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Former Michigan great and leader of the famous Fab-Five Chris Webber has called it quits after 15 seasons in the NBA. I'm not sure how many of you Wolverine fans like C-Webb or hate him. I'm a huge fan of Mayce Edward Christopher Webber III and can say proudly has been my favorite athlete over the past 20 years in any sport.
What great memories...over the two years the Fab Five played together at Michigan they provided some of the best memories I have to this day. Yeah that era is tarnished by the Ed Martin scandal which made Michigan remove the Fab Five era from their record books leaving no memoray of them ever playing in back to back Final Fours. That will still not make me forget the games against Duke (3 hard fought losses), Indiana ('93-'94 season two classic games), North Carolina(two great games), Michigan State (Michigan dominated the Spartans then), Ohio State (Jimmy Jackson was a bitch to stop but we did it freshmen to Final 4), UCLA (wow), Kentucky (great final 4 game), Cincinnati (Shock the World), Temple (first NCCA tournament win), Notre Dame (all fab five players start Webber #4, Rose #5, Howard #25, King #24 and Jackson #21)...
Webber was a baller one of the top 15 PF's to ever play the game...just made some bad choices in life they haunted him his entire career...but still does not take away from the talent he was...
- 1991 National High School Player of Year
- Freshmen All American Team 1992
- Big 10 Freshmen of Year (first freshmen ever to lead the Big 10 in rebounding)
- 2x All Big 10 First team
- First Team All American 1993 sophomore
- 1993 Wooden Award Finalist
- 1992 and 1993 NCAA All Tournament Team
- Scrimmaged against the original Dream Team where he held his own against Barkley and Malone...getting high praise from the Dream Team.
- 1993 NBA #1 Overall pick by the Orlando Magic traded on draft day to Golden State Warriors
- '93 - '94 NBA Rooke of the Year (first NBA rookie to score 1,000 points, 500 rebounds, 250 assists, 150 blocks and 75 steals plus in a season)
- 1993-'94 NBA All Rookie First Team
- 1994 NBA Rookie Game Co-MVP
- 5x NBA All Star
- First Team All NBA 2001
- 2nd Team All NBA 3x's (1999, '02 and '03)
- 3rd Team All NBA 2000
- 1999 NBA Rebounding Champion (13.0)
- 2008 ESPN poll ranked Chris Webber #11 best PF ever to play in NBA
- 2003 Slam Magazine ranked Webber #64 best player of all time out of 75
- 831 career games * 20.7 ppg * 9.8 rpg * 4.2 apg * 1.4 bpg * 1.4 spg *
- 80 career playoff games * 18.7 ppg * 8.7 rpg * 3.6 apg * 1.1 spg and bpg *
Thanks for all the great memories number 4 will always live!
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