Golden State Warriors’ Andrew Wiggins is vaccinated and will be available for all home games.
The debacle for the Golden State Warriors is now over. Andrew Wiggins is vaccinated against COVID-19 and will be available to play in all of Golden State’s home games at the Chase Center, as well as away games in New York City.
Not only has Wiggins made the decision to protect himself and others, but he’s also taken a lot of stress off of the Warriors. Golden State will no longer have to worry about navigating over half of the season with Andrew not in the lineup.
Andrew Wiggins is vaccinated and is eligible to play in Golden State Warriors’ home games at Chase Center
Due to a local mandate in San Francisco, those who are 12 and older must be vaccinated in order to attend large indoor events. Wiggins was the lone player on the Warriors’ roster that was unvaccinated.
Golden State’s Andrew Wiggins has been vaccinated and will be available for all games this season.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) October 3, 2021
Andrew submitted a religious exemption request to the NBA, but it was denied. All that was left for him to do was either get vaccinated or not be able to play in home games, or in away games against the Brooklyn Nets and New York Knicks.
Andrew Wiggins did his research with a calculator https://t.co/mkFOXpAuli
— Duncan Smith (@DuncanSmithNBA) October 3, 2021
Andrew Wiggins’ research was reading this tweet https://t.co/YoRbXxYrZX
— sreekar (@sreekyshooter) October 3, 2021
Howling at "It just so happens my research wrapped up right after media day."
— Trill Withers (@TylerIAm) October 3, 2021
The league will no longer have to withhold Wiggins’ pay for the games that he was going to miss if he remained unvaccinated.
Publicly and loudly talk bad about it. Then days later get the vaccine. The Andrew Wiggins story. https://t.co/bAk70w17Ak
— Quincy Avery (@QuincyAvery) October 3, 2021
The winner here is Andrew Wiggins. The winner of all vaccine mandates is the unvaccinated person who becomes vaccinated. https://t.co/gbbRDgUfc4
— Nathan Kalman-Lamb (cis) (@nkalamb.bsky.social) (@nkalamb) October 3, 2021
Andrew Wiggins: “it’s my religious right to not get the vaccine”
— Uncle Dee (@themrd81) October 3, 2021
The NBA: “that’s fine but you can’t play half the season and will lose 15mil”
Andrew Wiggins: “God knows my heart” pic.twitter.com/0sZrdxsy19
If Wiggins 3pt % drops, anti-vax twitter is gonna blame it on the vax and not 6+ years of shooting data
— #1 Point God Stan (@samesfandiari) October 3, 2021
Golden State will take on the Portland Trailblazers in a preseason game on Monday night and Wiggins is eligible to play. The question is now if players like Kyrie Irving, Bradley Beal and Jonathan Isaac will follow Andrew’s suit.