Jimmer Fredette scores 75 points in single Chinese Basketball Association game but Shanghai Sharks still lose

Heartbreak as Fly Dragons star Pierre Jackson hits buzzer-beating three to finish with 63 points in 137-136 epic

Score beats his previous career high of 73 points in CBA last season, dwarfing his NBA high of 24 with Sacramento Kings

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Jimmer Fredette in the 2017 Chinese Basketball Association All-Star game. Photo: Facebook/Jimmer Fredette

Published: 3:25pm, 12 Nov 2018Updated: 3:25pm, 12 Nov 2018

Former NBA point guard Jimmer Fredette scored 75 points for the Shanghai Sharks in the Chinese Basketball Association but still ended up on the losing side.

The 10th-round game saw his side come up against Beijing Fly Dragons, the final team of his rival Stephon Marbury, in the Chinese capital.

Despite Fredette’s heroics, which included 40 points in the fourth quarter and 62 in the second half, his team lost 137-136.

Shanghai had clawed back a 16-point deficit to lead by two with seconds remaining before Beijing’s Pierre Jackson hitting a buzzer-beating three to steal the win.

Jackson scored 63.

Fredette’s score was only the second highest in CBA history. That was Errick McColumn’s 82 points

It is his career best though, beating his previous best was 73 against the Zhejiang Guangsha Lions last season but that came in a game with two overtime periods.

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