Jimmer Fredette sets out for an Olympic gold medal 13 years after becoming a basketball legend
LAS VEGAS — There are athletes who get recognized in public, and there are athletes who literally stop traffic.
LAS VEGAS — There are athletes who get recognized in public, and there are athletes who literally stop traffic.
Even more than a decade removed from the height of his fame as a college basketball star, Jimmer Fredette is among the latter.
On a recent picture-perfect day in Marseille, France, Fredette decided to walk the one mile to his team’s practice ahead of the FIBA 3x3 World Tour, a sport that was added to the Olympics in 2020. Packed with vacationers that late May afternoon, cars sped past heading to and from the beautiful Mediterranean beaches.
Then everything halted.
A man on a motorized bike pulled up next to Fredette and shut off the gas in the middle of the street.
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