Fredderick Edmund VanVleet Sr. is an American professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for Wichita State University before beginning his NBA career. He was named Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Year as both a sophomore and a senior. VanVLeet is the Wichita State career assists leader and was named one of the 10 semi-finalists for the Bob Cousy Award on February 28, 2014.
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Fredderick Edmund VanVleet Sr. is an American professional basketball player for the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association. He played college basketball for Wichita State University before beginning his NBA career. He was named Missouri Valley Conference Men’s Basketball Player of the Year as both a sophomore and a senior. After going undrafted in the 2016 NBA Draft, Vanvleet signed with the Raptors and won an NBA championship with the team in 2019. He is also a member of the NBA G League affiliate, Raptors 905. VanVLeet is the Wichita State career assists leader and was named one of the 10 semi-finalists for the Bob Cousy Award on February 28, 2014. He helped lead the 2013–14 team to the first 31–0 regular season in the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame’s basketball history. In 2012, he was an All-State first team selection by the Chicago Sun-Times, Associated Press, and Chicago Tribune as a senior in 2012. He also helped lead Auburn to a 22-game winning streak which resulted in the school’s first Illinois High School Association final four since 1975. He received basketball scholarship offers from Colorado State, Northern Illinois, Southern Illinois, Drake, Detroit, and Kent State. His stepfather felt that he was being overlooked by many Chicago metropolitan area schools because of his decision not to join a Chicago AAU team. When he accepted an offer to play for Wichita state, he became the only member of a national class of 2012 Rivals.
com top 150 to attend a Missouri Valley conference school. As a sophomore, he contributed double digit scoring twice in the 2013 NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament from off the bench. His 12 points against Ohio State included a late basket that helped the Shockers become the fifth team with a seeding higher than eight to make it to the finalFour since 1979 when seeding began. On March 11, 2014, he earned honorable mention recognition from the Associated Press and was also selected to the all-District VI team by the United States Basketball Writers Association. On February 17, Van Vleet was selected as one of 23 finalists for theBob Cousy award. He went on to become a key player forThe Raptors and winning an NBA title with them in 2019 and the G League’s 2017 championship team. He has also been named to the All-Missouri Valley Conference first team and All-Conference first team by Sporting News, Bleacher Report, and the third-team selection byBleacher Report. His father, Fredderick, is a former NBA player who played for the New York Knicks and the New Jersey Nets. His brother, Fredrick, is an assistant coach at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he also played for three seasons. He won the McDonald’s All-American Game and the NBA All-Star Game as a junior for the 2014–15 Shockers. His mother, Jeanette, is the former head coach of the Charlotte Hornets.
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