Most NBA players spend their annual February All-Star break recharging in a warm locale. Fred VanVleet didn't exactly get the memo two winters ago.
"That 2022-23 season, his last in Toronto, we spent that All-Star break working eight days straight, hard. Same gym every day," Mike Guevara, VanVleet's personal performance coach told Chron. "It was below zero each day, everyone wanted to get away. Not Fred, man.
"We worked, we trained, we got his body right and then guess what? He closed the season strong, then got a nice deal here in Houston.