{"id":95636,"date":"2024-09-13T17:04:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T21:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=95636"},"modified":"2024-09-13T17:04:28","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T21:04:28","slug":"key-warriors-players-father-passes-away-after-battle-with-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/09\/13\/key-warriors-players-father-passes-away-after-battle-with-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Warriors Player\u2019s Father Passes Away After Battle With Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wiggimi01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mitchell Wiggins<\/a>, the father of Golden State Warriors wing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wiggian01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew Wiggins<\/a>, has passed away at the age of 64.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Condolences to Andrew Wiggins and his family on the passing of his Father, Mitchell Wiggins.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd RIP Mitchell Wiggins <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kg5EuILC50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/Kg5EuILC50<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/warriorsworld\/status\/1834680781417201744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>A six-year NBA veteran, Wiggins played for the Chicago Bulls, Houston Rockets, and Philadelphia 76ers after being selected 23rd overall in the 1983 NBA Draft. In that time, he averaged 10.0 points per game, posting a career-high 15.5 points per game with the Rockets in 1989-90.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Mitchell Wiggins, father of Andrew Wiggins, came off the bench for the Rockets in Game 5 of the 1986 <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAFinals?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NBAFinals<\/a> against Boston and helped lead Houston to victory with 16 PTS and 7 REB! <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBAVault?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NBAVault<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NBA75?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NBA75<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2neSjzIKge\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/2neSjzIKge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA History (@NBAHistory) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAHistory\/status\/1536423164598697984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In 1992, Wiggins played for Team USA in the FIBA World Cup, helping the U.S. men\u2019s national team win silver.<\/p>\n<h2>Warriors\u2019 Andrew Wiggins\u2019s Father Passes Away After Battle With Illness<\/h2>\n<p>On Wednesday, Wiggins\u2019s daughter Angelica posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/angeyw\/3455872635193275746\/?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&amp;igsh=MXQ1dHF4Z3BrcGF2NA%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">picture of him on Instagram<\/a> with the caption: \u201cRest easy. You\u2019ll forever be missed. I love you forever Daddy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, she nor Wiggins\u2019s youngest son may not have been surprised by the news. Indeed, Wiggins missed a number of the Warriors\u2019 games over the past two seasons for personal reasons. In Apr. 2023, The Athletic insider Shams Charania reported that the source of his consternation was his father\u2019s poor health.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Golden State&#8217;s Andrew Wiggins plans to attend Warriors-Thunder on Tuesday. The reason for Wiggins&#8217; leave of absence since mid-February is that his father, Mitchell Wiggins, has been dealing with a serious medical situation, sources close to the situation say. \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1642945756255453188?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Then, in March, he <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/03\/01\/warriors-starter-steps-away-from-team-indefinitely\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">stepped away from the team<\/a> indefinitely. This summer, he was forced to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/08\/16\/nba-champion-andrew-wiggins-cancels-china-trip-due-to-family-reasons\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">cut his China trip short<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it has not been disclosed what medical issue that Wiggins was ailing from. Nonetheless, he leaves behind daughters Angelica, Stephanie and Taya; sons Andrew, Mitchell, and Nick; and wife Marita Payne-Wiggins. Since the news broke, there has been an outpouring of support for the Wiggins family amid the tragic loss of their family patriarch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Wiggins, the father of Golden State Warriors wing Andrew Wiggins, has passed away at the age of 64. Condolences to Andrew Wiggins and his family on the passing of his Father, Mitchell Wiggins. \ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffd RIP Mitchell Wiggins pic.twitter.com\/Kg5EuILC50 \u2014 warriorsworld (@warriorsworld) September 13, 2024 A six-year NBA veteran, Wiggins played for the Chicago Bulls, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":95639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,1608,8,31,62,3,13],"tags":[212,49589],"class_list":["post-95636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-warriors","category-basketball","category-bulls","category-rockets","category-nba","category-news","category-76ers","tag-andrew-wiggins","tag-mitchell-wiggins"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}