Chris Webber

Basketball Player

Chris Webber was born in Detroit, Michigan, United States on March 1st, 1973 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 51, Chris Webber biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Other Names / Nick Names
Mayce Edward Christopher Webber III
Date of Birth
March 1, 1973
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Age
51 years old
Zodiac Sign
Pisces
Networth
$80 Million
Profession
Basketball Player, Businessperson
Chris Webber Height, Weight, Eye Color and Hair Color

At 51 years old, Chris Webber has this physical status:

Height
208cm
Weight
111.1kg
Hair Color
Dark brown
Eye Color
Not Available
Build
Athletic
Measurements
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Chris Webber Religion, Education, and Hobbies
Religion
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Hobbies
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Education
Detroit Country Day School in Beverly Hills, Michigan; University of Michigan
Chris Webber Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Not Available
Children
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Dating / Affair
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Parents
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Chris Webber Career

High school career

Webber attended Detroit Country Day School from 1987 to 1991, and at the time, she was the most recruited Michigan high school basketball player since Magic Johnson. Webber dominated Country Day to three MHSAA State championships. As a senior in high school, Webber's averaged 29.4 points and 13 rebounds per game. He was named Michigan's Mr. Basketball and the 1990-1991 National High School player of the year. He was named MVP of both the McDonald's and Dapper Dan All-Star games.

College career

Webber attended the University of Michigan for two years after graduating from Detroit Country Day School. Although a Michigan Wolverine, Webber penned the Fab Five, which included himself, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson, the group was led by Webber, who also included Juwan Howard, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson. This group, which all arrived in Michigan in the fall of 1991, advanced to the NCAA finals twice, losing both times. The Fab Five, who wore long, baggy shorts, and black socks, became extremely popular, becoming known as bringing a hip hop twist to the game. Four of the Fab Five (Webber, Rose, Howard, and King) made it to the NBA. The Fab Five coached Michigan to an NCAA championship game against Duke, becoming the first team in NCAA history to participate in the championship with freshmen as all five starters.

Webber brought the ball up the court into a half court trap on April 5, 1993, during Michigan's second straight appearance at the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship game with 11 seconds remaining. Michigan was defeated 773-71. When Webber's team had no spare time, he called for a timeout, resulting in a technical foul that effectively ended the game for North Carolina. Webber continues to be mocked for his time-out error; when he joined Inside the NBA in 2008, he was asked, "How many timeouts do you get in a game?" "I still don't know the answer," Webber said.) The time has come, according to his father's license plate, who reads the time. The error was later referred to in Uncle Drew, a 2018 sports comedy film in which Webber appeared in the role of Preacher.

Webber's celebrated two-year college basketball career came to an end. He was a first-team All-American pick and a finalist for the John R. Wooden Award and Naismith College Player of the Year in his second season. These awards and honors have been withheld due to a University of Michigan and NCAA sanctions relating to the University of Michigan's basketball scandal. Webber received over $200,000 from a local booster while playing basketball for Michigan, which led to the scandal. Webber was found guilty of perjury and barred from having any affiliation with the Michigan program until 2013.

Despite the ban, Webber attended the 2013 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship game between Michigan and Louisville. He evidently watched the game from a private suite rather than in the grandstands near courtside, where the other Fab Five members of the Fab Five watched the game together. "I'm here at the Georgia Dome to shout my love for the Michigan men's basketball team in its quest for a National Championship," Webber wrote on Twitter before the game: "I'm here at the Georgia Dome to say my love for the Michigan men's basketball team in their hunt for a National Championship." Since childhood, I've been following some of the players on the team, and I'm excited for them and all of the student athletes on the court tonight wearing the Michigan uniform. It's been a great season, and I wish them all the best."

Webber was charged in 2002 with lying to a grand jury as part of a larger probe into a numbers gaming operation conducted by Michigan basketball program booster Ed Martin in Detroit Motor Company plants in the Detroit area. The probe, which began with the numbers and tax evasion, was soon expanded to include the University of Michigan's basketball program. Martin was found guilty of tax evasion and robbery and was supposed to testify before a sentencing hearing but died of a heart attack at the time.

Webber pleaded guilty to one count of criminal contempt for lying about his involvement in a controversy in which four players, including himself, obtained illegal loans from Martin. Since the 8th grade, Martin has been giving money to Webber. He confessed in the plea that he owes Martin about $38,000 in cash as partial payment for charges he made on his behalf in 1994. He was ordered to pay $100,000 and complete 330 hours of community service.

