Former University of Michigan teammates and NBA stars Jalen Rose and Chris Webber are attempting to patch up a back-and-forth feud which really flared up upon the release of ESPN's “Fab Five” documentary in 2011.
Rose said he has been in contact with Webber and said he hopes to speak with him face-to-face so that they can mend their relationship. Their feud reportedly started to heal when former “Fab Five” teammate Juwan Howard was hired as the new head coach at Michigan.
“We’re in contact currently and we’re brothers,” Jalen Rose said of Chris Webber in an interview with Boston Globe, via Keith Smith of Pro Basketball Talk. “So I always feel like anything that we need to say needs to be face to face, eyeball to eyeball, without any distractions, without any hype, without any camera. That’s the big-boy way to do that. That’s my brother.”
Webber was not included in the “Fab Five” documentary in 2011, and his relationship with the university had soured over the course of the last few decades.
Michigan was stripped of their Final Four appearances in both 1992 and 1993 after the discovery of booster activity on behalf of Ed Martin, and Webber testified against Martin in a grand jury hearing.
Rose and some of his teammates — including Howard, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson — criticized Webber's testimony in the documentary, and the two have engaged in a war of words in previous years.
However, Rose has also continuously insisted he would love to get the band back together, and burying the hatchet with Webber seems to be the most crucial step.
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