Jimmer Fredette is back in the NBA, and the sharpshooter is thankful the Phoenix Suns are giving him another chance to live out his dream and play against the best basketball players in the world.
Fredette was a college basketball star at BYU and many thought he was going to have a successful career in the pros.
The guard, though, was never able to live up to the hype and was out of the league by the end of the 2016 season.
Now back in the NBA with the Suns, Jimmer Fredette says he “always hoped for” another chance in the NBA.
“I always hoped for it. I always hoped for it. That was the goal — to be able to do that after this season,” Fredette said, via Eric Walden of The Salt Lake Tribune. “I had it in my mind that it was gonna happen — you gotta speak things into existence sometimes if you want ’em to happen.
“But obviously, when a team does call, you never know what’s gonna happen, you always take it slow at first — you never get your hopes up too much. But once you get there and you sign on the dotted line, then you can get excited and ready to go.”
Fredette recently finished playing for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association. He averaged a league-leading 36.9 points per game for Shanghai.
Jimmer will play in his second game with the Suns on Monday against the Utah Jazz.
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