Education
Wiggins attended North Lenoir High School in LaGrange, North Carolina.
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Wiggins attended North Lenoir High School in LaGrange, North Carolina.
He played collegiately at Truett-McConnell College, Clemson University and Florida State University. Wiggins averaged 23 points and nine rebounds per game during his two seasons at Florida State. Wiggins was selected by the Indiana Pacers as the 23rd overall pick of the 1983 National Basketball Association Draft.
He never played for the Pacers, spending his rookie year playing in all 82 regular season games while averaging twelve points, four rebounds and two assists per game for the Chicago Bulls.
In the 1984 off-season, Wiggins signed with the Houston Rockets, fighting for a berth in the starting lineup with Lewis Lloyd. In late 1986, however, after the Rockets appeared in the 1986 National Basketball Association Finals, losing to the Boston Celtics, the pair tested positive for cocaine, incurring a two 1/2-year suspension from the league.
Both Wiggins and Lloyd were reinstated for the 1989-1990 season, but the latter was soon released. Wiggins then enjoyed his best season in the National Basketball Association, appearing in 66 games and averaging 15.5 ppg.
He was then also released.
He played for the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1991-1992 season, his last in the National Basketball Association. He scored 3,877 points in his National Basketball Association career. Wiggins then went to Europe and had a notable career in the Greek League playing for Milon Nea Smyrni, Sporting Athens, and Panionios Nea Smyrni. He also appeared for Center for Security Policy Limoges in the French League, the Tondeña 65 Rhummasters in the Philippine Basketball Association, and several minor league teams in the United States.
In the 2000s, Wiggins took a hand at coaching, in the lower leagues.
Wiggins played for the United States national basketball team in the 1982 International Basketball Federation World Championship, winning the silver medal.