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Webber also spent time with the football program as its guest before the game.
He did not meet with the Michigan basketball team or staff, but despite this, head coach John Beilein stated that "I think it was a great step in the right direction that he was here."
After Juwan Howard, teammate of Webber from the Fab Five, took over as head coach in 2019, Webber indicated to TMZ that he is open to reconciling with Michigan basketball and said, "Howard is my friend... and therefore, I put pride aside", but wants his return to the Crisler Arena to be private.
Webber averaged 20.7 points, 9.8 rebounds, and 4.2 assists during his NBA career.
The Golden State Warriors did not make the playoffs during the first 12 years after they traded Webber.
In 1997, he led Washington to their first playoff appearance since 1989.
They would not reach the playoffs again until 2005, seven years after trading Webber.
Prior to Webber's arrival in 1998, the Kings made the playoffs only twice (1985 and 1996) since they moved to Sacramento from Kansas City in 1985.
Webber was ranked #64 in "SLAM Magazine"'s Top 75 NBA Players of all time in 2003.
He was ranked #11 in an ESPN.com experts poll of the top power forwards of all time in 2005 and ranked #72 on a list of the Top 96 NBA Players of all time in Bill Simmons' bestseller "" published in 2009.
The Sacramento Kings retired Webber's number 4 jersey on February 6, 2009 when the Kings hosted the Utah Jazz.
In 2014, he made another special appearance in the Kings' arena along with former teammate Mike Bibby and both were honored that day.
Since retiring from the NBA, Webber has become an analyst on NBA TV's "NBA Gametime Live".
He does the Tuesday Fan Night alongside Ernie Johnson and Kevin McHale.
He also serves as an occasional guest analyst (primary) on TNT's "Inside the NBA" from 2008–present.
During Charles Barkley's leave of absence, Webber substituted for him along with other guests such as Gary Payton and Mike Fratello.
Webber has also expressed interests in eventually becoming a GM and owner.
Since 2017 is also a regular panelist during NBA on TNT's Monday coverage called "Players Only", which features only former NBA players as studio analysts, play by play announcers, and color analysts for games.
In August 2010, Webber played in the NBA Asia Challenge 2010 at Araneta Coliseum in Manila, an exhibition game which pitted NBA legends and NBA Development League players against Philippine Basketball Association stars and legends.
Webber has also stated he is working on a book.
Outside of basketball, Webber has been active in his investment company representing basketball and football players, real estate, and film projects.
In 2011, it was reported that, that company had lined up investors to build the Kings a new arena.
Webber was the owner of Center Court With C-Webb, a restaurant in Sacramento, California.
The restaurant closed on November 17, 2009.
Earlier that year, Webber married his longtime girlfriend Erika Dates during a private ceremony at his Atlanta home.
In attendance were 200 guests including family and close friends.
In 2015, Chris Webber was the executive producer for the independent romantic-drama film Somewhere in the Middle by Lanre Olabisi.
Webber has also tried his hand at music production, producing Nas' tracks "Surviving the Times" from his "Greatest Hits" album and "Blunt Ashes" from "Hip Hop Is Dead".
In late 2016, Webber began hosting "Fearless or Insane" on Podcast One.
In 2018, Webber, with old age makeup, played the role of Preacher in the film "Uncle Drew", which starred Kyrie Irving.
Webber has a personal collection of African-American artifacts which he began collecting in 1994.
He began collecting them upon entering the NBA, starting with the purchase of two slave records.
Webber believes that these artifacts are a reflection of his beliefs and aspirations.
He initially collected them as encouragements to face life obstacles.
However, he had no intentions on exhibiting them until the growth of his collection prompted additional storage.
His collection includes an original 1901 publication of an autobiography by Booker T. Washington, and various documents, letters, and postcards signed by Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X.
When not on public exhibit, the artifacts are stored at the Sacramento Public Library's Archival Vault.
