Jeff Webster

{{Short description|American basketball player (born 1971)}}

{{For|the checkers player|Jeff Webster (checkers player)}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2024}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

| name = Jeff Webster

| image =

| width =

| caption =

| number = 42

| position = 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
(Midwest City, Oklahoma)

| college = 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 (1994)
• Second-team Parade All-American (1989)

| bbr = webstje01

| letter = w

| medal_templates =

{{MedalSport | Men's Basketball}}

{{MedalCountry|{{flagu|United States}}}}

{{MedalCompetition|Summer Universiade}}

{{MedalGold| 1993 Buffalo | 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.{{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]}}

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.{{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}} 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.1996–97 Official CBA Guide and Register, page 318

Webster's son Justin currently plays for the UNLV Runnin Rebs basketball team.{{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}}