FILE – Jimmer Fredette speaks throughout an interview after observe for the USA Basketball 3×3 nationwide crew, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022, in Miami Lakes, Fla. (AP Picture/Lynne Sladky, File)
By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer
Jimmer Fredette, the 2011 Related Press males’s faculty basketball participant of the 12 months at BYU who went on to turn out to be an NBA lottery decide after which performed for the U.S. in 3×3 eventually 12 months’s Paris Olympics, introduced his retirement on Wednesday.
Fredette, 36, was the No. 10 decide by Milwaukee in that 2011 draft. He spent components of six seasons within the NBA with Sacramento, New Orleans, Chicago, Phoenix and New York. He additionally performed professionally in China and Greece, profitable the MVP award within the Chinese language Basketball Affiliation in 2017.
The native of Glens Falls, New York, had video games of 70 and 75 factors throughout his profession in China, together with one the place he scored 60 factors after halftime. He averaged 28.9 factors per sport for BYU within the 2010-11 faculty season, main the nation on his technique to the AP participant of the 12 months award. And in 2023, he was USA Basketball’s 3×3 male athlete of the 12 months.
“Basketball has taken me throughout this world: from Glens Falls NY, to BYU, the NBA, China, Greece, and even Workforce USA on the Olympics!” Fredette wrote in a social media submit. “This sport and my love for it has formed me into the individual I’m immediately and for that I’m perpetually grateful. So many recollections and superb moments. It wasn’t at all times simple, however it was at all times price it! The subsequent journey begins now.”
The most effective years of his taking part in profession might have been his ultimate ones, when he turned his consideration to 3×3. Fredette was a star in that fast-paced, halfcourt-game sport for the U.S., serving to the Individuals win gold medals on the 2022 FIBA 3×3 AmeriCup and 2023 Pan American Video games together with a silver on the 2023 FIBA World Cup.
He entered the Paris Olympics because the top-ranked 3×3 males’s participant on the planet, with the Individuals ranked No. 2 worldwide. He suffered an adductor muscle damage early within the match and the U.S. by rule couldn’t change him on its four-man roster for the Paris Video games, so the Individuals needed to play the remainder of the Olympics with three gamers and no substitutes.
“I owe plenty of who I’m immediately to this sport and it’s not simple to say goodbye as a participant,” Fredette wrote. “However the time has come.”