In previous years, the Chris Webber Collection has been featured in Crocker Art Museum and Wayne State University.
On June 28, 2007, Webber unveiled his collection of African-American artifacts during the Celebrating Heritage Exhibition at Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History in Detroit.
During a news conference, Webber said he believed that children can learn from these artifacts, "Hopefully, when children see them they will see there is no excuse for us not to be successful.
There's no excuse not to find something that you love to do.
There's no excuse to not work hard at it."
Webber is active in various charities and created The Timeout Foundation in 1993.
The foundation's mission is to provide positive educational and recreational opportunities to youth.
In 1999, Webber created C-Webb's Crew where a group of tickets at every Kings regular home season game would be donated to at-risk youth and their families.
To date, over 3,000 youths and their families have attended a game through C-Webb's Crew.
Community awards Webber has won include the inaugural Sacramento Kings/Oscar Robertson Triple Double Award, which is annually awarded to a Kings player who exemplifies: team leadership, all-around game, and sportsmanship; the NBA Community Assist Award for his contributions in February 2003, and the Wish Maker of the Year in 2003 awarded by the Sacramento Chapter of the Make a Wish Foundation.
More recently, Webber held a celebrity weekend, Bada Bling!, at the Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas.
The event was held from July 28–30, 2006 and included a live auction and celebrity poker tournament.
Many renowned NBA players participated including then-current and former teammates: Mike Bibby, Brad Miller, Andre Iguodala, Bobby Jackson, Kyle Korver, and his then-current coach, Maurice Cheeks.
Other notable participants included Charles Barkley, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Gary Payton, Kenny Smith, Moses Malone, and Stephon Marbury.
Numerous entertainers attended as well such as Nas and Common.
All of the proceeds were donated to The Timeout Foundation.
Webber hosted his second annual Bada Bling charity weekend from July 20–22, 2007 at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas.
Webber also has produced hip hop records, including two songs for rapper Nas: "Blunt Ashes" and "Surviving the Times" and appeared on the skit Webber from Naughty by Nature's Grammy Award-winning album Poverty's Paradise.
Megalodon
Megalodon ("Carcharocles megalodon"), meaning "big tooth", is an extinct species of shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago (mya), during the Early Miocene to the Pliocene.
It was formerly thought to be a member of the family Lamnidae, and a close relative of the great white shark ("Carcharodon carcharias").
However, presently there is near unanimous consensus that it belongs to the extinct family Otodontidae, which diverged from the ancestry of the great white shark during the Early Cretaceous.
Its genus placement is still debated, authors placing it in either "Carcharocles", "Megaselachus", "Otodus", or "Procarcharodon".
This is because transitional fossils have been found showing that Megalodon is the final chronospecies of a lineage of giant sharks originally of the genus "Otodus" which evolved during the Paleocene.
While regarded as one of the largest and most powerful predators to have ever lived, megalodon is known from fragmentary remains and its appearance and maximum size are uncertain.
Scientists differ on whether it would have more closely resembled a stockier version of the great white shark, the basking shark ("Cetorhinus maximus") or the sand tiger shark ("Carcharias taurus").
Most estimates of megalodon's size extrapolate from teeth; with maximum length estimates up to and average length estimates of .
Estimates suggest their large jaws could exert a bite force of up to .
Their teeth were thick and robust, built for grabbing prey and breaking bone.
Megalodon probably had a major impact on the structure of marine communities.
The fossil record indicates that it had a cosmopolitan distribution.
It probably targeted large prey, such as whales, seals, and sea turtles.
Juveniles inhabited warm coastal waters and fed on fish and small whales.
Unlike the great white, which attacks prey from the soft underside, megalodon probably used its strong jaws to break through the chest cavity and puncture the heart and lungs of its prey.
The animal faced competition from whale-eating cetaceans, such as "Livyatan" and other macroraptorial sperm whales, and possibly smaller ancestral killer whales.
