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Just in time for March Madness, Jimmer Fredette is back.

The former BYU sensation is getting yet another shot in the NBA, agreeing to a two-year deal with the Suns on Thursday, 98.7 Arizona Sports first reported. The second year is a team option.

It is a sensible fit: Fredette is a perennial fan favorite who at least makes the 17-55 Suns more watchable, and his season in the Chinese Basketball Association recently ended — a season in which his 36 points per game ranked fourth in the league, and he shot 42 percent from 3-point range.

This is the first chance stateside Fredette is getting in three years, last appearing in an NBA game in 2016 with the Knicks, after which he bolted to become a legend in China. The sharpshooter and volume shooter, now 30, had never caught on since being the 10th-overall pick in the 2011 draft. He spent his early career in Sacramento, his career high being 7.6 points per game in his rookie season.

He bounced around from Chicago to New Orleans to the Knicks, a fascination who could not shoot well enough to compensate for poor defensive play. But that shot and his heart-stopping range, made epic by his BYU tenure from 2007 to 2011, always have intrigued.

This year was believed to be the final year of his three-year CBA deal. Asked by The Post’s Jake Nisse in August where he would be next, Fredette wasn’t sure.

“Could be somewhere back in the States, it could be somewhere back in China, it could be somewhere else,” Fredette said.

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