Kerr updates Wiggins’ status before the Warriors’ final three preseason games originally aired on NBC Sports Bay Area
Coach Steve Kerr gets Andrew Wiggins back on track as the Warriors’ preseason schedule comes to a close.
Kerr explained to reporters after Friday night’s 109-106 win over the Sacramento Kings that Wiggins is still recovering from an illness but will return soon.
“Wiggs will be back next week,” Kerr said. “He won’t play on Sunday [against the Detroit Pistons]but it’s important to get him back on the ground. We’ll see [how the lineup looks] when we get there. We’ll play Sunday’s game and regroup, and we’ll have a good week of practice and a couple of games, and we’ll go from there.”
So Wiggins could play in Tuesday’s preseason game against the Los Angeles Lakers in Las Vegas. The Warriors and Lakers meet again on Friday in the season finale at Chase Center.
Wiggins has missed the entire preseason so far, but Kerr and Co. hoping he can get back into shape in time for the Oct. 23 season opener against the Portland Trail Blazers.
Now that Klay Thompson is a Dallas Maverick, the Warriors are in desperate need of a second scoring option behind Steph Curry, a role that Wiggins is capable of assuming he can stay healthy.
Wiggins has shown brilliance since coming to the Bay in 2020, but he has also struggled with consistency. After his 2021-2022 All-Star season that gave the Warriors another NBA championship, Wiggins has regressed considerably, averaging just 14.6 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game in the next two seasons. The scoring average is well below his career mark of 18.2 points, and he has also missed 56 games in that time.
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