Andrew Wiggins · TheSportsDB · Courtesy of TheSportsDB
OverviewAI-generated
Andrew Wiggins is a Canadian basketball player who plays as a small forward. Born on February 23, 1995, in Thornhill, he is the son of Mitchell Wiggins and Marita Payne, and has a sibling named Nick Wiggins. He attended the University of Kansas and began his professional work period in 2014. Wiggins stands 203 units tall and weighs 91 units. He has been drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers and has been a member of the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team, Golden State Warriors, Miami Heat, and Minnesota Timberwolves. He wears sport number 22 and participated in the 2015 FIBA Americas Championship.
Wiggins received the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. In addition to his athletic career, he is listed as an author with two works: *I Am Getting My Tonsils Out! (for Girls)* and *I Am Getting My Tonsils Out! (for Boys)*.
Synthesized by Vinony from 37 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- I Am Getting My Tonsils Out! (for Girls)
- I Am Getting My Tonsils Out! (for Boys)
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Group
- Origin
- Seattle
- Active from
- 1989-10-03
Discography
- Shitface1989
- Cherries1991
- Bad Drugs1994
- 99 Is Prime Time1994
- Bad Drugs1994
- Days In The Sun1995
- Cake With My Pal1995
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 19
- Total plays
- 29
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Andrew+Wiggins">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,950x
- Cytoscape: A Software Environment for Integrated Models of Biomolecular Interaction Networks
· 2003 · cited 45,735x
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,586x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,896x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,494x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Position
- Small forward
- League
- NBA
- Born
- ( 1995-02-23 ) February 23, 1995 (age 31) , Toronto, Ontario , Canada
- Listed height
- 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
- Listed weight
- 197 lb (89 kg)
- High school
- Vaughan ( Vaughan, Ontario ) Huntington Prep , ( Huntington, West Virginia )
- College
- Kansas (2013–2014)
- Nba draft
- 2014 : 1st round, 1st overall pick
- Drafted by
- Cleveland Cavaliers
- Playing career
- 2014–present
- 2014 2020
- Minnesota Timberwolves
- 2020 2025
- Golden State Warriors
- 2025 present
- Miami Heat
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- Miami Heat
- Position
- Small Forward
- Nationality
- Canada
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Christian
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Thornhill
- Father
- Mitchell Wiggins
- Mother
- Marita Payne
- Sibling
- Nick Wiggins
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Participant in
- 2015 FIBA Americas Championship
- Sport
- basketball
- Member of team
- Miami Heat
- Position played
- small forward
- Country for sport
- Canada
- Mass
- 91
- Image
- Andrew Wiggins Huntington (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 203
Show 7 more facts
- date of birth
- 1995-02-23
- Commons category
- Andrew Wiggins
- drafted by
- Cleveland Cavaliers
- sport number
- 22
- start of work period
- 2014-00-00
- social media followers
- 588506
- ethnic group
- Black Canadians
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Andrew Christian Wiggins (born February 23, 1995) is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was selected with the first overall pick in the 2014 NBA draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers after one year of college basketball with the Kansas Jayhawks.
Wiggins grew up in Canada before attending his last two years of high school in the United States, where he was named a McDonald's All-American. At Kansas, he was named a second-team consensus All-American before becoming the second Canadian to be selected No. 1 overall in an NBA draft. After a preseason trade to the Minnesota Timberwolves, Wiggins earned NBA Rookie of the Year honors for the 2014–15 season. After five-and-a-half seasons with Minnesota, he was traded to Golden State in 2020. In 2022, Wiggins won his first NBA championship and was selected for his first NBA All-Star game, and was named a Western Conference starter. He has also been a member of the Canadian national team.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Andrew Wiggins” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.