Chris Webber fired back at the statements made by his former Sixers coach Jim O'Brien on January 21, where O'Brien insinuated that Webber did not practice hard and did not want to be in Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Inquirer is reporting.

"I've been in the league longer than Jim O'Brien," he said. "I think he's trying to justify why he got fired and why players didn't like him. It's funny, because I was the babysitter for him that year to make people like him."