Jalen and C-Webb appear to bury the hatchet
Pretty awesome seeing these two talking again. Looking forward to the complete Fab Five reunion hopefully sometime soon.
Maybe this is a homer take, but one has got to think that Juwan coming back to coach Michigan greatly accelerated or forced the healing process between the Five Fab and it's great to see. Fab Five reunion is going to be exciting
Yes as soon as Juwan got the job it seemed like only a matter of time. Also, if he keeps winning it’s going to be hard for the school to tell him “no” to putting the banners back up/having a reunion.
Very happy to see this!!!!]
For sure. Wish they had t lost so much time. Just watched Shaq talk about not calling people enough after he learned of Kobe’s death. Life is so short, so it’s sad to see people hold off for so long.
Both of them had great careers in the NBA and both fun to listen to as analysts. Glad to see Webber get into the hall of fame too. The Fab Five had such an impact, and it’s great to see one of them recognized as the hall of famer he is.
Ahh, peace and healing.
Now hang those damn banners.
HTDB!
Please don’t.
Shut up nerd
Don't be one of those people that still self-flagellates over Ed Martin even now. Mary Sue Coleman and Bill Martin did enough self-flagellation for the entirety of the old guard.
I'd love to hear your reasoning supporting this comment. Either way Chuck Norris wants them hung.
My reason is this. Whether everyone else was doing it or not, ultimately the team was breaking the rules. We will all remember those years, they were a ton of fun. However, we should not celebrate them. If you hang the banners you are saying it is not just okay to break the rules, you should be celebrated for it. That is not what Michigan stands for, that is not what Michigan is.
I loved the fab five, I hope they all come back together and see a few games. But we can’t celebrate an era that sunk Michigan basketball for over a decade.
The banners were removed because young men got paid. They got paid by a scumbag because they were HS kids and didn't know any better. Soon, college athletes will be getting paid for NIL anyway.
They played the games fair and square, and they deserve the honor and dignity that goes with those banners.
Stop the holier than thou bullshit.
The person in question with regard to the banners is Mr. Webber, who was very much a college kid at the time. Mr. Webber got significant amounts of money, much more than anyone else from this guy, for seemingly nothing. He did not sell his name or imaging rights. Martin was not looking to influence him to go to Michigan. The story goes that he was just trying to latch on to a future NBA player. But Mr. Martin was heavily connected to the mafia and their gambling activities. Mr. Martin would be killed in jail, likely for his connection to this mafia gambling activity. Yet we want to sell off this connection to a huge amount of money to Chris Webber as just a kid looking for a little money. Call me skeptical.
So dont put the banners up because of your hunch huh? Cool.
Please note the fact that 'vablue' != '1VaBlue1' - that person is different from me, so don't equate us! I do not agree with his thoughts here...
HTDB
You should have been a bit more unique in your name choice.
He does have the '1's' though...
/s
They’re brothers. Brothers fight. But brothers love each other and come back to each other too.
that's what both have said many times. That's their take on it, so that's my take on it. So glad to see them back together.
Tell that to Remus.
Underrated comment, KBLOW!
Thanks for sharing. It is worth clicking and watching the video segment, you can see C-Webb is really moved by Jalen’s comments.
Forgiveness is a beautiful thing
These guys are like brothers... you can having a fallout with family, but ultimately blood wins out...I think their relationship is complicated like that.
Glad that they are on their way to reconciliation.
here's the full ESPN clip.
I can't get enough of the Fab Five love. It's real.
Also, damn, look at that NBA center running the court and putting the ball behind his back and dunking on people. Young guns that didn't get to watch Webber live (or the Fab Five more generally) probably don't understand how good he was. Webber had the best hands of any big man in the history of the NBA. NFL TE All Pro quality. He was so powerful and explosive, so long, but he was smooth and graceful too. He was the first player of his type. There have been better big men of course, but he was individual and unique. He was injured in the NBA and that really did bring an end to his explosiveness.
All love and appreciation for what the Fab Five have brought to my life.
https://twitter.com/CurtisSheehan/status/1393979593242157059
Young guns also probably don’t know that Webber was the guy who The Dream Team (yes THAT Dream Team: Jordan, Magic, Bird. Admiral, Ewing) could not handle when they had their famous scrimmages to prep for the 1992 Olympics. That was no small part of his mystique.
Those hands were just bonkers. His passing ability for a big in that era was off the charts.
I remember hearing that at the time and thinking it was cool. Thanks for the reminder.
He would have been one of the all time greats without the injury.
JRose posted the full 6 minute segment, so damn good to see
https://twitter.com/JalenRose/status/1394000927087017987
Wow that was beautiful. When Jalen asked him what his favorite moments were and CWebb started going on about all the people he needed to thank, I though he was just overwhelmed and didn’t register the question. But when he said that the games wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for them I really got emotional. Such grace
Also seemed that he may even have been more emotional about seeing Jalen than about the HoF call but maybe I’m projecting
This will probably get negged to hell, but I want to say it:
It struck me that he thanked the police men that played with him in particular. I wonder what can be done to reunite communities with their police, what do you think the odds are that this generation's Chris Webber would play ball with some cops, or that cops would take interest in a kid like that?
I mean I don't have any statistics to share, but there are hundred of recent videos out there of cops playing ball with kids in inner city communities. It's probably more common than you think.
Thanks, that's good to hear. I didn't know that, but given how high temperatures have been running lately, I worried that these kind of community relationship things would be hurting.
E. M. Forster: "Only connect."
Damn, it got dusty up in here.
Congrats to C Webb.
I'm not crying. You're crying!
Damn that gave me chills.
Still wish the Magic would have never traded C-Webb. Him and Shaq together would have been like having Robinson and Duncan together in their prime. All the Magic had to do was surround them with shooters and they would have multiple championships.
On topic, very happy to see Jalen and C-Webb reconcile. Icing on the cake to the well deserved HOF induction. Go Blue!
Duncan IS Robinson. Finkel IS Einhorn!
They already had the shooters
2021 will always be remembered, by me, as a awesome year for the Hall of Fame:
NFL - Former Michigan Legend....Charles Woodson made it in.
Former Detroit Legend.....Calvin Johnson made it in
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NBA - Former Michigan Legend......Chris Webber made it in.
Former Detroit Legend.....Ben Wallace made it in
*Neither the NHL nor MLB had ANYONE make the hall of fame, in their respective 2021 classes*
Powerful. Great interview with two grown men. Loved them both back in the day and glad they are in each other’s good graces.
I fucking *Geeked* when I saw this exchange. Not sorry.
This gave me fuzzy feelings...glad to see this. It just goes to show that brothers never lose love for each other
The fact that C-Webb had to wait so long, relatively speaking in HOF, 8 years, to finally be acknowledged in this way, is wonderful, in that he can still celebrate it with others. That basketball, as a collective whole, tends to celebrate anyone's enshrinement rather than having the gatekeeping of the Baseball Hall of Fame, is also wonderful.
There will be a full reunion one day at Crisler and it will be glorious.
Maybe to hang this years B1G banner, or has that already happened?
Banners are normally raised the next season.
When they said they loved each other at the end of the video...oh man...
GET A ROOM!