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{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1971)}}
{{For|the checkers player|Jeff Webster (checkers player)}}
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{{Infobox basketball biography
| name            = Jeff Webster
| image           = 
| width           = 
| caption         = 
| number          = 42
| position        = [[Forward (basketball)|Forward]]
| height_ft       = 6
| height_in       = 8
| weight_lb       = 232
| birth_date      = {{birth date and age|1971|02|19}}
| birth_place     = [[Pine Bluff, Arkansas]], U.S.
| death_date      = 
| death_place     = 
| high_school     = Carl Albert<br>([[Midwest City, Oklahoma]])
| college         = [[Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball|Oklahoma]] (1989–1994)
| draft_year      = 1994
| draft_round     = 2
| draft_pick      = 40
| draft_team      = [[Miami Heat]]
| career_start    = 
| career_end      = 
| years1          = 1994–1995
| team1           = [[Rapid City Thrillers]]
| years2          = 1995
| team2           = [[Tri-City Chinook]]
| years3          = 1995
| team3           = [[Sioux Falls Skyforce]]
| years4          = {{nbay|1995|start}}
| team4           = [[Washington Bullets]]
| highlights =
* First-team All-[[Big Eight Conference|Big Eight]] (1994)
* Second-team [[Parade All-America Boys Basketball Team|''Parade'' All-American]] (1989)
| bbr             = webstje01
| letter          = w
| medal_templates = 
{{MedalSport | Men's [[Basketball]]}}
{{MedalCountry|{{flagu|United States}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Summer Universiade]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1993 Summer Universiade|1993 Buffalo]] | [[United States national basketball team|National team]]}}
}}

'''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.<ref>{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20060430231109/http://www.databasebasketball.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=WEBSTJE01 Jeff Webster Past Stats, Playoff Stats, Statistics, History, and Awards<!-- Bot generated title -->]}}</ref>

Webster was selected 40th overall by the [[Miami Heat]] in the [[1994 NBA draft]], but he and fellow Heat draftee [[Ed Stokes]] were traded to the [[Washington Bullets]] in exchange for [[Rex Chapman]] and the draft rights to [[Terrence Rencher]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/sports/1998/01/05/chapman-recalls-years-in-washington/34bf7393-9e68-4c32-8f91-669d1521b94f/|title=Chapman Recalls Years In Washington|first=Ric|last=Bucher|newspaper=Washington Post|date=January 5, 1998|accessdate=January 18, 2022}}</ref> 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]] for the [[Rapid City Thrillers]], Tri-City Chinook and the [[Sioux Falls Skyforce]].  His career averages were 3.9 points and 1.7 rebounds per game.<ref>1996–97 Official CBA Guide and Register, page 318</ref>

Webster's son Justin currently plays for the [[UNLV Runnin Rebs basketball]] team.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tsai |first1=Stephen |title=University of Hawaii basketball team gets commitment from Dallas-area guard |url=https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/06/14/sports/sports-breaking/university-of-hawaii-basketball-team-gets-commitment-from-dallas-area-guard/ |website=Honolulu Star-Advertiser |date=14 June 2019 |accessdate=31 August 2020}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
*{{basketballstats|bbr=w/webstje01}}

{{1994 NBA draft}}

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[[Category:1971 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Basketball players from Arkansas]]
[[Category:McDonald's High School All-Americans]]
[[Category:Miami Heat draft picks]]
[[Category:Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball players]]
[[Category:Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)]]
[[Category:Rapid City Thrillers players]]
[[Category:San-en NeoPhoenix players]]
[[Category:Sioux Falls Skyforce (CBA) players]]
[[Category:Small forwards]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Pine Bluff, Arkansas]]
[[Category:Tri-City Chinook players]]
[[Category:Washington Bullets players]]
[[Category:American men's basketball players]]
[[Category:Summer World University Games medalists in basketball]]
[[Category:FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States]]
[[Category:21st-century African-American sportsmen]]
[[Category:20th-century African-American sportsmen]]
[[Category:American expatriate basketball people in Taiwan]]


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