Former NBA Player Jimmer Fredette Making Some Noise in Chinese Basketball Association

Nov 24, 2016 10:43 PM EST

(Photo : Getty Images) Shanghai Sharks import Jimmer Fredette is the current Chinese Basketball Association scoring leader.

After a limited playing time and an elusive sterling career in the largest professional basketball league in the world, the former first-round draft pick of the NBA Jimmer Fredette is now slowly making his name in the premier professional basketball league in China.

According to Post Star, the foreign reinforcement of the Shanghai Sharks currently leads the ongoing 22^nd season of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) in scoring. Fredette has posted an impressive average of 40.2 points per game for the Yao Ming-owned professional Chinese ballclub.

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Fredette has registered a remarkable 51 percent shooting accuracy from the field, while the former Sacramento Kings guard is rated as 45 percent dependable from the three-point area and shoots with an outstanding 91 percent efficiency from the foul line. The 27-year-old native of Glen Falls, New York, is also averaging 7.8 rebounds, 5.2 assists, and 2.3 steals per outing in the nine matches that they played this season.

The 2011 National College Player of the Year and NCAA Division I scoring leader has guided the Sharks to the top of the CBA team standing boasting an 8-1 win-loss record after nine rounds. The Jilin Northeast Tigers was the only team who defeated the Shanghai Sharks with a narrow 104-103 victory.

In their game against the Guangdong Southern Tigers in the fifth round of the Chinese league, Fredette had a season-high 51 points including nine connections from beyond the arc and only missed one attempt from the seven free throw shots awarded to him in their 111-88 routing of the Yi Jianlian-led Chinese side, basing from the box score of EuroBasket.

Last September, with steady shooting hands Fredette lifted the Sharks in claiming the 2016 Merlion Cup against the Philippine squad of Mighty Sports with a close 78-77 triumph after the American point guard converted all of his three free shots after getting fouled during the dying seconds of the championship match.

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