You’d be forgiven for having flashbacks to 2011 while watching Jimmer Fredette light up The Basketball Tournament on ESPN and harkening back to when he took college basketball by storm and won the Naismith Award.
The No. 10 overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, Fredette tallied just four NBA seasons, failing to torch defenses as he once did for the BYU Cougars. But Fredette has found his groove of late, averaging 36.8 points per game for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association in 2017–18, and pouring in 32 in Team Fredette’s round one victory of TBT on July 21.