ESPN Names Webber Top Draft Pick from B10 Since '89
Title says it all. Good pub for [redacted] Blue!
Mod edit: Added a link and changed the typo in the title. Also took a certain word modifying "Blue" out of the OP, since that's been good for like ten comments already. JGB.
http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/85548/big-ten…
Im more concerned about the mis-spelling of "Webber"
when the Kentucky connection comes up before the Giants.
Go Blue and Maize and Blue are fine, Big Blue is Kentucky for me.
In the future, I won't reference Michigan as the "Big Blue" on this blog but for the record there are many former Michigan Athletes and Alum who from time to time refer to Michigan as the "Big Blue."
Go Giants.
The first name in grilling.
Weber plays football.
For the sake of getting one comment in here on topic, my lasting memory of Webber in the NBA will be that 2002 Western Conference Finals series against the Lakers. One of the most entertaining (and frustrating) NBA serieseseseses I can remember.
"The Big Ten ranks last among the six power conferences in active NBA players (25) and first-round NBA draft picks (28) since 2000 -- the last year a Big Ten team won an NCAA title."
Wow, this surprised me. Hopefully the recent trend continues and the B1G is closer to the top of the list in 5-10 years. I know we'll do our fair share.
...but you're wrong. This forum requires a modicum of effort and attention to detail on the part of posters. Like correctly spelling the name of one of the most prominent Michigan athletes of the past few decades. Like knowing how to properly refer to the team you root for and post about. Like providing some insight into the referenced article besides "Title says it all."
Bottom line: If you don't want your thread to devolve into stupidity, don't encourage it.
I'm somewhere in the middle on this. I like that we police that stuff so that I don't have to cringe every time I read a thread, but there are better ways to police threads than have 20 people make the same comment, rendering the thread useless and unreadable. Just neg the damn thing and move on after the first couple of critical comments.
...with you. True negbombs would solve this, BTW. Crappy post, lose points. Simple as that.
To sort of tie this to a thread last night, it is interesting to note that the Michigan players on this ESPN list are some of the Wolverines who served the longest in the NBA as well. Chris Webber played 14 seasons, as did Glen Rice. Juwan Howard played for 18 seasons, and Jamal Crawford and Jalen Rose put in 12 seasons each. It would be great to see Burke and Hardaway and anyone in drafts in the coming years also be as long-lived in the league as these guys.
I would put Glen Rice a little bit higher than C-Web, but then again I am biased. Both were incredible NBA players, C-Webb one of the best big men in his era, and Glen, one of the best shooters ever. Big ten had some talent, Big Dog, Alan Henderson, Calbert Cheney, Jimmy Jackson, Nick Anderson, Kendal Gill...etc
But Webber almost averaged a double-double his entire NBA career, and those were not all great Bullets/Wizards and Kings teams. I'm a bit surprised some of the other guys never acheived stardom, especially Jimmy Jackson. And poor Nick Anderson. He went from a solid 70% FT shooter to about 40% after missing those free throws in the '95 Finals.