Dunk History: Chris Webber, Charles Barkley and a poster preserved (Ball Don’t Lie)
As the summer wears on, with training camps and preseason play still off in (what feels like) the distant future, we turn our attention to the past. Join us as we while away a few late-summer moments recalling some of the most scintillating slams of yesteryear, the most thunderous throwdowns ever to sear themselves into our memories. This is Dunk History . Today, Ben Rohrbach pays homage to a rookie Chris Webber's stylish behind-the-back bombing of Charles Barkley early in the 1993-94 season. Twelve-year-old me had an entire bedroom wall dedicated to the Fab Five. Every picture that ever appeared on a poster, in Sports Illustrated and SLAM, or anywhere else photographs were found in the early 1990s made its way to that wall. It even featured my own life-size Jalen Rose drawing that was nothing short of awful. That's right. I was the skinny white kid from Cape Cod who wore shorts below his knees and black shoes over black socks to every game I ever played after 1991. I've never admitted this to anyone, but I definitely cried when Chris Webber called that timeout and smashed my alarm clock in hopes I wouldn't have to go to school the next morning. My older brothers still haven't let...
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