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By AUSTIN BISHOP Spom Editor

ha,n't decided exactly what he \\ants to do. Webb, who is the son of Stan and Debbie Webb. gre\\ up playing baseball 111 the Philadel– phta parks '>Y~tem. But he had to find his basketbaJI elsewhere. "T really started with pid.up baJI in the )Car." Webb said. "I always Jo\·ed to play. It \\a.., 1-.ind of more of not getting pushed into. but just letting me learn to love it." Webb, who made the all-:-tar baseball team~ m. a }OUth. said he really thought that ba-;eball would be his game. "Ba~ebaJl was alway~; natural to me. but then basketball just popped up." he Mid. He ~aid it wasn't until the middle of hili senior year that he thought he might could play basket– hall on the next level. "All the 'iudden it just hit me - I've got a chance.'' he said. The 6-foot shooting guard said he ha~ improved his game since he got to. ·•J had to get better:· he said. "I needed to get stronger and improve other area~ of the game. But. I was determined to do it. so I just o;tuck "ith it."

DECATt:R- Some gu)" ju't lo\'e to \\hinc \\hen things don't go their \\ay. Others refuse to quit no matter what the odd-.. Consider Chris Webb one of the latter. When Webb. nO\\ a \Lal1cr for the Ea<>t Central Communi!) College basl..etball team \\as a sophomore at l\e~hoba Central I ligh School he wa.-, cut from the team by then fit~t-year year head coach Sal LaBue "He was such an inspiration," LaBuc said. "He just wouJdn't go away. "I cut him from the temn. It just didn't seem to me that he wa~ going to he all that good," LaBuc said. But Webb rcfuseo to go away. "He came up to me and asked if he could prac– tice with the team anyway.'' LaBue said. "1 wa<; shocked. I told him l guess he could practice but he was going to have to do everything that evel)– body else had to do. "He satd, 'fine:··

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