Fred Hoiberg
Fred Hoiberg
Fred Hoibergis a former professional basketball player and an American basketball coach who currently serves as head coach for the Chicago Bulls of the NBA. Previously, Hoiberg was the men's basketball head coach for Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Hoiberg grew up in Ames, Iowa, and played college basketball at Iowa State. He then played professional basketball for ten years and served as vice president for basketball operations for the Minnesota Timberwolves before beginning his coaching career...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth15 October 1972
CityLincoln, NE
I plan on coming back and playing. I'm jogging a little bit. I'm starting to see I will be able to play again.
I had great visits with both those teams. But the medical staffs of both teams were a little hesitant on clearing me to play. So we thought we would wait until next year.
If there's something wrong or a chance something can go wrong, I'll hang 'em up. I'll think about that first hit (if he returns). My game is diving on the floor, setting screens, but if the doctors say it's OK, and they say the heart has healed, I'll play.
When something is taken away from you before you're ready, something that you love to do so much, it's tough to accept. But at the end of the day, what it came down to was my family being comfortable with me being out there. And that's not going to happen.
I think we knew that when I got released back in August that there was a possibility that I was going to play this year. Now it's kind of becoming a reality.
If I was a rookie, without a family, I'd probably be playing right now. But my family is the most important thing to me. I think it would be selfish for me to go and play if there was any risk involved.
I enjoyed looking at the talent. That's something I've always wanted to do, to put a team together. I'm going to learn as much as I can, and try to help this team get where it was a couple of years ago.
(From) the smiles on the kids' faces, you could really tell that you took them away from everything that's been going on in their lives these last couple of weeks.
I still think about that incident almost every day and about the look on her face when I came to after being unconscious for two minutes. I think about when I finally did come back, being in her arms and her saying 'Don't leave me.' I just cannot imagine what that must have been like for her.
I scared her enough for one lifetime when I passed out. I still think about how scary that was for her. I would never want to put her in a position where I would scare her like that again.
Hearing her say that it would be very tough for her to watch me while I was out there playing made the decision a little easier.
If guys are struggling with their role, I might be a guy that they can come talk to about that. I'm just going to try to do anything I can.
I change my mind several times a day.
All of you are aware of the journey I've taken this past year and I just want to relay to all of the people that sent along their prayers and well wishes, my heartfelt thanks. It was truly overwhelming to me and my family the outpouring that we received from the Twin Cities community and from across the Midwest.