Oklahoma City Thunder Receive: G/F Andrew Wiggins

Golden State Warriors Receive: C Derrick Favors, F Kenrich Williams, 2022 First Round Pick (via LAC), 2022 Second Round Pick

Andrew Wiggins has been viewed as the biggest trade piece for the Golden State Warriors for the last year or so. The COVID-19 vaccine mandate situation intensified those talks but since he received the vaccination, those have since calmed.

Wiggins would be the centerpiece of this deal and Golden State would be able to get a return. Moving on from Wiggins’ contract to a team like the Oklahoma City Thunder with massive cap space to operate with would sharply reduce the obscene luxury tax payments Golden State faces.

With Thompson returning, there is little room for Wiggins and it would benefit the Warriors more to get a return in any potential trade.

Golden State would get a first-round pick back and that is worth it immediately. The pick would be coming from the Los Angeles Clippers in 2022. The Warriors would also land Derrick Favors and Kenrick Williams, along with another pick in next year’s draft.

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For the Thunder, the team needs to get above the salary cap floor and already has more assets than it knows how to deal with. Oklahoma City could use Wiggins’ deal as a salary matching mechanism to add a more attractive asset ahead of the deadline.

Let’s take a closer look and see how this NBA trade scenario centered around Andrew Wiggins would impact both the Golden State Warriors and Oklahoma City Thunder.