Fred VanVleet

Fred VanVleet is the ultimate proof that the draft is a flawed system. Going undrafted out of Wichita State in 2016 should have been a death sentence for an NBA career, but this guy from Rockford, Illinois just refused to take the hint. He clawed his way onto the Toronto Raptors roster, earned his minutes through sheer relentlessness, and then went and got himself a championship ring in 2019 — draining clutch shots in the NBA Finals while the whole basketball world watched. He kept leveling up from there, earning his first All-Star nod in 2022, and landing a massive contract with the Houston Rockets as a veteran leader. There's something genuinely inspiring about a player who bets on himself when no one else will, and VanVleet has been cashing that bet ever since.

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Name (English)

Fred VanVleet

Name (Japanese)

フレッド・ヴァンブリート

Reading

ふれっど・ゔぁんぶりーと

Born

February 25, 1994 (age 32)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

Origin

Rockford, Illinois, United States

Height

183 cm

Occupation

basketball player

High school

Auburn High School

University

Wichita State University

Awards & achievements

• 2014 Missouri Valley Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/fredvanvleet/
• Xhttps://x.com/FredVanVleet
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20VanVleet
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3%E3%83%96%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16236628

Tags

• Illinois
• basketball player

Last updated

2026-06-02

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