Frederick Edmund VanVleet was born on February 25, 1994 in Rockford, Illinois, UNITED States, nicknamed "Stable Freddie" and "Van Jordan"! He joined Wichita State University basketball in 2012 and made 141 appearances for the team in four seasons, averaging 10.2 points, 4.5 assists and 1.6 steals per game, including assists, steals and assists to turnover, and won the Missouri League Player of the Year twice! It is worth mentioning that despite this, when he decided to participate in the league draft, his coach thought that the stout boy (1.83m) would not achieve success in basketball, fortunately Fred himself did not think so, he still "insisted on going his own way" to start the league dream journey.
In 2016, Van Fer competed in the draft but was not selected, after which he represented the Raptors in the Summer League, and although the statistics were not outstanding, his three-point shooting percentage played a key role! On 19 July 2016, the club signed him on a two-year unsecured contract.
On November 10, 2016, VanVleet made his career debut as a substitute in the Raptors' victory over the Thunder. In the December 3 win over the Lakers, Van Vladimir scored two points in four minutes and scored the first goal of his NBA career. In the period since, he has continued to set new personal highs in rebounds, assists and steals in a single game, and at the end of the 16-17 season, Vanver made 37 appearances for the Raptors, averaging 2.9 points, 1.1 board and 0.9 assists in 7.9 minutes per game, a typical tepid role player...
In the new season of 2017, Vanver began to gradually open up, and the progress was visible to the naked eye! He played 28 minutes against the Walkers on Nov. 7 and finished with 16 points, five rebounds, four assists and five steals. In his victory over the Cavaliers on January 12, 2018, Vanver played 24 minutes, scoring 22 points, four rebounds, four assists and one steal on 8-of-11 shooting, continuing to set a new career single-game scoring record. Playing 20 minutes in the Jan. 29 win over the Lakers, scoring 25 points, two rebounds, four assists and two steals, Fred made 76 appearances throughout the 17-18 regular season, scoring 8.6 points, 2.4 rebounds and 3.2 assists in 20 minutes, and then a good thing: in July of that year, he was awarded a two-year, $18 million agreement renewal, and before that he had been shortlisted for the "Best Sixth Man" award for this season's outstanding performance.
At this point, the "little fat man" who once had no ball to play has gained a foothold in the league, and the next step is to move towards a higher goal!
In the 2018-19 season, Vanfer reached the top of a basketball player, and despite suffering some injuries, he still teamed up with the whole team to defeat the Bucks to reach the Finals. It is worth mentioning that throughout the Eastern Conference Finals, F van's three-pointer was second only to the core of the team, Kyle Lowry, and he was also considered one of the most watched Raptors attack points in the Finals.
Sure enough, on June 14, the Raptors finally defeated the Warriors 114-110 to win the NBA championship 4-2, and VanVleet won a vote in the FMVP selection. In particular, in the sixth game, he shot 6 of 14, including 5 of 11 three-pointers, and scored 22 points, 2 rebounds and 1 steal, which also set a new three-point shooting record for substitutes in a single season.
After the championship is in hand, the next few seasons with the departure of several cores, VanVer needs to carry the team as an important part to continue to move forward. As a result, his career scores, steals, rebounds, and single-game three-point highs followed, and the total number of assists has reached the top ten in team history, and the playoffs have become the first player for the Raptors to have at least 30 points and 10 assists in a single game and at least 20 points and 10 assists in two consecutive games. In 2020, Van Waffle received extreme recognition and admiration from the club and got a 4-year, $85 million contract extension agreement, becoming the league's first-line star and "new leader" in one fell swoop!
In a Jan. 5 victory over the Spurs this season, VanVer scored 33 points, seven assists, and 7-of-14 three-pointers, making him the first player in Raptors history to shoot at least seven consecutive three-pointers in a game. At the same time, he scored at least 25 points and 5 assists in five consecutive games, tied lowry's All-time Record for the Raptors and became the first player in team history to have at least 30 points and 5 assists in two consecutive games plus 5+ three-pointers with zero turnovers.
On January 8, 2022, the Raptors defeated the Jazz, Andr Van scored 37 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, and for the first time in his career, he won a triple-double, which was the third player in the history of the team to win a three-double and the first player to shoot 4+ three-pointers in seven consecutive games, and then he shot at least 4 three-pointers in 8 consecutive games, becoming the most player in Raptors history to hit 3+ three-pointers in a row, behind Curry and Harden in the history of the league! In this way, people witnessed the inspirational journey of an ugly duckling to grow into a swan. On February 4, 2022, after winning the championship, VanVer fulfilled another wish of his athletic career, and the NBA officially announced the Eastern Conference All-Star bench lineup, and he was successfully selected, thus becoming the fourth player in the league's nearly 40-year history to be selected for the tournament.
In the just-concluded playoffs of the season, although the Raptors once again lost to Philadelphia to promote the situation is not optimistic, but VanVer scored 38 points, 5 boards and 13 assists in two games, and is fighting with Siakam and others for the breakthrough! Everything today may be satisfied, after all, the road he has walked is full of hardships and has gained sweetness! Or maybe he is never satisfied, on the road of chasing honor, "I want to jump higher", this sentence comes from the heart of such a civilian-like leading big brother, and he thinks so calmly on the field, and he does it so coldly.