Marcus Morris tries to cheer up Reggie Jackson following his timeout blunder by saying that it wasn’t as bad as Chris Webber’s.
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With stars resting on both team, role players piled on heavy minutes for their respective teams in this game. The Clippers managed to edge out the Heat in this, ‘Battle of the B-teams’ but not without a major hiccup along the way.
With less than 30 seconds to go in the ballgame and the Clippers up by 6, Morris got tied up on the right corner. Reggie Jackson seemed to have panicked and called a timeout to talk it over with Ty Lue and his squad.
The problem was that the Clippers didn’t have a timeout remaining. This means that the Clips would have to give up possession of the ball and grant the Heat two free throws.
Reggie Jackson was clearly very distraught by this blunder, so Marcus Morris took it upon himself to help cheer the point guard up.
Marcus Morris compared Reggie Jackson’s mistake to Chris Webber’s from 1993.
Marcus Morris didn’t hesitate in trying to raise Jackson’s spirits. He immediately drew comparison between this situation and Chris Webber’s infamous timeout call in the Michigan vs. UNC Final Four game from 1993. Morris said, “At least it wasn’t as bad as Chris Webber’s play.”
Understandably so. The Chris Webber mishap was in a much more crucial game and Michigan had a shot to take the game as they were trailing by just 2 points. However, Webber decided to smother the ball in the right corner and call for a timeout when Michigan didn’t have any remaining.
This resulted in an obvious technical foul and in turn, lost them the game.
Jackson’s wasn’t nearly as bad as this was merely a regular season and the Clippers had a sizeable lead of 6 points. Reggie did come through in the clutch as well as he knocked down a free throw that would ice the game for LA.
![Jason Williams and Chris Webber have always been known to indulge in strange antics with each other, which was raised by Comedian Andrew Schulz, on his show, Flagrant. Appearing on the show, Jason Williams was asked whether he was involved "in a drive-by paintball shooting of Chris Webber's house in Sacramento". The White Chocolate burst into laughter and "plead the fifth". Williams confessed that maybe "his house caught some bullets along the way". However, to everyone's surprise, he told the comedian that "he [Chris Webber] was probably with me in some them drivebys." Adding to this, Williams also shared a hilarious story of a similar driveby with Webber, where the latter's shoe fell off but he had to somehow get it back. "We were doing that one time..we couldn't get in the gate or something so we decided we're going to go down and do our thing at the security guard at night, right, so we got two little scooters we are riding on these scooters and we dropped them in the dark and we are walking through the woods and whatever, we go the paintballs, we got the rocks, boom boom and we take off and left the scooters. But C Web's shoe falls off. And we got back and I was like 'Bro, where is your shoe?'" The story left everyone in the panel in splits as Williams made the 2021 Hall of Fame Inductee go all the way back to fetch his shoe because living in an all-white community, Webber was probably the only one with that size of shoe. However, on a serious note, the 2006 NBA champion confessed that it was one of the most fun times he had with his former teammate. He added that "it was a blessing in disguise" because they had to play a lot of games in different locations. It is obviously heartwarming to see such a chemistry between the legendary duo of Sacramento Kings. Jason Williams once had to travel in the undercarriage of the team bus Rookie hazing has been a part of teams in the NBA, where the veterans on the team try to build chemistry with young players in their own ways like alotting chores. Chris Webber once narrated one such incident where the rookie Jason Williams hid in the undercarriage of the team bus to avoid it. Upon reaching the hotel, the team noticed that Williams was missing. After searching for some time, the team looked under the bus and there was the 1998 draftee. When Webber asked him the reason, White Chocolate responded, "I don't wanna ride with y'all bi*ches up here." Even though it is a fun tradition among teammates to get to know each other, it did take a toll on the one-time All-Star. However, it was not long after this, the two developed good team ability to make some amazing plays together.](https://cdn-wp.thesportsrush.com/2023/11/7f3ad985-nba-2023-11-08t231816.707.jpg?format=auto&w=384&q=75)
