Remembering the player Chris Webber isn't that hard. He is propably the best passing big man who ever set a foot on the NBA hardwood, his career numbers (20.9 points, 9.8 rebounds and 4.3 assists) are staggering and live up to almost every hype the 6-10 power forward faced throughout his career. He was always entertaining, smiling and he just looked like he always had fun playing basketball. But C-Webb's legacy will never be just about his play. Thinking of Chris Webber there's always this little sore taste, may it be because of his infamous timeout in the NCAA National Championship game 1993 or because of his legal troubles (some of which resulted in the deleting of Webber's college records) over the years or this one missing NBA championship on which great players like him get judged upon. Even though he is clearly one of the great talents in the last 20 years, he was always hampered by injuries (like the knee injury that ultimatively is ending his career now) and the problems that always slowed him down will never be forgotten. In today's media you often just read about the miscues and the bad stuff concerning an athlete and his career, especially when we are talking about a guy in Webber who never really was a media favorite. People will joke about his timeout and knock him for his errors many decades from now. And Webber made mistakes, that's out of question.But as a fan, as a basketball fan, I try to remember Webber's best years which were in Sacramento where he led some outstanding Kings teams to the top of Western Conference. These teams played some of the best team basketball that you can imagine and CWebb was a key part of those squads. I don't know the person Chris Webber, but I will clearly miss the player Chris Webber, who was nothing short of spectacular and worth every minute you watched him on the court.
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