{"id":100240,"date":"2022-10-18T03:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/why-donte-divincenzo-glad-andrew-wiggins-is-his-warriors-teammate\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T03:44:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T03:44:00","slug":"why-donte-divincenzo-glad-andrew-wiggins-is-his-warriors-teammate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/why-donte-divincenzo-glad-andrew-wiggins-is-his-warriors-teammate\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Donte DiVincenzo &#8216;glad&#8217; Andrew Wiggins is his Warriors teammate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Winning a championship has changed Andrew Wiggins&#8217; demeanor &#8212; just ask his new teammate Donte DiVincenzo.<\/p>\n<p>Following Warriors practice Monday, DiVincenzo shared with reporters just how much more confident the 27-year-old and the rest of the team have gotten. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think their confidence is going to be at an all-time high,&#8221; said DiVincenzo.  &#8220;I think that&#8217;s always the challenge; When you&#8217;re at the top, everyone&#8217;s trying to bring you down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old guard explained how Golden State is playing with a target on its back as the reigning champions, heading into the 2022-23 NBA season.  Regarding Wiggins, DiVincenzo thinks the Warriors&#8217; forward can have an even better season following his All-Star campaign last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; For him, I think it&#8217;s always that challenge of doing it again, night in and night out, which I think he&#8217;s capable of and I&#8217;m sure as hell glad he&#8217;s on my team now,&#8221; DiVincenzo told reporters.  &#8220;So that&#8217;s the challenge for him but he&#8217;s definitely up for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DiVincenzo is not the only one who thinks Wiggins can have an even better season this year.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with NBC Sports Bay Area&#8217;s Kerith Burke during Warriors Media Day in September, Wiggins revealed that along with winning another championship, his personal goal was to make an All-Defensive team this season. <\/p>\n<h5>RELATED: What Fraser believes newcomers DiVincenzo, Green bring to Dubs<\/h5>\n<p>Although his counting stats may have dropped across the board, his newfound tenacity in rebounding and defending the opponent&#8217;s best player more than makes up for it. <\/p>\n<p><!-- Ad Slot --><\/p>\n<p>With his confidence level sky-high, the possibilities for what Wiggins &#8212; and by extension DiVincenzo &#8212; and the Warriors can do this season are endless. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Download and follow the Dubs Talk Podcast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"230px\" src=\"https:\/\/art19.com\/shows\/316ce225-5694-403f-a724-adbf53d39c76\/episodes\/a28384ba-1374-46f0-9035-859f23d36b94\/embed\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script><\/p>\n<p>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)<\/p>\n<p>{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?<\/p>\n<p>n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};<\/p>\n<p>if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';<\/p>\n<p>n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;<\/p>\n<p>t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];<\/p>\n<p>s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',<\/p>\n<p>'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p>function getCookie(cname) {\n    let name = cname + \"=\";\n    let decodedCookie = decodeURIComponent(document.cookie);\n    let ca = decodedCookie.split(';');\n    for (let i = 0; i < ca.length; i++) {\n        let c = ca[i];\n        while (c.charAt(0) == ' ') {\n            c = c.substring(1);\n        }\n        if (c.indexOf(name) == 0) {\n            return c.substring(name.length, c.length);\n        }\n    }\n    return \"\";\n}\n\n\n  if (getCookie('usprivacy') === '1YYN') {\n    fbq('dataProcessingOptions', ['LDU'], 0, 0);\n  }\n  \n\nfbq('init', '674090812743125');\n\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winning a championship has changed Andrew Wiggins&#8217; demeanor &#8212; just ask his new teammate Donte DiVincenzo. Following Warriors practice Monday, DiVincenzo shared with reporters just how much more confident the 27-year-old and the rest of the team have gotten. &#8220;I think their confidence is going to be at an all-time high,&#8221; said DiVincenzo. &#8220;I think &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/why-donte-divincenzo-glad-andrew-wiggins-is-his-warriors-teammate\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Donte DiVincenzo &#8216;glad&#8217; Andrew Wiggins is his Warriors teammate<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1667,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/nba-free-agency-warriors-sign-donte-divincenzo\/","url_meta":{"origin":100240,"position":0},"title":"NBA free agency: Warriors sign Donte DiVincenzo","date":"July 2, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"On the second day of the 2022 NBA free agency period, the Golden State Warriors signed their first player from outside the organization: high-flying guard Donte DiVincenzo. 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