Fred VanVleet
American basketball player (born 1994)
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Key Takeaways
- Fredderick Edmund VanVleet Sr.
- He is also the current president of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA).
- He contributed to a resurgence of Wichita State Shockers basketball that included a Final Four run by the 2012–13 Shockers team and an undefeated regular season by the 2013–14 team.
- After going undrafted in the 2016 NBA draft, VanVleet signed with the Toronto Raptors.
- He went on to become a key player for the Raptors and won an NBA championship with the team in 2019.
Fredderick Edmund VanVleet Sr. (born February 25, 1994) is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is also the current president of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA).
A point guard, VanVleet played college basketball for Wichita State University. He contributed to a resurgence of Wichita State Shockers basketball that included a Final Four run by the 2012–13 Shockers team and an undefeated regular season by the 2013–14 team. VanVleet is the Wichita State career assists leader and was named MVC 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 Toronto Raptors. He spent time with the Raptors and their G League affiliate, Raptors 905, during the 2016–17 season and was a member of Raptors 905's 2017 championship team. He went on to become a key player for the Raptors and won an NBA championship with the team in 2019. He was named to his first NBA All-Star Game in 2022.
Early life
VanVleet was born on February 25, 1994, in Rockford, Illinois, to Susan VanVleet and Fred Manning. His father was murdered in 1999 when VanVleet was five years old. His mother later remarried Joe Danforth, a U.S. Army veteran and retired police officer of the Rockford Police Department, who became VanVleet's stepfather and also served as his personal trainer.
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