I knew it was a gold or silver chrome, and I always liked shoes that were down low and not too flashy, and I knew that that would get a lot of attention. SLAM: Have you ever worn anything that you look back on now, like, What was I thinking?ĬW: The DaDas. Other guys would have and I just told them to give me 50 pairs back in the day, and I got them and just wanted to keep them. Some memorabilia and stuff like that, but mostly shoes that I have. It’s a barn with a lot of stuff, a lot of storage. I was just wearing what was hot at the time.ĬW: Yeah. Hakeem Olajuwon wore Etonics-I wore Etonics. I was a Nike and an adidas guy growing up, but Dominique wore Brooks, I wore Brooks. SLAM: What NBA players were wearing had a big influence on you.ĬW: Oh yeah.

They were heavy, bulky, but they’re my favorite shoes ever. High-top Patrick Ewings-my aunt got them for me. SLAM: Do you remember kicks you wore or really wanted when you were a kid?ĬW: Yeah. SLAM: You never worried about the low-tops messing up your ankles?ĬW: Nah, you get taped-the tape job in the NBA is better than the support of a shoe anyway. So mine were low-tops, and yeah, I loved ‘em. Back then they wanted everybody to have high-tops, and I was like, Guys, I gotta wear my shoes with my jeans. As a player you always dream of having your own shoe, and I remember how hard I fought to keep them low-tops. Then I just remember being excited showing people my shoe (the Nike Air Max CWs). SLAM: Do you have any specific sneaker memories that you cherish?ĬW: The first shoe that I wore in the NBA was the shoe that David Robinson and I had together (the Nike Air Unlimited). I was gone two or three years before all that. But I’m a fan of basketball and shoes, and you gotta listen to the fans with shoes, and I think they stopped listening to the fans. But I told them when I left that it was gonna end-not ‘cause of me. We set some pretty big earmarks that year-I had the chrome shoe that did really well for DaDa. SLAM: You had a pretty big role with DaDa during your playing days, right?ĬW: Yeah, when I signed with DaDa I actually ran the company. I don’t know if Nike’s investing, but I’d love to have my shoe re-released.ĬW: Nah, it’s out of my hands. I’m releasing a book next year, so it’d be nice to release a shoe with the book or something like that. Did you have a part in that?Ĭhris Webber: I knew about it. Hopefully there’s something a little more special with a remix next year. SLAM: DaDa rereleased the infamous Supreme CDubbz last year. (The chrome DaDa Supreme CDubbz he wore during the 2002 All-Star Game are, for better or worse, undeniably legendary, so much so that the company felt the need to re-release them in early 2013.)ĭuring a break in an NBA on TNT telecast in New Orleans, Webber-who now works as an analyst for Turner Sports/NBA TV-sat in a hotel suite and spoke candidly about his sneaker history.

But most notably, though, C-Webb made a ton of shoe-related headlines for his time spent as the President of DaDa, the apparel/kicks company he repped from ’02-03. He began with Nike, teaming with David Robinson to wear the Nike Air Unlimiteds before switching to his signature Nike Air Max CWs, then moved on to Fila, AND 1 and Reebok before retiring in 2008. Chris Webber represented a handful of sneaker brands during his 15-year NBA career.

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