Chris Webber is another player I originally thought would finish much higher in my rankings.
After all, he averaged nearly 20-10 for his entire career. He had five seasons where he averaged more than 23 per game. He led the league in rebounding in 1998-1999. He was on 10 playoff teams and got MVP votes in five seasons.
But he never really put together a complete season – regular season and playoffs – and that drove him down the rankings.
After helping the Fab Five at Michigan make two Final Fours (and call one unfortunate timeout), Webber was the No. 1 pick by the Orlando Magic, who immediately traded him to Golden State for Penny Hardaway and three first round picks. Webber helped lead Golden State to the playoffs, but he butted heads with coach Don Nelson and forced the Warriors to trade him to the Washington Bullets for Tom Gugliotta.
Webber put up big numbers in Washington, but the Warriors made the playoffs just once, getting swept out of the first round in 1996-1997. That deprived Webber of valuable playoff points in this system.
Webber was on the move again in 1998, traded to Sacramento for Mitch Richmond and Otis Thorpe – a disastrous trade for the Bullets. Webber didn’t want to go to the Kings, but the Kings also brought in Peja Stojakovic and Vlade Divac and became a perennial playoff team.
Webber though was streaky in the playoffs. His best regular season was 2000-2001 when his PER hit a career high 24.7, he had 11.0 Win Shares, a Box +/- and VORP of 4.9 and finished fourth in the MVP voting. His playoff PER dropped to 14.6 and he actually had a negative Box +/- as the Kings lost in the second round of the playoffs.
In my system, 2001-2002 ended up being his best year. Even though his playoff stats still didn’t equal his regular season numbers, they remained all-star level and the Kings made it to the Western Conference Finals where they lost to the Shaq-Kobe Lakers in seven games. Webber averaged 24.3 points, 10.9 rebounds and 6.3 assists in the series.
The Kings were poised to make another deep run in 2002-2003 when Webber, who’d suffered a major injury with Washington back in 1995-1996 that robbed him of his explosiveness, went down to another knee injury in the second round against the Dallas Mavericks. The Mavericks eventually won the series in seven games and Webber never was the same player. He ended his career with stops in Philadelphia, Detroit and then one final nine-game stretch back in Golden State.
|
Chris Webber bio info |
|
|
Career |
1993-2008 |
|
Games |
831 |
|
Points |
20.7 |
|
Rebounds |
9.8 |
|
Assists |
4.2 |
|
FG Pct. |
47.9% |
|
All-Star Games |
5 |
|
MVPs |
0 |
|
NBA titles |
0 |
|
Playoff seasons |
10 |
|
Playoff games |
80 |
|
Points |
18.7 |
|
Rebounds |
8.7 |
|
Assists |
3.6 |
|
FG Pct. |
46.4 |
|
Hall of Fame |
|
|
Top 100 rankings |
||
|
|
Points |
Top 100 ranking |
|
1-year |
305.11 |
78th |
|
5-year |
1,325.84 |
82nd |
|
10-year |
2,256.22 |
76th |
|
Career |
2,743.45 |
68th |
|
Chris Webber at his peak |
|||
|
2001-2002 |
Webber |
Top 5 |
Points |
|
PER |
24.4 |
25.98 |
|
|
Win Shares |
8.6 |
14.17 |
|
|
Box +/- |
6.2 |
6.75 |
|
|
VORP |
4.3 |
6.63 |
|
|
Total Advanced Stats |
43.5 |
53.52 |
81.27 |
|
Playoff PER |
22.1 |
26.96 |
|
|
Win Shares |
2.2 |
2.64 |
|
|
Box +/- |
5.7 |
7.39 |
|
|
VORP |
1.3 |
1.48 |
|
|
Total Advanced Stats |
31.3 |
38.47 |
81.36 |
|
Reg. Season Win % |
77.78 |
|
77.78 |
|
Playoff Win % |
62.50 |
|
62.50 |
|
MVP Voting (75 points) |
37/1,260 |
|
2.20 |
|
Playoff MVP (25 points) |
0 |
0 |
|
|
Total Score |
|
|
305.11 |
|
Webber’s 10 greatest seasons |
|
|
2001-2002 |
305.11 |
|
1999-2000 |
276.90 |
|
2002-2003 |
272.97 |
|
2000-2001 |
261.57 |
|
2006-2007 |
209.28 |
|
1993-1994 |
203.96 |
|
2003-2004 |
193.43 |
|
1996-1997 |
192.24 |
|
1998-1999 |
187.85 |
|
2004-2005 |
152.91 |
|
Career winning percentage |
|||
|
|
W |
L |
Pct. |
|
Regular Season |
472 |
359 |
56.80% |
|
Playoffs |
40 |
40 |
50.00% |
No comments:
Post a Comment