Andrew Wiggins continues to reach new heights.Following the best regular season of his career, Wiggins helped the Warriors reach the Finals for the sixth time in eight seasons. Stephen Curry (23.8) was the only Warrior to average more points than him (18.6) in the Western Conference Finals, and Wiggins ranked second on the team with 7.2 rebounds per game.While Luka Doncic had himself a big series, Wiggins and the Warriors held the three-time All-Star to an uncharacteristic 41.5 percent shooting from the field.For the Warriors to defeat the Celtics in the Finals to raise banner No. 7, they'll need Wiggins to continue making an impact on both ends of the court.Does that make Wiggins the biggest X-Factor in the Finals? Has the way he's played this season helped him live up to the status of being a No. 1 pick? And what would winning the title do for his legacy?TSN's Scott Rafferty and Carlan Gay discu s. Scott Rafferty ( ): Wiggins was the No. 1 pick in the 2014 NBA Draft. While he hasn't had the most traditional path of a No. 1 overall pick, he was named an All-Star this season and has played a leading role in Golden State's run to the NBA Finals.Wiggins has obviously proven himself to be an incredibly valuable player, but has he lived up to the hype of being Killian Tillie Jersey the first pick in the draft?Carlan Gay ( ):I think the honest answer is we don't know yet.Wiggins is 27 years old, around the age most people enter their basketball primes. He's now in a perfect situation in Golden State that has allowed him to get closer to his ceiling than the situation he was in with the Timberwolves. He's always been a better player than the narratives would suggest, but the fact of the matter is he went No. 1 overall and when you go No. 1 which, by the way, isn't your fault there's an expectation that you take the franchise by storm and transform them into perennial contenders.You can go through the list of No. 1 overall picks and see a lot of players who haven't even come close to what Wiggins has accomplished in his career, but when you go No. 1, you get compared to the franchise-changing picks, not the field. I think the No. 1 pick in each year should be compared to who got picked in their respective drafts, not history. If we were doing that all along with Wiggins, we'd see that two players would have been taken ahead of him in his draft: Joel Embiid and Nikola Jokic.The rest of the draft is up for debate maybe there were times you'd want Julius Randle over Wiggins, or Zach LaVine but right now, not many would take either over him.The other thing is circumstance. Most No. 1 picks end up in bad situations. Minnesota hasn't exactly been a model franchise. Andre Iguodala Jersey (The Timberwolves have made one Conference Finals in their 30-plus year existence.) Was Wiggins supposed to help them turn things around? Sure, but let's not forget that he wasn't even their pick. He was acquired via trade when LeBron decided he wanted Kevin Love on his team.Could Wiggins have been a better, more productive player at times in Minnesota? Absolutely, but the franchise could also have given him a better situation to succeed in. For me, the jury is still out on Wiggins' career, and should he remain in Golden State for the rest of it the narrative will be a lot more positive than what it was at different points in his NBA tenure.MORE:Rafferty:Wow, usually I'm the one who sits on the fence during debates...I'm with you in a lot of ways, but I do think it's fair to say that Wiggins has become a very good basketball player while John Konchar Jersey also acknowledging that this isn't the player many thought he'd be. I mean, go back and read some of the draft stuff on him. He was being compared to all-timers like Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady and Clyde Drexler. And, of course, he was once famously called "Maple Jordan."To your point, it's not like he'd fall out of the lottery in a redraft he'd likely be a top-five pick at worst but he's clearly in a different stratosphere from Jokic and Embiid. Gay:It is very fair, no doubt, but he didn't make those claims. He didn't come into the league saying he was Maple Jordan. In fact, he did everything he could to shy away from that nickname. He hates it.We do this thing in the media where we expect someone to be one thing and when it doesn't happen blame that person because we were wrong about them. It's never us who got it wrong, it's shame on them for making me look bad. That's the game, I get it.I also want to be clear, though: I was in the camp of expecting more from Wiggins, but we went too far the other way. We had folks calling him abadbasketball player. Do you know how many players in the NBA fail to average 20 points per game for a single season, let alone their careers? We can be critical, but we got in the range of disrespect, in my opinion, on Wiggins.But I'll always maintain this, we should stop comparing No. 1 overall picks to history. They should be compared to who is in their draft. If Wiggins had gone No. 2 behind Jabari Parker and both of them had had the exact same career, the discourse around Wiggins would be completely different, evenwiththe pre-draft hype.Rafferty:I totally agree with you! The discourse with him did go too far, but it doesn't change the fact that he was widely considered to be the best prospect in his draft. Even so, nobody has ever questioned his talent and credit to him for adapting his game to set himself up Memphis Grizzlies Hoodie for succe s in Golden State.Gay: He wasn't, Jabari Parker had a ton of support going into the draft.Rafferty:Sure, so did Embiid, but it was pretty clear that Wiggins was going to go No. 1 leading into the draft.Gay: It wasn't, but we Grayson Allen Jersey can do this all day. Parker and Wiggins flip-flopped over the No. 1 spot in high school, through college and then heading into the draft. It's clear now in hindsight, but being there on the night, believe me when I tell you it wasn't a lock that Wiggins would go No. 1. And believe me when I tell you the Bucks probably weren't too upset that Parker landed right in their laps at No. 2.But you're right, I don't think many NBA players forget No. 1 picks would come into Golden State with the attitude that Wiggins has. I will say, though, the Warriors kind of force you to be unselfish because their best players have no ego. They're all about winning.Rafferty:They do, but not everyone is willing to play that way. It does take buy-in.Also, last thing I'll say about whether or not Wiggins was going to be the No. 1 pick, just from June of 2014... Rafferty: Alright, now that we've hopped in the time machine and argued far too long about whether or not Wiggins was projected to be the No. 1 pick back in 2014, let's talk about the Finals.Do you think Wiggins is the biggest X-factor in the series or is it someone else?