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Former University of Michigan
basketball star Chris Webber said he received an apology from
Wolverines athletic director Warde Manuel for how the school handled
the fallout from his guilty plea in a 2003 court case involving an
athletic department booster.
Webber told ESPN’s Myron Medcalf in an
interview released Wednesday that Manuel, who was hired by UM in
2016, said the school should have done more to “protect” him
after he pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal contempt after paying back former booster Ed Martin over $38,000.
“I was told by the athletic
director at the University of Michigan that he was sorry,”
Webber said. “And he wasn’t even there at the time [I was
playing]. He told me that he did his research and that he needs to
apologize. His exact words [were] he needs ‘to apologize to the
18-year-old Chris Webber because we didn’t protect him.'”
Michigan disassociated from Webber for
10 years following the case and removed his stats from its record
books.
This article will be updated to provide more information on this story as it becomes available.
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