Mayce Edward Christopher Webber III (born March 1, 1973) is a former professional American basketball player. He is a five-time NBA All-Star, member of the All-NBA Team five times, former NBA Rookie of the Year, and former NBA's number one overall. As a college athlete, he is the All-American main team and leads a new student class at Michigan Wolverines 1991 known as the Fab Five who reached the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship in 1992 and 1993 as freshman and second year. However, Webber was indicted by a federal jury and removed all his honor by the NCAA as a result of his direct involvement in the Ed Martin scandal. She is also a former National High School Basketballer of the Year who leads Detroit Day High School for three Michigan State High School Basketball Championships. She also played high school basketball at Riverside Middle School in Dearborn Heights, Michigan where she won a city championship there in 1986.
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Webber attended Detroit Country Day School and was then Michigan's most recruited high school basketball player since Magic Johnson. Webber leads Country Day to three MHSAA State championships. As a senior in Webber high school averaged 29.4 points and 13 rebounds per game. He's named Michigan's Mr. Basketball and National SMA player 1990-1991 this year. He was named MVP in both McDonald's and Dapper and All-Star games.
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College career
After graduating from Detroit Country Day School, Webber studied at the University of Michigan for two years. While a Michigan Wolverine, Webber led a group of players known as the Fab Five, which included him, Juwan Howard, Jalen Rose, Jimmy King, and Ray Jackson. The group, all of whom entered Michigan as a freshman in the fall of 1991, took the basketball team to the NCAA final twice, losing both times. The Fab Five, sporting shorts, baggy shorts and black socks, are becoming very popular because they are seen bringing hip hop feel to the game. Four of the Fab Five (Webber, Rose, Howard, and King) made it to the NBA.
On 5 April 1993, in the second game of the NCAA Basketball Division II Division II man in a row with 11 seconds remaining, Webber brought the ball onto the pitch into a half court trap. Michigan fell 73-71. Webber attempted to call the timeout while his team had nothing left, resulting in technical violations that effectively seized the game for North Carolina. Webber continues to receive taunts for his time-out errors; when he joined Inside the NBA in 2008, part of the funny initiation ceremony was the question "In college basketball how much time do you get in a game?" (Webber replied, "I still do not know the answer!") His father has a license plate that says the deadline.
The game marks the end of a two-year college basketball career recognized by Webber. In his second season, he is the first team of All-American selection and finalists for John R. Wooden Award and Naismith College Player of the Year. This award and honor has been emptied because the sanctions of the University of Michigan and NCAA are linked to the University of Michigan basketball scandal. In the scandal, Webber receives more than $ 200,000 from a local booster while playing basketball for Michigan. Webber was punished for perjury and banned from affiliation with the Michigan program until 2013.
Although banned, Webber attended the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship between Michigan and Louisville. He apparently watched the game from his private room, rather than in the stands near the sidelines, where another member of Fab Five watched the game together. Webber posted on Twitter before the game: "I'm here at the Georgia Dome to show my support for the Michigan men's basketball team in their quest for the National Championship.I've known a few players on the team since they were kids, and I'm excited for them and all the student athletes on tonight's field wearing Michigan uniforms.This is a great season and I wish them all the best. " NBA Career>
Webber was selected by Orlando Magic by first picking the 1993 NBA draft, becoming a first year student since Magic Johnson became the # 1 overall pick design. The Magic immediately traded it to the Golden State Warriors in return for Penny Hardaway and three first-round releases in the future. During his 15-year NBA career, Webber earned more than $ 176 million.
