Minnesota Timberwolves: Top 30 greatest players of all-time

• Four seasons with Timberwolves (2014-present)
• Averaging 19.7 points and 4.1 rebounds per game
• First-overall pick by Cleveland in 2014 draft, acquired in Kevin Love trade

Andrew Wiggins has been one of the most polarizing figures among hardcore NBA fans over the past four seasons.

Wiggins was (unfairly, of course) anointed Maple Jordan by basketball fans after the Toronto native dominated in high school at Huntington Prep in West Virginia. He was a one-and-done player at the University of Kansas, averaging 17.1 points and 5.9 rebounds per game in his lone season as a Jayhawk.

Upon being drafted first-overall by Cleveland in 2014, he was shipped to Minnesota in the wake of the Cavalier’s re-acquisition of LeBron James, who had pushed for the Cavs to acquire veterans to load up alongside The King. Coincidentally, Kevin Love reportedly had asked out of Minnesota, and Wolves boss Flip Saunders patiently waited until weeks after the draft before pulling off the blockbuster.

Wiggins scored his way to the Rookie of the Year award, putting up 16.9 points per game on a 16-win team in 2014-15. The next year, he upped his average to 20.7 per game, but saw his rebounding drop by a full board per contest — a two-year mini-preview of what the first four years of Wiggins’ career have looked like: one step forward, two steps back.

Year Three featured more of the same, only this time it was the outside shot that improved, to the tune of 35.6 percent from beyond the arc after hovering around the 30 percent mark in his first few seasons. But the defense slipped, and the distributing and rebounding stagnated.

In 2017-18, Wiggins had to adjust to a third-option (and sometimes, fourth option) role behind Jimmy Butler, Karl-Anthony Towns, and, at times, Jeff Teague. His numbers dipped across the board, the shooting regressed, and there were no meaningful steps forward.

All that said, Wiggins was still a Rookie of the Year award winner, and the prize that the Wolves received for trading away one of the best players in franchise history. And he’s still with the team, signing a mammoth extension in the fall of 2017.

The rest of Wiggins’ story has yet to be written, and he could still find his way much, much higher on this list. Only time will tell.