As the free agent market gets closer and closer, those with player options have made their decisions, and those with team options on their contracts are slowly determining their future. As one of the most failed teams of the past season, the Golden State Warriors, although they still don't have any major personnel to keep at the moment, almost everyone knows that this offseason, the Warriors will have a major roster change. Among them, Klay Thompson and Chris Paul are players who have gone in different directions from the Warriors on the bright side, and in addition to them, the other core of the Warriors cannot be said to have a stable future. Goodbye Warriors, leaving the team is finalized, feeling the cruelty of competitive sports, you end up being a victim.
According to the latest report from NBA reporter Doug Smith, sources have revealed that Andrew Wiggins, a Warriors forward from Canada, will be confirmed to miss the Paris Olympics. It's normal news that players are missing out from the Olympics, with some players wanting to improve themselves in the off-season, others wanting to relax, and others not wanting to take the risk of injury, all of which could lead to their withdrawal from the Olympics. But Wiggins is different, and according to the supplementary report, Wiggins' withdrawal from the Olympics is related to the Warriors' management, as the Warriors have taken a very tough stance on the players they intend to trade away this offseason, and Wiggins has been blocked from the Olympics as a result.
Although Slater, a reporter with the Warriors came out for the first time, saying that Wiggins' absence from the Olympics was a joint decision of the players and the team, and the Warriors hoped that Wiggins could stay healthy, which was a "medical decision". But it is clear that this claim is untenable, and not many people want to believe it. Because if he is healthy, Stephen Curry, as the core boss of the Warriors, should not compete in the Olympics. Of course, if you think about it from other angles, such as trading, then it is easy to understand. Canadian basketball general manager Rowan Barrett said directly in an interview that Wiggins' absence from the Olympics is completely an obstacle for the Warriors, and the Canadian men's basketball team has been communicating with Wiggins, and they know that Wiggins is eager to play for his country.
As a result, when the training camp for the Olympics was about to begin, the Canadian men's basketball team received a call from the Warriors and received the news that the Warriors would not let Wiggins play in the Olympics. In fact, it is clear to everyone that the Warriors' approach is to ensure that the Wiggins trade goes smoothly, because once a player is injured in any international tournament or training training, and it has not yet reached the point where he cannot get a medical examination, the opposing team will definitely take the injury factor into account, either lower the offer for the player, or simply call for a halt to the trade. In order to ensure that the trade went smoothly, the Warriors blocked Wiggins from participating in the Olympics, which caused a lot of fan outrage, but in other words, Wiggins and the Warriors parted ways, which is basically a foregone conclusion.
If Wiggins and the Warriors hadn't fallen out to the point of falling out, or if the Warriors were just circulating some normal trade rumors about Wiggins, then there would be no need for them to do that much. For example, if the rumors should be spread, the Warriors can find a trade if they should be looking for it, but the situation now is that the Warriors seem to be desperate to complete the trade, and they don't want to see any surprises happen, such as they found a good trade plan, only to be lost because Wiggins was preparing for the Olympics or was injured during the Olympics. Or because Wiggins had a terrible performance at the Olympics, affecting his trade value.
Even the Warriors didn't consider that if Wiggins did well at the Olympics, then his value could rise, and whether the Warriors traded or kept him, it would be a good ending. The Warriors' attitude is clearly that they have completely lost trust in Wiggins, and a trade is imperative. And after the Warriors prevented Wiggins from representing Canada at the Olympics, it became clear that the relationship between Wiggins and the Warriors was largely broken. In the words of the Canadian general manager, Wiggins was very eager for this opportunity to play for his country, but was stopped by the Warriors, and Wiggins was very frustrated.