Michigan forfeited its 1992 Final Four victory over Cincinnati and its runner-up status in the 1992 tourney due to questions that Webber's amateur status had been hampered. Michigan also cancelled the 1992-93 season, deleted the 1992 and 1993 Final Four banners from the Crisler Arena rafters, and deleted Webber's information from its database. The NCAA has also ordered Michigan to disassociate itself from Webber before 2013. As they played there, Webber later called Michigan's decision "hurtful" because he and his Fab Five teammates "gave everything to Michigan."

The Michigan State High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) recommended that Detroit Country Day forfeit all games in which Webber appeared (including three state championships), after Webber's plea, since junior high school. The school launched its own probe and announced that it had found "no valid evidence" that Webber had accepted "substantial" payments from Martin while in high school and therefore refused to forfeit any games. The MHSAA said it had no legal right to order the games to be forfeited.

For a total of eight games, Webber was banned by the NBA for an unidentified breach of the league's substance abuse policies, and three others for lying to the grand jury. Webber was suspended after recovering from an injury that kept him out for half of the 2003–04 season.

The controversies were chronicled in ESPN Films' documentary The Fab Five, which premiered in March 2011. The University of Michigan reiterated in it that it would not endorse Webber before he publicly apologised for his involvement in the Ed Martin affair, as well as a 10-year ban on all of the players' remaining ones that ended in 2013. Webber declined to be involved in the program.

Webber made his first post-ban public appearance at the University of Michigan on November 3, 2018, when football coach Jim Harbaugh invited him to play as an honorary captain for the University of Michigan's match against Penn State; Webber was warmly welcomed at Michigan Stadium. "Tell you what, fellas, this was a great moment in front of 100,000 people," Webber said on NBA television. I had goosebumps and chills, as well as some watery eyes." As a guest, Webber spent time with the football program before the game. He did not speak with the Michigan basketball team or staff, but despite this, head coach John Beilein said, "I think it was a major move in the right direction that he was here." Since Juwan Howard, a former Fab Five coworker, was fired as head coach in 2019, Webber said to TMZ, "Howard is my friend... and, therefore, I put pride aside." Webber said in TMZ that he is open to reconciling with Michigan basketball, but that he wants his return to the Crisler Arena to be private.

Professional career

The Orlando Magic was chosen first pick of the 1993 NBA draft, making him the first sophomore since Magic Johnson to be the first overall draft pick. In exchange for Penny Hardaway and three future first round draft picks, the Magic immediately traded him to the Golden State Warriors. Webber made $178 million in his 15-year NBA career.

Webber had an amazing first year in NBA Rookie of the Year Award winning 17.5 points and 9.1 rebounds per game and winning the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He was instrumental in the Warriors' return to the playoffs, where they were swept by the Charles Barkley-led Phoenix Suns in three games. Nevertheless, Don Nelson, his mentor, had a long-running rivalry with him. Despite Webber's superb passing skills and solid ball handling abilities for someone his size (6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) tall), Nelson wanted to make Webber primarily a writer. Given Nelson's propensity towards smaller, faster line ups, Webber also disliked playing a substantial amount of time at center. The Warriors acquired Rony Seikaly in 1994 so that Webber could play mainly at power forward. However, at the time, Webber and Nelson's differences were considered to be irreconcilable. Webber used a one-year suspension clause in his contract, saying he had no intention of returning to the Warriors. Golden State decided to a sign-and-trade agreement, sending Webber and the Washington Bullets to the Washington Bullets in 1997), giving forward Tom Gugliotta and three first-round draft picks little alternatives. Two of the Warriors' picks were included in a trade package with the Bullets less than four months earlier, as the Magic had used those picks in a trade agreement with the Bullets less than four months ago.

Webber was reunited with his college cohortmate and friend, Juwan Howard, with the Washington Bullets. He played for the Washington Wizards for three years, but his 1995–96 season limited him to just 15 games. Webber returned to his first All-Star team in 1997, where he was named to his first All-Star team. For the first time in nine years, Webber led the Bullets into the playoffs, but the Chicago Bulls swept them in three games. Webber had forged himself as a great power forward by 1998, but his time in Washington had also run out.

Webber was traded to the Sacramento Kings in 1998 for Mitch Richmond and Otis Thorpe. Despite the fact that Webber never intended to go to the Kings because the team was a perennially losing team, he spent his best years in Sacramento and almost made the team reach the NBA Finals.

