very good three-point shooter, one of only five players in the league who averages more than 18 points per game, and also shoots more than five three-pointers, and the three-point shooting rate is more than 40%, and the other four players are Zach Lavin, Fred VanVleet, Devin Booker and Carl Anthony Downs, and among these four players, perhaps VanVleet, will be selected as All-Stars.
Not only does Wiggins excel beyond the three-point line, he is one of only 11 players in the league to average more than 19 points per game and shoot more than 48.5 percent from the field, along with LeBron James, Kevin Durant, DeMar DeRozan, Jimmy Butler, Nikola Jokic, Anthony Davis, Ja Morant, Lavin and Towns, all 10 of whom would have been all-Stars if there had been no injury.
Wiggins is also a reliable defensive player, arguably the second most important defensive player in the warriors' first defensive team in the league, and he is one of only three players in the league to average more than 19 points per game while the defensive rating is below 102, the other two players are Curry and the young Cleveland Cavaliers guard Darius Garland.
While Wiggins' transformation began last season, he really began to gain outside recognition as the Warriors returned to the league number one this season, and while he now has better and more experienced teammates than he did when he was with the Timberwolves, he has indeed become a basketball player who can win games.
At present, there should be 8 players in the West who will lock up an All-Star spot, namely Curry, James, Jokic, Mitchell, Morant, Towns, Booker and Green, and there are still some variables in whether Thick Brow can play the All-Star due to injury. With 3 or 4 spots left, I feel Wiggins has plenty of opportunities to be selected. One of the good aspects for Wiggins is the lack of other forwards to choose from in the West, with Clippers flank twins Kowy Leonard and Paul George injured, Brandon Ingram at the bottom of the league, and players like Kristaps Porzingis, Bojan Bogdanovic and Jaren Jackson Jr. should not be ahead of Wiggins, so while some still have preconceived notions, Wiggins deserves to be named an All-Star this season.