Jimmer eyes return, MVP trophy in hand

The “Lonely God” wants some NBA company.

Jimmer Fredette is trying to figure out his return from overseas, having conquered the Chinese Basketball Association during an MVP season.

The Shanghai Sharks superstar, who is in the CBA playoffs right now after a season in which he averaged 37.4 points per game, is reaching out to NBA teams for a March return, according to The Vertical.

Fredette has won over China, with a deity’s nickname, 73-point games and a show put on at the 3-point contest. But his wife had the couple’s first child this week, and a return to the States and to the top professional basketball league in the world would be the redemption he’s wanted.

Fredette has bounced from team to team since being a 2011 first-round pick of the Kings, and has settled into basketball limbo — a dominant D-Leaguer and CBA player, yet on the outskirts of the NBA.

The 28-year-old appeared in the league last season, in a much-hyped, yet forgettable two-game cameo with the disastrous Knicks. After his underwhelming cup of coffee with the Knicks, the 3-point bomber signed in China, where he recently was named MVP, which was well deserved: When he missed the Sharks’ first playoff game to be with his wife, they lost by 40. With Fredette, the Sharks won Game 2, knotting the bestof-five series at a game apiece.

But Fredette, who shot 40 percent from 3 and 93 percent from the free-throw line, is looking past the love in China and hoping any NBA team needs a shooter for the final stretch of the season.