Golden State Warriors
Webber had a remarkable first year, averaging 17.5 points and 9.1 rebounds per game and winning the NBA Rookie of the Year Award. He was instrumental in leading the Warriors back into the playoffs where they were swept by Phoenix Suns led by Charles Barkley in three games. However, he has a prolonged conflict with his coach, Don Nelson. Nelson wants to make Webber a major player, despite his exceptional Webber passing ability and excellent ball handling skills for a person with a size of 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) tall. Webber also does not like to play a large amount of time in the center, given Nelson's tendency towards smaller, faster line ups. In the 1994 season, Warriors acquired Rony Seikaly so Webber can play primarily on power forward. However, at the time, the difference between Webber and Nelson was considered irreconcilable. Webber carries out a one-year clause escaping in his contract, stating that he has no intention of returning to the Warriors. With some alternatives, Golden State approved a sign-and-trade deal, sending Webber to Washington Bullets (renamed Wizards in 1997) to forward Tom Gugliotta and three first-round draft picks. Washington Washington Bullets/Wizards Washington Bullets/Wizards
Webber traded in his second year to Washington Bullets where he met with his teammates and his friend, Juwan Howard. He spent the next three years with Bullets (later renamed the Washington Wizards), although in the 1995-96 injury season kept him limited to just 15 games. Webber rebounded the following year and was named for his first All-Star team in 1997. The same season, Webber led Bullets into the playoffs for the first time in nine years, but they were swept by the Chicago Bulls led by Michael Jordan in three games. In 1998, Webber had established itself as a major force ahead, but his time in Washington was also obsolete.
Sacramento Kings
On May 14, 1998, Webber traded to the Sacramento Kings for Mitch Richmond and Otis Thorpe. Although Webber initially did not want to go to Sacramento, because they are a team that continues to lose, he has his best years in Sacramento and almost brings Kings to the NBA Finals.
When Webber arrived, the Kings also signed a small Peja Stojakovi forward? and concentrate Vlade Divac, and set up point guard Jason Williams. In its first year with the Kings (short-locked 1998-99 season), Webber won an average rebound of 13.0 rebounds per game, ending Dennis Rodman for seven years as the NBA rebound leader. Under the guidance of Rick Adelman, the Kings team made it into the 1999 Playoffs, where they lost to the Utah Jazz led by the future hall of famers Karl Malone and John Stockton.
In the coming years, Webber and The Kings become one of the league's top franchises, and NBA title contenders. He was appointed to the All-Star team again in 2000 and 2001 while strengthening his status as one of the main strengths in the NBA. For Webber season 1999-2000 is a cover athlete at NBA Jam 2000 ; That season, Webber led the Kings to 44 victories to boost their winning column from a year earlier, and into the first round of Playoff 2000 where they face the Los Angeles Lakers. After losing the first two games of the series in Los Angeles, Kings won the next two in Sacramento, including 23 points, 14 rebounds, 7 blocks, 8 assists and 4 steals from Webber in game four, to send the series back to Los Angeles for the 5th match The Kings lost Game 5 and the series to the Lakers who then won the championship that year.
Webber peaked in the 2000-01 season, when he scored an average of 27.1 points. He also averaged 11.1 rebounds and a fourth in MVP voting, while starting forward for the Western All-Star Team in the 2001 All-Star Game in Washington. In the 2001 Playoffs, Webber and Kings beat the Phoenix Suns in four first-half games to advance to the second round (the first time his career he advanced through the first half), where they faced the Los Angeles Lakers for the second year in a row. The Kings lost four games to the Lakers despite Webber 21 points, 11 rebounds and 8 assists in four games.
