Fab 5 to Reunite Saturday
Fab Five To Reunite At Chris Webber's Hall Of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony
After an eight-year wait to be selected for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, former Michigan star Chris Webber will be inducted into the hall this weekend. The Wolverines' Fab Five — comprised of Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Ray Jackson and Jimmy King — has waited even longer to reunite, but that's slated to happen this Saturday (Sept. 11) as well, Webber told The Athletic.
https://michigan.rivals.com/news/fab-five-to-reunite-at-chris-webber-s-…
https://theathletic.com/2814683/2021/09/09/chris-webber-unplugged-on-th…
September 9th, 2021 at 12:02 PM ^
I literally just read an article on ESPN that said he and Rose hadn't talked it out yet. So, is that outdated or are the other articles kind of jumping to conclusions because they will all be there and are therefore together?
September 9th, 2021 at 12:07 PM ^
Per Chris Webber in that article. Seems like it's true.
We’re back together. Juwan is the coach. It wasn’t that we weren’t together. There’s never been a time when we weren’t communicating, all five of us. I’m part of the basketball team because Juwan is there. You’re going to see us together a lot. I’m very happy that those guys are coming to the Hall of Fame to be with me. It’s a long journey and the most important thing is for Juwan to be successful, do right by his young men and to win.
September 9th, 2021 at 12:16 PM ^
Same article:
Webber: ESPN didn't tell me [Jalen] was going to interview me. So they kept saying, 'Here comes [host Maria Taylor], Maria ... 5, 4, 3 ...' and then I hear, 'What up?' And it was [Jalen]. So it was a cool moment. I mean, I talk to his family, his sister, you know, all the time. Him and I still have to talk. Like, things don't get repaired without talking. So that's not the way to do it, to interview me on camera and not go into a room.
I'm a man, man. You know what I'm saying? My father raised me. So my father would not be happy with me talking to you right now in front of everybody without going into a room first. And we didn't do that. And we will do that because hopefully he'll come to the thing and we're gonna get together. But I'm sorry to keep busting the world's bubble, we haven't spoken yet. And when we do, it'll probably be all good. But that moment for me, it was an honor that my boy is on TV doing this thing. It was an honor to be there.
September 9th, 2021 at 8:23 PM ^
If his father raised him to be 'a man', why hasnt he been able to find the time to man up and have that conversation in the last 20+ years?
September 9th, 2021 at 12:03 PM ^
Has anyone told Jalen?
September 9th, 2021 at 2:48 PM ^
According to CW, they is more peace to be made on this front. CWebb says a 30 minute conversation could bury the hatchet forever, so I have my fingers crossed it may happen this time.
September 9th, 2021 at 5:58 PM ^
I thought they hugged it out a few months ago? There's still stuff unresolved?
September 9th, 2021 at 12:04 PM ^
About time!
Hang the banners.
Hang the numbers.
September 9th, 2021 at 12:45 PM ^
I think they've been waiting until they can do it all in a packed Crisler Arena. It's going to happen this season, IMO.
September 9th, 2021 at 12:56 PM ^
It’s going to be epic. Can’t wait.
From the sounds of it, they will try to help support Juwan to be as successful as possible.
September 10th, 2021 at 8:06 AM ^
hang the banners or don't hang them, they aren't National Championship banners anyway
September 9th, 2021 at 12:07 PM ^
Long overdue.
September 9th, 2021 at 12:26 PM ^
Great news
September 9th, 2021 at 12:43 PM ^
Maybe they'll jet up to AA afterwards and catch the Wash game together.
September 9th, 2021 at 1:11 PM ^
Long overdue!
September 9th, 2021 at 1:16 PM ^
Finally.
Hang those banners and Go Blue!
September 9th, 2021 at 1:28 PM ^
Great to hear.... I having been hoping for a Reunion of the Fab Five for a long time.
September 9th, 2021 at 1:29 PM ^
GO BLUE!!!
September 9th, 2021 at 1:42 PM ^
They should reunite at a big home game, hang the banners for a national TV audience and a big recruiting group.
September 9th, 2021 at 6:01 PM ^
Jan 8 2022.
Fuck you tiny Tom!
September 9th, 2021 at 2:09 PM ^
The OP headline led me to believe that the reunion was taking place at the tackle football game this Saturday.
I'd like to speak with a manager, please.
September 9th, 2021 at 2:26 PM ^
Did you also expect cake?
September 9th, 2021 at 3:24 PM ^
I was led to believe there would be punch and pie.
September 9th, 2021 at 3:23 PM ^
This pleases me.
September 9th, 2021 at 4:29 PM ^
it's childish to hold a grudge. Should have never existed.
September 9th, 2021 at 4:52 PM ^
Welp....
UM athletic director Warde Manuel: 'I made no apology to Chris (Webber)'
"A day after former Michigan Fab Five star Chris Webber said in a report that Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel privately apologized to him, Manuel said that is false."
September 9th, 2021 at 5:10 PM ^
Double welp.
Neither one should have spoken about it (whether it happened at all or not) if it was, as Webber described it, a private apology.
September 9th, 2021 at 6:04 PM ^
I also wonder how much of that is the legal department saying ummmm, Warde, we have a problem here with a recent ESPN article.
My original comment though in another thread still applies. Didn't believe for a second what Webber supposedly said in that interview.
September 9th, 2021 at 5:47 PM ^
Hang the banners.
September 9th, 2021 at 5:58 PM ^
Yes. Hang ALL the banners.
September 9th, 2021 at 7:36 PM ^
I’m just full of optimism. Juwan is taking home the title for Michigan this year! I feel it in my bones. What a journey for these guys. I love the way God writes stories!
How awesome would it be to hang a 2022 National Champion banner from a team Juwan coached, and on the same day, go ahead and hang the Fab 5 banners with it!
September 9th, 2021 at 9:53 PM ^
I like the sound of this. It was, is, and always will be a special group, and they created a special era. It's great they want to rally around Coach Juwan too. As it should be.
September 10th, 2021 at 8:15 PM ^
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Love Juwann and the current team