Chris Webber

Mayce Edward Christopher Webber III, better known as Chris Webber, ( born March 1, 1973 in Detroit, Michigan ) is a retired American professional basketball player.

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Career

High School

Attention was Chris Webber already in 1990 / 91st He provided for the Country Day High School in Detroit staggering 28 points, 13 rebounds, 4 steals and 4 blocks in the section. This year he was awarded the Mr. Basketball Award of the State of Michigan and elected to the National High School Player of the Year. During his time at Country Day High School, he helped this to 3 titles. In November 2005, his high school jersey was retired with the number 44 (ie, they are no longer issued to players ).

College

At the University of Michigan, he was on the side of Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson, better known as the Fab Five, the constant in college sports. The Michigan Wolverines reached in 1992 and 1993 respectively the finals of the NCAA tournament, but they could neither against the Duke Blue Devils (1992 ) nor the North Carolina Tar Heels ( 1993) win. Forever in memory probably remains the finals in 1993, when Chris Webber was a serious mistake: With 11 seconds left on the clock, he requested a break, even though Michigan had all been used up. Thus, a technical foul was imposed against the Wolverines and they lost the game with 77-71. In his 70 games for Michigan, all as a starter, he scored an average of 17.4 points ( 58.9 % FG), 10.0 rebounds and 2.5 blocks.

Golden State Warriors (1993-1994)

1993 Chris Webber was drafted at # 1 out of the Orlando Magic, but passed directly to Anfernee Penny Hardaway and three future picks to the Golden State Warriors. In his first year as a professional he exhibited his class to the test. In 76 games, the rookie scoring average of 17.5 points, 9.1 rebounds and 2.2 blocks and sat down in a vote for Rookie of the Year against Anfernee Hardaway by. Thanks to the strong performance from Chris Webber reached the Golden State Warriors a score of 50-32 and moved into the playoffs in the Western Conference.

Washington Bullets (1994-1998)

In the summer of 1994, there was a rift between Chris Webber and coach Don Nelson. The young forward demanded a trade, pointing to a clause that would allow him to leave the team as a restricted free agent. Golden State responded and was trading Webber in exchange for Tom Gugliotta and three future picks to the Washington Bullets. After a weak start to the season, Chris Webber increased slowly and reached at the end of the season, on the side of Juwan Howard, 20.1 points, 9.6 rebounds and 1.6 blocks. After dotted by injuries season, the Bullets were with a record of 21-61 in last place in the Eastern Conference. Self Webber remained injury problems of the capital city is not spared and had to stop from December to February due to a shoulder injury 19 games.

The 1995/96 season could hardly run worse. Once again, Chris Webber injured in a pre-season game at the shoulder. The beginning of the season was his name on the Injured List. The end of November he came back into use, but dropped out after only 15 games his injury on and the season ended early for the young forward. Webber but battled back again and led the Bullets, who had in the meantime renamed Washington Wizards, in points, rebounds and blocks on, as in the season 1996 / 97th

Sacramento Kings (1998-2005)

In the 1997/98 season he was traded to the Sacramento Kings, where he first fell into a deep mental, but soon after tore together with disastrous appearance. Together with new players such as center Vlade Divac, Peja Stojakovic three-point expert, defense expert Doug Christie and point guard as well as pick and roll specialist Mike Bibby made ​​Webber the core of a new force that consistently transposed from the Princeton coach Rick Adelman offense. The Kings reached 2000/1 for the first time the Conference Semifinals and failed a year later unhappy after extra time in Game 7 of the Conference Finals against the future champions, the Los Angeles Lakers. Webber managed in 2002/ 3, the feat of the Kings both to lead in points, rebounds, assists and steals per game ( 23.5/10.5/5.4/1.6 ), only with shot blocks (1.3), he was " only" second. The Kings went as favorites in the playoffs until Webber drew upon a serious knee injury from which he would never recover properly. In the following two years he reached twice the Conference Semifinals, but without quite get at its former level. Nevertheless, he was with five nominations in the All- NBA Team and All- Star team as one of the superstars of that era.

Philadelphia 76ers (2005-2007)

2005 Webber was then traded to the Philadelphia 76ers, where he made an excellent duo with Allen Iverson. However, Webber also had problems again.

Detroit Pistons (2007)

Webber returned to the NBA 2006-2007 season in his hometown of Detroit at the Pistons, where he failed in the playoffs until the Eastern Conference Finals to the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Golden State Warriors ( 2008)

After a break from summer 2007 to January 2008, in which he had been given a contract by Olympiakos Piraeus offered, among other things ( the highest -doped offer that would get a U.S. basketball abroad by then), he signed with the Golden State Warriors where there had started his career in 1993 under the current coach Don Nelson. Here he finished on 26 March 2008 because of chronic knee problems his career.

Others

  • 2002, Webber made ​​a guest appearance in the movie Like Mike.
  • The song Blunt Ashes by rapper Nas was produced by Webber.
  • After Webber retired from professional basketball in 2008, he now works as an analyst for NBA TV.

Awards

  • National High School Player of the Year (1990-1991)
  • NCAA Men 's Division I Basketball All-American (1993 )
  • NCAA All Tournament 1st Team (1992, 1993)
  • All NBA Rookie (1994 )
  • NBA Rookie of the Year (1994 )
  • 5 times All-Star (1997, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 )
  • 5 times All- NBA - first team (2001), second team (1999, 2002, 2003 ), third team (2000)
  • 1999 Best rebounder in the NBA (13.0 rpg ) (1999 )
  • Retraction numbers: # 44 Detroit Country Day School ( 2005), # 4 Sacramento Kings (2009)

Statistics

Playoffs

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