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On the second day of the Nike Global Challenge in Alexandria, VA, Andrew Wiggins is the first player in the gym for an 8 p.m. game between his Canadian team and China. He’s so early, in fact, there are still more than two minutes left in the preceding game between USA-East and Brazil. With time to burn, Wiggins parks his lanky frame in the doorway of the gym and watches wide-eyed as Brazil upsets the Americans.

In the same gym hours earlier, Wiggins put on a show that coaches from nearly every major college program—Coach Cal from Kentucky, Rick Pitino from Louisville and Roy Williams from UNC, to name a few—witnessed. He led Canada in an upset of the same USA-East squad that he’s now watching lose to Brazil. In that game, Wiggins scored 23 points, added 7 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 block and a steal in 39 minutes. He didn’t play perfectly, but the promise he showed was enough to reinforce what scouts already know: Andrew Wiggins is probably one of the most gifted prep players in North America, and he already possesses NBA-ready tools and physique.

What the college coaches and several NBA scouts in the gym don’t know about Andrew Wiggins is that he won’t be playing tonight. His shoes are tied and his jersey is tucked in, but he won’t check into the game.

To read the entire feature by Matt Caputo from Slam Magazine, click here.

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