A year ago at this time, Jimmer Fredette was the biggest story in the world of college basketball and among the biggest stories in sports period in 2011.
That was then, this is now.
Even last year there were plenty of skeptics on how Jimmer’s game would progress at the next level, and he has not done much with the Sacramento Kings so far to diffuse such criticism.
After again being a DNP-CD in the Kings loss at Miami last night, frustration boiled over on Twitter from Jimmer’s older brother TJ Fredette, who unleashed this volley directed at Kings interim HC Keith Smart.
TJ immediately got feedback, mostly from BYU fans carrying a hash-tag of #freejimmer. One even went as far as to say that the @JLin7 story should be the Jimmer story right now.
Jimmer’s brother than continued with 20+ more tweets in the next hour, with replacement Jimmer’s replacement Isaiah Thomas being one of his targets, noting that the Kings usually lose when ‘Isaiah’s played well’…
Well, the Kings ...
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