As the shark preferred warmer waters, it is thought that oceanic cooling associated with the onset of the ice ages, coupled with the lowering of sea levels and resulting loss of suitable nursery areas, may have also contributed to its decline.
A reduction in the diversity of baleen whales and a shift in their distribution toward polar regions may have reduced megalodon's primary food source.
More recently, evidence has come forward that competition from the modern great white shark may have also contributed to the extinction of megalodon, coupled with range fragmentation resulting in a gradual, asynchronous extinction as a result of cooling oceans around 3.6-4 million years ago, far earlier than previously assumed.
The extinction of the shark appeared to affect other animals; for example, the size of baleen whales increased significantly after the shark had disappeared.
According to Renaissance accounts, gigantic triangular fossil teeth often found embedded in rocky formations were once believed to be the petrified tongues, or glossopetrae, of dragons and snakes.
This interpretation was corrected in 1667 by Danish naturalist Nicolas Steno, who recognized them as shark teeth, and famously produced a depiction of a shark's head bearing such teeth.
He described his findings in the book "The Head of a Shark Dissected", which also contained an illustration of a megalodon tooth.
Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz gave this shark its initial scientific name, "Carcharodon megalodon", in his 1843 work "Recherches sur les poissons fossiles", based on tooth remains.
English paleontologist Edward Charlesworth in his 1837 paper used the name "Carcharias megalodon", while citing Agassiz as the author, indicating that Agassiz described the species prior to 1843.
English paleontologist Charles Davies Sherborn in 1928 listed an 1835 series of articles by Agassiz as the first scientific description of the shark.
The specific name "megalodon" translates to "big tooth", from and ὀδούς ("odoús"), "tooth".
The teeth of megalodon are morphologically similar to those of the great white shark ("Carcharodon carcharias"), and on the basis of this observation, Agassiz assigned megalodon to the genus "Carcharodon".
Though “megalodon” is an informal name for the shark, it is also often informally dubbed the "giant white shark", the "megatooth shark", the "big tooth shark", or "Meg".
There was one apparent description of the shark in 1881 classifying it as "Selache manzonii".
While the earliest megalodon remains have been reported from the Late Oligocene, around 28 million years ago (mya), there is disagreement as to when it appeared, with dates ranging to as young as 16 mya.
It has been thought that megalodon became extinct around the end of the Pliocene, about 2.6 mya; claims of Pleistocene megalodon teeth, younger than 2.6 million years old, are considered unreliable.
A more recent assessment moves the extinction date back to earlier in the Pliocene, 3.6 mya.
Megalodon is now considered to be a member of the family Otodontidae, genus "Carcharocles", as opposed to its previous classification into Lamnidae, genus "Carcharodon".
Megalodon's classification into "Carcharodon" was due to dental similarity with the great white shark, but most authors currently believe that this is due to convergent evolution.
In this model, the great white shark is more closely related to the extinct broad-toothed mako ("Isurus hastalis") than to megalodon, as evidenced by more similar dentition in those two sharks; megalodon teeth have much finer serrations than great white shark teeth.
The great white shark is more closely related to the mako shark ("Isurus" spp.
), with a common ancestor around 4 mya.
Proponents of the former model, wherein megalodon and the great white shark are more closely related, argue that the differences between their dentition are minute and obscure.
The genus "Carcharocles" currently contains four species: "C. auriculatus", "C. angustidens", "C. chubutensis", and "C. megalodon".
The evolution of this lineage is characterized by the increase of serrations, the widening of the crown, the development of a more triangular shape, and the disappearance of the lateral cusps.
The evolution in tooth morphology reflects a shift in predation tactics from a tearing-grasping bite to a cutting bite, likely reflecting a shift in prey choice from fish to cetaceans.
Lateral cusplets were finally lost in a gradual process that took roughly 12 million years during the transition between "C. chubutensis" and "C. megalodon".
The genus was proposed by D. S. Jordan and H. Hannibal in 1923 to contain "C. auriculatus".