C-webb is finally hangin' up whatever sorry ass shoes he wears now.
He was one of my favorite players until he stopped wearing nikes and then later, started takin' nothin but outside jumpshots.
Still.....
Black socks >
longer shorts >>
Webber, battling chronic knee problems, calls it a career
What Chris Webber and the Golden State Warriors hoped would be a storybook comeback will instead be remembered as a very short comeback story.
After playing just nine games back in the Bay Area, Webber is retiring.
New problems with the surgically repaired left knee that has plagued him for the past half-decade have prompted the linchpin of Michigan's famed Fab Five team to leave the game, not even two months after Webber returned to the team and city where he began his NBA career.
"I really didn't want to rehab and come back this season because I don't think that was possible," Webber told reporters Wednesday at a farewell news conference in Oakland. "Plus, because the way the team is playing, the chemistry is great with these guys, they're on a roll. I feel like they're going to win, they have a great chance to go very far in the playoffs. I just felt it was time to let the game go and be able to be happy about what I accomplished without trying to keep coming back."
How will Chris Webber be remembered? For his failures more than anything else, J.A. Adande writes. Story
The 35-year-old will exit as one of the sport's most polarizing personalities but also as one of just six players in history -- along with Hall of Famers Wilt Chamberlain, Elgin Baylor, Larry Bird and Billy Cunningham and the still active Kevin Garnett -- to average at least 20 points, nine rebounds and four assists.
"One of the best power forwards to ever play in the NBA," Pistons president Joe Dumars said. "Chris was always a class act and someone we're all proud of in Detroit."
Sources close to Webber told ESPN.com that he has worked toward this decision for the past week after spending most of March in injury rehab, trying in vain to recover from a bad landing against Philadelphia on Feb. 29. He played in only one more game for the Warriors after that, which convinced Webber that time had indeed run out a career that spanned 15 seasons, albeit with his mobility compromised over the last five of those seasons following a serious tear in the 2003 playoffs that required microfracture surgery
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3311954
lol @ that last pic
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