On July 27, 2001, Webber signed a $ 127 million, seven-year contract with the Kings. In the 2001-02 season, Webber played in 54 games that led the Kings to a Pacific division title and a league (and league best) 61-21 season record. He also made his fourth All-Star team and the Second Team All-NBA. In 2002 the Playoffs the Kings beat Utah Jazz in four games and the Dallas Mavericks in five games in the first two rounds on the way to reach the Western Conference Final against their archirles, defending champions Los Angeles Lakers led by Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O 'Neal, the series to be proved to be one of the most impressive (and most controversial) in NBA History. The series is nip and tuck all the way because both teams traded win in the first six games of the series as the Lakers won the game one, four (highlighted by the winner of the match from Robert Horry) and six (a game featuring many controversial calls, including a foul on the final game on Mike Bibby) after he bleeds from being nudged in the nose by Bryant. All told, the Lakers fired 27 free throws in fourth quarter NBA Commissioner David Stern rejected Donaghy's allegations. Lawrence Pedowitz, who led a leading league review after the outbreak of the scandal, concluded that when Game 6 was a poorly concealed, there was no concrete proof that it had been fixed. Former NBA referee Tim Donaghy, who was brought to court in 2008, said Game 6 was set by the NBA.), While Kings won two, three and five, including 29 points, 13 rebounds and 3 assists from Webber plus match winners from teammate Mike Bibby in game five, heading into the decisive seventh game at ARCO Arena in Sacramento, a game that proved to be the most impressive series. The game is bitten and tucked all the way by recording Webber 20 points 11 assists 8 rebounds 2 blocks and 1 steals and Bryant and O'Neal recording 30 points 10 rebounds 7 assists and 2 steals with 35 points 13 rebounds 4 blocks and 2 assists, respectively, as the game ended with a missed shot from teammate Stojakovic and Doug Christie, making a last-minute clash with Webber fouling O'Neal with 1:27 left in overtime causing O'Neal to make a free throw and Kings will continue lost Game 7 from the series at home. It was the closest thing Webber had ever had to a championship.
In the following season, Webber averaged 23 points and 11 rebounds per game. He was quoted as a MVP candidate, and made his fifth All-Star team in a row. In a bad omen of what will happen, Webber missed an All Star game with a sprained ankle. Nevertheless, he returned and Kings were one of the favorites to win the NBA Championship. In the second match of the 2003 Western Conference Semifinals against the Dallas Mavericks, Webber suffered a career-threatening knee injury while running down an untouched road that forced him to miss almost a year of action. This destroys the King's expectations, and they lose seven games.
After a microfracture operation, he returned for the final 23 games of the 2003-04 season, where he led the Kings (who went 55-27 seasons) to the 2004 playoffs where they faced their archrivals Dallas Mavericks for the third year in a row, the Kings defeated the Mavericks in five tense entertaining matches in the first round on the way to reach the Western Conference Semifinals against the Minnesota Timberwolves top seeds led by MVP league Kevin Garnett, a series that will prove to be one of the most memorable in NBA history. Every game is neck and neck with both teams winning trades in the first six games of the series when the Timberwolves win two, three and five games, while Kings win one game, four and six, including 28 points 8 rebounds 1 assist 3 steals and 1 block from Webber in game four, heading into the decisive seventh game at Target Center in Minnesota, a game that proved to be the most impressive series, this game nip and tucked all the way with Webber recording 16 points 8 rebounds 4 assists and 1 stealing and Garnett on the other side recorded 32 points 21 rebounds 2 assists 4 steals and 5 boiling blocks to the last game of the game with Kings Left Timberwolves with 0.2 seconds left in the game, having received inbounds via Webber Pump-faked Garnett in the air and got a clean look when Garnett avoided contact for the three-pointed shots that went off when the last buzz sounded and Kings lost Game 7 and series, marking the third year in the row the Kings lost the decisive game 7. It turned out that this was the last chance that the Webber-led Kings had to win the championship and he traded the following season, resulting in his team being dismantled the following season.
Philadelphia 76ers
In February 2005, Webber was traded, along with Michael Bradley and Matt Barnes, to the Philadelphia 76ers for power forward Kenny Thomas, forward/center Brian Skinner, and former King Corliss Williamson. Webber took the time to adjust to the 76ers offense, where he was the second appraisal option, behind Allen Iverson. He finally helped catapult the Sixers to a spot in the 2005 playoffs, where the Sixers lost to the Detroit Pistons. However, they did not reach the playoffs in 2006, despite Webber reinstalling 20 points and 10 rebounds per game. Due to microfracture surgery on his knee, Webber loses his lateral velocity and jumping ability. While he still has offensive skills, he is seen as a defensive responsibility and is usually demoted for the 4th quarter. This led to Webber reportedly calling for trade.
