Jeffrey Tyrone Webster (born February 19, 1971) is an American former professional basketball player. Webster played collegiately for the University of Oklahoma, where he scored 2,258 points and collected 781 rebounds. Webster was selected 40th overall by the Miami Heat in the

1994 NBA draft The 1994 NBA draft took place on June 29, 1994, at Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis. Two NBA rookies of the year were picked in the first round, as Jason Kidd and Grant Hill were co-winners of the award for the 1994–95 NBA season. Kidd and Hill ...

, but he and fellow Heat draftee Ed Stokes were traded to the Washington Bullets in exchange for

Rex Chapman Rex Everett Chapman (born October 5, 1967) is an American former professional basketball player and social media influencer. Chapman was a high school phenom in Kentucky, winning numerous awards for his play. In two seasons at the University of ...

and the draft rights to

Terrence Rencher Terrence Lamont Rencher (born February 19, 1973) is an American former professional basketball player. He is an assistant coach for the Oklahoma State Cowboys. Playing career Rencher was a prep star at St. Raymond High School for Boys in the B ...

. He played 11 games with the Bullets during the 1995–96 season before his brief NBA career came to an end. Webster also played in the

Continental Basketball Association The Continental Basketball Association (CBA) (originally known as the Eastern Pennsylvania Basketball League, and later as the Eastern Professional Basketball League and the Eastern Basketball Association) was a men's professional basketball m ...

for the

Rapid City Thrillers The Rapid City Thrillers were a semi-professional basketball team in Rapid City, South Dakota, that competed in the Continental Basketball Association beginning in the 1987 season. They were reincarnated in 1998 as an International Basketball Ass ...

, Tri-City Chinook and the Sioux Falls Skyforce. His career averages were 3.9 points and 1.7 rebounds per game. Webster's son Justin currently plays for the

UNLV Runnin Rebs basketball The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a public land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada. The campus is about east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the University of Nevada from 1957 to 1969. It includes the S ...

team.

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