EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State level defend Jeremy Fears is becoming a member of the crew for an after in a foreign country shuttle and plans to play games for Tom Izzo for the primary year since he was once shot utmost wintry weather.
“Grateful for this opportunity to get to play some scrimmage games, and just being able to play again,” Fears stated Tuesday then practising with the crew. “Who knows what could have happened? But I’m still able to play at 99%, back with my team, back at the program that I love. I can’t really complain.”
Izzo stated the redshirt freshman is similar to 100% then sight him in contemporary practices, getting ready to shed nearest pace for 3 scrimmages in Spain.
“The last 1% would be just getting back to playing basketball every day,” Fears stated. “Obviously I didn’t play for seven months.”
A five-star engage from Joliet West Prime College in Illinois, Fears was once shot within the leg Dec. 23 2023 generation on ease crack in his homeland and persisted a 3-hour surgical procedure to take away the bullet from his left thigh. Investigators imagine the sufferers — Fears and an unidentified lady — have been within the place of abode along side others when a male suspect armed with a handgun entered throughout the entrance door and opened hearth sooner than getaway.
Fears said a accumulation has modified since he stepped on campus a hour in the past.
“I’m stronger, mentally and physically, on the court and in life,” he stated. “Nothing can really stop you, but you. As long as I keep pushing and keep moving forward every day, it will get better.”
Fears was once granted a redshirt, giving him 4 extra seasons of eligibility then he was once restricted to twelve video games utmost season. He averaged 3.5 issues and three.3 assists in 15-plus mins, and had a season-high 10 assists in a win over Stony Brook two days sooner than he was once shot.