On Tuesday, April 18, 2006, Webber and Iverson were fined for not appearing at the last Philadelphia 76ers home game of the season, the Fan Appreciation Night, although both were injured and not expected to play. The next day they both apologized for not being present.
During the 2006-07 season Webber played only 18 of 35 games for the Sixers leading the media to question his motivation. On January 11, 2007, Sixers GM Billy King announced that Sixers and Webber had approved the purchase of a $ 25 million contract on the remaining two years remaining on his contract, which meant paying him not to play. Later that day, the Sixers freed Webber, making him a free agent.
Detroit Pistons
On January 16, 2007, Webber signed with the Detroit Pistons. He has declared throughout his career that he always wanted to play for his home team. His usual number four had been retired to honor Joe Dumars, so Webber wore the number 84, because his niece dreamed of him making a buzzer buzzer with that number. The Pistons were a much better basketball team after Webber's acquisition, increasing their record in the Eastern Conference and establishing the first seed in the East. However, Eastern Region favorites failed to advance to the finals after losing to the Cleveland Cavaliers in six games in the Eastern Conference Finals, making Webber unable to perform in the NBA Finals. Indeed, Webber performed well in the 2007 playoff despite receiving limited minutes. Webber still managed an average of 10 points and 6 rebounds per game in the playoffs and shot an impressive 52.4% of the field. His efforts were highlighted by a 5-game performance in the Eastern Conference Finals where Webber scored 20 points (including 5 points in the double-overtime period) on 9 of 13 shots and grabbed 7 boards. Nevertheless, Detroit still lost what turned out to be a key game in the series in double overtime and Webber ended up averaging a career of 11.2 PPG low in running it with the Pistons. During the off-season, Detroit does not re-enter Webber. Despite receiving favorable proposals from teams in Europe, he is in free agent at the start of the regular season.
Run second with Warriors and next retirement
On January 29, 2008, Golden State Warriors signed Webber for the remainder of the season. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the San Francisco Chronicle reported that it would receive a pro-rata veteran at least $ 1.2 million (about $ 570,000). This comes after an offer rejected by the Los Angeles Lakers who try to persuade Webber with two 10-day contracts so they can decide after that if they want it the rest of the season. It also stopped the talks to join the Detroit Pistons, Dallas Mavericks, or retire. He played in just nine games for the Warriors, averaging 3.9 points and 3.6 rebounds in 14 minutes per game.
On March 25, 2008, Webber officially retired from basketball due to persistent problems with his surgically repaired knee and released by Warriors. On March 27, 2008, Webber made his first television appearance on Inside the
On February 6, 2009, Webber returned to ARCO Arena, the Sacramento Kings headquarters, to participate in a ceremony surrounding his retirement jersey, # 4.
Legal issues
In 1998, Webber was arrested and charged with second-degree attacks, arrested for arrest, possession of marijuana, driving under marijuana influence and five other traffic-related violations after being withdrawn for speeding on the way to the training center at MCI. Center in downtown Washington, DC Webber was finally released by a jury of attacks, refusing the arrest, possession of marijuana and driving under the influence of influence, and paying a $ 560 fine for a lesser offense.
Then in 1998 during a quiet season, while leaving Puerto Rico on a promotional tour for Fila sneakers, Webber paid a $ 500 fine after US Customs discovered marijuana in his bag. As soon as Fila dropped Webber as an endorser, a three-member arbitrator panel gave Webber $ 2.61 million for breach of contract.
