<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">PHILADELPHIA ? Chris Webber understands why 76ers fans don't have high hopes for the 2006-07 season. ?I'm a Detroit Lions fan,? said Webber, a Motor City native, of the perennial NFL doormats. ?If anybody has the right to that, it's our fans. It's just up to us to go out there and prove who we are. Once we go out and play the way we're capable of playing, that'll answer their questions. ?As a fan, it's messed up to be in a barber shop and your team loses. I haven't been able to go to the barber shop during football season in a long time. Hopefully, we'll give people the pride to be able to put on that Sixers hat and to walk down with a little bob in their step because we're playing good.? Webber heads into his 14th NBA season ? his second full year as a Sixer ? well aware that his time in Philadelphia has been anything but smooth sailing. Webber seethed when Jim O'Brien benched him for nearly 12 minutes late in a March 5, 2005 , win at Atlanta . He struggled ? and may continue to do so ? to accept his role as Allen Iverson's wing man after 61/2 years as the star in Sacramento . And he was bothered by missing out on the playoffs last spring for the first time in eight years. Webber's numbers (20.2 points, 9.9 rebounds) were still good last season, when he and Iverson (33.0) were the league's top scoring duo with a 53.2 average, but the Sixers only went 38-44 and Webber was clearly a defensive liability. ?It's built a lot of character and I'm not a quitter,? said Webber at Friday's media day. ?It's more than outside of basketball. I know there has to be a different purpose here because I didn't try to make it happen. I don't believe in coincidences, so I know this is where I'm supposed to be right now. ?For me, it's just believing that we're going to do better. It's been tough, definitely, but I'm not used to anything really coming easy, so I feel like the tougher it is right now the better the story will be if we were to win it. It would be like a movie. That's what I'm looking for, some type of movie ending.?</div> Source
