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Ryan Saunders can’t remember the game. First week of the season, he thinks. The play, though—that sticks with him. Andrew Wiggins, ball in his hands, 18-feet from the basket. For years, the end result of that scenario would have been a mid-range jump shot, and given Wiggins history—type “Andrew Wiggins” and “inefficient” into a search engine and get ready to fall down a rabbit hole of web posts loaded with ugly statistics—it likely would have missed.
Only Wiggins didn’t shoot. He took two dribbles back, the tips of his sneakers floating behind the three-point line, and fired up a shot.