University of Michigan basketball scandal
In 2002, Webber was charged with lying to the jury as part of a larger investigation into gambling operations, run by Michigan basketball program booster Ed Martin, at Ford Motor Company's Detroit area. The investigation, initially focused on number operations and tax evasion, soon expanded to include the University of Michigan basketball program. Martin was found guilty of tax evasion and tax robbery and was scheduled to testify about the financial relationship between himself and Webber at the verdict, but died of a heart attack before the trial.
As a result of the evidence received during Martin's trial, Webber pleaded guilty to a criminal offense for lying about his role in a scandal in which four players, including himself, have received a dark loan from Martin. Martin has given money to Webber since the 8th grade. He admits in his defense that in 1994 he gave Martin about $ 38,000 in cash as a partial payment for Martin's expenditure on his behalf. He was ordered to pay $ 100,000.00 and do 330 hours of community service.
Due to concerns that Webber's amateur status has been compromised, Michigan lost victory in the 1992 Final Four over Cincinnati, as well as runner-up status in the 1992 tournament. Michigan also lost the 1992-93 season, removing the 1992 and 1993 Final Four banners from the Crisler Arena cafade, and remove Webber's records from his record books. The NCAA also ordered Michigan to split from Webber until 2013. Webber later called Michigan's decision "painful" because he and his Fab Five colleagues "gave everything to Michigan" as they played there.
After Webber's appeal, the Michigan State High School Athletics Association (MHSAA) recommends that Detroit Country Day lose all games where Webber appears (including three state championships), because according to his own admission, Webber has received money from Martin since junior high. school. The school conducted its own investigation, and held a press conference to announce that they had found "no reliable evidence" that Webber had received "substantial" cash amount from Martin when in high school, and therefore refused to lose any games. MHSAA claims that it has no legal authority to force the game to be canceled.
Webber was suspended by the NBA for a total of eight matches - five for unlawful violations of league substance abuse policy and three for lying to the grand jury. Webber received a suspension after he recovered from an injury that kept him out for half the 2003-04 season.
The scandal was explored in a documentary by ESPN Films titled The Fab Five , which was broadcast in March 2011. In it, the University of Michigan repeated its position that would not be related to Webber until he publicly apologized for his role in scandal by Ed Martin, with a self-imposed 10-year ban on his relationship with the rest of the cast that ended in 2013. Webber refused to participate in the documentary.
Legacy
Webber averaged 20.7 points, 9.8 rebounds and 4.2 assists during his NBA career. Golden State Warriors did not make the playoffs during the first 12 years after they traded Webber. In 1997, he led Washington to their first playoff appearance since 1989. They will not reach the playoffs again until 2005, seven years after Webber's trade. Prior to Webber's arrival in 1998, The Kings made the playoffs only twice (1985 and 1996) since they moved to Sacramento from Kansas City in 1985.
Webber was ranked # 64 at SLAM Magazine Top 75 NBA Players of all time in 2003. He ranked # 11 in ESPN.com expert polls from up-front strength all the time in 2005 and ranked # 72 on the Top 96 list of NBA All-time players in Bill Simmons's best-seller
Sacramento Kings resigned the number 4 Webber jersey on February 6, 2009 when Kings hosted the Utah Jazz.
In 2014, he made another special appearance at the Kings residence with his former teammate Mike Bibby and both were honored that day.
Post-basket life
Since retiring from the NBA, Webber has become an analyst at NBA TV, NBA Gametime Live . He performed a Fan Night Tuesday with Ernie Johnson and Kevin McHale. He also serves as guest analyst occasionally (main) in TNT's Inside NBA from 2008-present. During Charles Barkley's absence leave, Webber replaced him along with other guests such as Gary Payton and Mike Fratello. Webber also expressed interest in eventually becoming GM and owner.
In August 2010, Webber played in the 2010 NBA Asia Challenge at Araneta Coliseum in Manila, an exhibition match that pitted NBA legends and NBA Development League players against the stars and legends of the Philippine Basketball Association.
