All right, welcome to Locked-on Warriors, your podcast on all things Golden State Warriors.

I'm Wes Goldberg.

And on today's Monday edition, we have our Media Day takeaways, including why the Warriors are optimistic that Andrew Wiggins will be ready for the start of the regular season.

That's all coming up next.

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The latest on Clay Thompson's eventual return coming up later in the episode, plus an update on where the Warriors stand regarding the 15th spot on the

roster and maybe some potential trades down the line. But at first, I wanted to talk about the

latest on Andrew Wayans, who is making headlines now because he's not getting vaccinated

or has not been vaccinated. And that's put his availability for Golden State in jeopardy,

because San Francisco, starting October 13th, is going to implement a rule that says,

hey, if you're not vaccinated, you cannot participate in events such as, and many other things,

but including playing for a professional basketball team indoors.

And so Andrew Wiggins, who months and months and months ago when the vaccine was first

came out and made available, said that he was not going to get the vaccine unless he was forced

to get it.

And then over the weekend, his appeal to the NBA that he did not want to get the vaccine

for religious purposes was rejected.

And so now we're at a situation where Andrew Wiggins is kind of vet his last resort.

This is the point where he is being forced to get the vaccine in order to play.

Asked about this on Media Day.

Bob Myers went first. Steve Kerr went after. Both echoed

the same sentiment that they expect Andrew Wiggins and their full complement of players to be available

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