As Webber arrived, the Kings also signed small forward Peja Stojakovi and center Vlade Divac, as well as drafted point guard Jason Williams. Webber's rookie season with the Kings (the lockout-shortened 1999-99 season) saw him win the rebounding crown by a whopping 13.0 rebounds per game, bringing an end to Dennis Rodman's seven-year tenure as the NBA's rebound leader. The Kings team made it to the 1999 Playoffs, where they lost to the Utah Jazz led by future hall of famers Karl Malone and John Stockton.

Webber and the Kings became one of the league's best franchises and NBA title contenders in years to come. He was selected to the All-Star team in 2000 and 2001, establishing his reputation as one of the NBA's top power forwards. Webber was the cover star on NBA Jam 2000, and the Kings won by 44 points in the first round of the 2000 Playoffs, where they met the Los Angeles Lakers. The Kings won the next two games in Sacramento after losing the first two games of the series in Los Angeles, with 23 points, 14 rebounds, 7 blocks, 8 assists, and 4 steals from Webber in game four, sending the series back to Los Angeles for a deciding game 5. Game 5 and the entire series were lost to the Lakers, who went on to win the championship the following year.

Webber made his career-high 27.1 points in the 2000-2001–01 season. When starting at forward for the Western Conference All-Star Game in Washington, he averaged 11.1 rebounds and was fourth in MVP voting. Webber and the Kings defeated the Phoenix Suns in four games of the first round of their career, the first time he had appeared in a second round. Despite Webber's 21 points, 11 rebounds, and 8 assists in game four, the Kings lost in four games to the Lakers.

Webber first agreed to a seven-year, $127 million contract with the Kings on July 27, 2001. Webber appeared in 54 games leading the Kings to a Pacific division championship and a franchise-record (and league-best) 61–21 season in the 2001–02 season. He also played for his fourth All-Star team and the All-NBA Second Team. In the 2002 Playoffs, the Kings defeated the Utah Jazz in four games and Dallas Mavericks in five games in the first two rounds, beating their archrivals, Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal, in a series that will be one of the most memorable (and controversial) in NBA history. The Lakers won one, four (highlighted by Robert Horry) and six (a game that featured many controversial calls, including a late-game foul on Mike Bibby after being bleeding from being elbowed in the nose by Bryant). In the fourth quarter, the Lakers made 27 free throws. Tim Donaghy, a former NBA referee, who appeared in court papers in 2008, said that Game 6 had been determined by the NBA. Donaghy's charges were denied by NBA Commissioner David Stern. Lawrence Pedowitz, who supervised a report into the league's officiating following the scandal, found that although Game 6 had been poorly officiated, no concrete evidence had been found. The Kings won two, three, and five games, with 29 points, 13 rebounds, and three assists from teammate Mike Bibby in game five, as well as the deciding seventh game of the season. Both the game was tuck and tuck, with Webber's 20 points 11 assists, 2 blocks and 1 steal, and Bryant and O'Neal's 30 points, 7 rebounds, 2 assists, and 2 assists, respectively, as the game went into overtime, with missed shots from teammates Stojakovic and Doug Christie causing the Kings to forfeit Game 7 of the season at home. It was the nearest Webber ever got to a championship.

Webber played 23 points and 11 rebounds per game in the upcoming season. He was named as a potential MVP candidate and joined his fifth consecutive All-Star team. Webber suffered a sprained ankle during the All Star game, which was a warning of what was to come. Despite this, he returned and the Kings were among the NBA's leading candidates to win the NBA Championship. Webber sustained a career-threatening knee injury while running down the lane unprotected, causing him to miss nearly a year of action. The Kings' title aspirations were shattered, and they lost the series in seven games.

After microfracture surgery, he returned to the Kings for the final 24 games of the 2003-2004 Playoffs, in which they defeated the Dallas Mavericks for the third year in a row, a series that would be one of the most exciting in NBA history. Each game was a contest between the Timberwolves and the others in the first six games of the series, with the Timberwolves winning games two, three, and five, while the Kings won games one, four and six, with 28 points, 3 assist 3 steals, and 1 block from Webber in game four. Throughout the first three quarters, the game was indecisively close, with Webber's 16 points 8 rebounds, 1 steal, and 1 steal, while Garnett's 32 points 2 assists 4 steals and 5 blocks remaining in the game. After being lobbed through inbounds, Webber pump-faked Garnett in the air and got a clean look as Garnett avoided contact for a three-point shot that rimmed out as the final buzzer sounded and the Kings lost Game 7 and the series for the third year in a row. It was the last opportunity for the Webber-led Kings to win a championship, but it was dismantled the following season.