Webber also said he was working on a book. Outside of basketball, Webber is active in his investment firm representing basketball and soccer players, real estate, and film projects. In 2011, it was reported that, the company had prepared investors to build a new arena for Kings.
Webber is the owner of Center Court With C-Webb, a restaurant in Sacramento, California. The restaurant closes on November 17, 2009. Earlier that year, Webber married his longtime girlfriend, Erika Dates, during a private ceremony at her home in Atlanta. The attendees were 200 guests including family and close friends.
Webber also tried his hand at music production, producing Nas "Surviving the Times" songs from the Greatest Hits album and Blunt Ashes from Hip Hop Is Dead .
By the end of 2016, Webber starts hosting Fearless or Insane in Podcast One.
African American artifact
Webber has a private collection of African-American artifacts that he began collecting in 1994. Upon entering the NBA, he began collecting artifacts, beginning with the purchase of two slave records. Webber believes that these artifacts are a reflection of his beliefs and aspirations. He initially gathers them as an impulse to face life's obstacles. However, he does not intend to show them until the growth of his collection encourages additional storage. The collection includes the 1901 original publication of autobiography by Booker T. Washington, documents, letters and postcards signed by Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X. While not in public exhibitions, the artifacts are stored in the Library Records Library General Sacramento. In previous years, Chris Webber's Collections had previously been featured at the Crocker Art Museum and Wayne State University.
On June 28, 2007, Webber launched a collection of African-American artifacts during the Celebrating Heritage Show at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African History in Detroit. During a press conference, Webber said he believes that children can learn from these artifacts, "Hopefully, when the kids see them, they'll see no reason for us to be unsuccessful There's no reason not to find something You like, there's no reason not to work hard. "
Charity
Webber was active in various charities and created The Timeout Foundation in 1993. The foundation's mission is to provide positive educational and recreational opportunities for young people.
In 1999, Webber made Crew C-Webb where a bunch of tickets in every Kings regular season match will be donated to risky teenagers and their families. To date, more than 3,000 young people and their families have attended the game through the C-Webb Crew.
Webber community awards have been won, including the Sacramento Kings/Oscar Robertson Triple Double award, each year awarded to Kings players who exemplify: team leadership, all-round games, and sportsmanship; The NBA Community Assist Award for his contribution in February 2003, and the Wish Maker of the Year award in 2003 was awarded by the Sacramento Chapter of the Make a Wish Foundation.
Recently, Webber held a celebrity weekend, Bada Bling!, At the Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas. The event was held from 28-30 July 2006 and included live auctions and celebrity poker tournaments. Many well-known NBA players participated including former teammates and former teammates: Mike Bibby, Brad Miller, Andre Iguodala, Bobby Jackson, Kyle Korver, and his then-current coach, Maurice Cheeks. Other important participants include Charles Barkley, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Gary Payton, Kenny Smith, Moses Malone, and Stephon Marbury. Many entertainers are present as well as Nas and Common. All proceeds are donated to The Timeout Foundation.
Webber hosted his second annual Bada Bling charity weekend from 20-22 July 2007 at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
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Discography
Webber has also produced hip hop recordings, including two songs for rapper Nas: "Blunt Ashes" and "Surviving the Times" and appeared in Webber drama of Naughty by the Grammy Award-winning Nature, Poverty's Paradise album.
Awards
- 5 times All-Star
- 5 times All-NBA - 2001 first team, 1999, 2002, & amp; Second team 2003, 2000 third team
- NBA Rookie of the Year (1994)
- First NBA All-Rookie Teams (1994)
- 1990-1991 National High School Players of the year
- Jersey: # 44 Detroit Country Day School, # 4 Sacramento Kings
- 1999 NBA rebounding champ (13.0 rpg)
NBA career statistics
Regular season
Playoffs
See also
- List of annual rebel leaders of the National Basketball Association
References
External links
- Official website
- Career statistics and player information from Basketball-Reference.com
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