Warriors’ Andrew Wiggins misses Team Canada training camp, won’t play at Olympics for medical reasons WPXI [Video]

Golden State Warriors forward Andrew Wiggins has missed the start of the Canadian national men’s basketball team training camp on Friday. Wiggins, who was born and raised in the Toronto area, was named to the Team Canada training camp roster earlier in June, but will miss the Olympics due to medical reasons, according to The Athletic.

However, the reasons behind Wiggins’s absence do not seem as settled for the Canadian team. During media availability Friday, Canadian general manager Rowan Barrett said that the Warriors told him a few days before camp that Wiggins would not be available.

A Golden State spokesperson told The Athletic that it was a mutual decision between Wiggins and the team based on medical reasons. But Barrett implied that Golden State did not clarify a reason when informing him of Wiggins’s unavailability, and believed that the Warriors were blocking Wiggins from joining.

“Well, for us, Andrew was fine,” Barrett said, per The Athletic. …