Webber was traded by the Philadelphia 76ers in February 2005 for power forward Kenny Thomas, forward/center Brian Skinner, and former King Corliss Williamson. Webber took time to integrate with the 76ers' offense, where he was the second scoring option behind Allen Iverson. He later helped the Sixers advance to a berth in the 2005 playoffs, where the Sixers lost to the Detroit Pistons. However, the Bulls did not qualify for the playoffs in 2006, despite Webber's resurgent 20 points and 10 rebounds per game. Webber's lateral quickness and jumping skills were hampered as a result of his knee microfracture. Although he still had offensive skills, he was still considered a defensive risk and was often dismissed for the 4th quarters. Webber was dissatisfied with his job and spoke with team president Billy King, but said he wasn't demanding a trade.

Webber and Iverson were fined on Tuesday, April 18, 2006, for missing the Philadelphia 76ers' last home game of the season, Fan Appreciation Night, although neither of them were able to participate and not expected to play. They both apologised for being late the next day.

Webber appeared in only 18 of the Sixers' 35 games during the 2006–07 season, causing the media to question his motivations. The Sixers and Webber had reached a reported $25 million contract buyout on the remaining two years of his deal, effectively paying him not to play. Webber was waived by the Sixers later that day, making him a free agent.

Webber signed with the Detroit Pistons on January 16, 2007. Throughout his career, he has said he always wanted to play for his hometown team. Joe Dumars' normal number 4 had been decommissioned, so Webber wore the number 84 because his nephew had a vision of him being a buzzer beater with that number. Following Webber's trade, the Pistons were a much improved basketball team, raising their record in the Eastern Conference, and solidifying the first seed in the East. However, the Eastern Conference favorites failed to advance to the finals after losing to the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games in the Eastern Conference Finals, leaving Webber short of a second appearance in NBA Finals. Despite getting little minutes, Webber did well in the 2007 Playoffs. In the playoffs, Webber still managed to average 10 points and 6 rebounds per game, as well as shooting an impressive 54% from the field. Webber's efforts were highlighted by his game 5 results in the Eastern Conference Finals, in which he scored 20 points (including 5 points in the double-overtime period) on 9 of 13 shootings and grabbed 7 boards. Nevertheless, Detroit lost what turned out to be the most important game in the series in double overtime, and Webber finished up with a career low of 11.2 PPG in his time with the Pistons. Detroit did not re-sign Webber during the offseason. Despite receiving lucrative bids from companies around Europe, he was in a free agency at the start of the regular season.

The Golden State Warriors signed Webber for the remainder of the season on January 29, 2008. The terms of the contract were not disclosed, but the San Francisco Chronicle announced that the pro-rated veteran would be compensated by the minimum of $1.2 million (approximately $570,000). This came after the Los Angeles Lakers refused to coax Webber in two 10-day contracts, so they might determine later if they wanted him to stay for the remainder of the season. Discussions of joining the Detroit Pistons, Dallas Mavericks, or retirement were also put into question. He appeared in only nine games for the Warriors, averaging 3.9 points and 3.6 rebounds in 14 minutes per game.

Webber officially resigned from basketball after suffering with his surgically repaired knee, which was waived by the Warriors on March 25, 2008. Webber made his first appearance on television on Inside the NBA on TNT on March 27, 2008, alongside Charles Barkley and host Ernie Johnson. TNT offered Webber a job as a commentator for the postseason on April 25, 2008.

Webber returned to ARCO Arena, home of the Sacramento Kings, on February 6, 2009, to participate in the celebrations surrounding his jersey's retirement. #104 is the first draft.

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Chris Webber Awards

Awards

  • 5 time All-Star
  • 5 time All-NBA – 2001 first team, 1999, 2002, & 2003 second team, 2000 third team
  • NBA Rookie of the Year (1994)
  • NBA All-Rookie First Team (1994)
  • 1990–1991 National High School player of the year
  • Jerseys: #44 Detroit Country Day School, #4 Sacramento Kings
  • 1999 NBA rebounding champ (13.0 rpg)
  • 2021 Inductee to Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame

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