Jimmer Fredette is back on a basketball court, but his Team USA squad could use a little more JimmerMania.
The United States’ 3x3 squad, led by the former BYU star, has lost its first two games in Olympic play — but Fredette’s star power remains.
He’s pretty much a normal human — married, has three young children, he’s living a good life, albeit one that didn’t turn out basketball-wise the way he and so many BYU fans imagined it would. It was far from just the locals who took notice. Everyone was in the Jimmer pool. Songs were being written about him. Videos were being made. I was in a sports bar in Denver once, and when somebody on an NBA team hit a game-winning 30-foot shot, a group of guys huddled in front of the TV started shouting, “Jimmer! Jimmer!”
“There are athletes who get recognized in public, and there are athletes who literally stop traffic. Even a decade removed from the height of his fame as a college basketball star, Jimmer Fredette is among the latter.
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