2011 NBA Draft: Pacers To Workout Six Players Pre-Draft, Including Jimmer Fredette

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Let's all be honest with ourselves and admit that if BYU superstar and 2011 Naismith award winner Jimmer Fredette falls to the Indiana Pacers, who have the 15th overall pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, team president Larry Bird will draft him.

It doesn't matter if Bird traded for point guard Darren Collison last year, and it doesn't matter that Collison had a pretty good season for Indiana in 2010-2011. Despite making the playoffs, the Pacers had the worst home attendance in the entire NBA last year. Folks, that's worse than Cleveland, and they only won 19 games. Even during the playoffs, fans from the other team seemed to outnumber Pacers fans at Conseco Fieldhouse.

Pacers basketball is on the verge of becoming totally irrelevant, if it isn't so already. To have this happen in a state where basketball is practically its own organized religion is sacrilege. Drafting Jimmer Fredette would change things pretty damn quick, bringing lots of new converts back into the holy temple of basketball that is Conseco Fiedlhouse.

Thus, it should come as no surprise to us that, according to Mike Wells at the Indianapolis Star, the Pacers plan to workout Jimmer Fredette tomorrow along with five other draft hopefuls. These other players include Tennessee's Tobias Harris, Flordia's Vernon Macklin, Kansas's Marcus Morris, Duke's Nolan Smith, and Jeremy Tyler, who has been playing Israeli professional basketball for a few years.

Fredette averaged 28.9 points and 4.3 assists a game last year at BYU, leading them to the Sweet Sixteen round of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1981. Interesting note on Fredette is he was not rated as the best shooter during the NBA Scouting Combine. However, despite this, Fredette did impress folks at the Combine.