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 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 see myself playing next year, and I see myself in a Timberwolves uniform. I want to end my career here. I want to stay with this organization.
They all say there is a small amount of risk. They have differing opinions on how much there is. They can't put a number on that risk, because nobody has ever played with my condition. At the end of the day, with the family I have, I think the smartest thing for me to do is retire.
Even though the risk of something serious happening is very low, there is a risk.
I've always wanted to come back and coach at Iowa State.
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.
Right now, I'm trying to make a decision.
Maybe it will be mentoring the younger players,
You can mark my word. I will play again.
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.
The big mistake this year is we came in expecting to win, and I don't think we had the same fire and intensity that we had a year ago.
I wanted to show that I could be the first guy to play with a pacemaker, because I felt that I could. I tried everything I possibly could to try to play.