Chris Welp

Chris Welp was a German professional basketball player who stood 213 cm tall and played as a center. Born in January 1964, he first became prominent in college basketball, where he became the leading scorer in the history of the Washington Huskies with 2,073 points and won the Pac-10 Player of the Year award in 1986. The Philadelphia 76ers chose him sixteenth overall in the 1987 NBA draft, and he spent three seasons in the league with Philadelphia, San Antonio and Golden State, his progress hampered by a serious knee injury after a fall on a wet court. He then returned to Europe, winning six German league titles and three German Cups with Bayer Leverkusen, taking the EuroLeague title with Olympiacos in 1996-97, and later playing for Alba Berlin and in Italy. With the German national team he won gold at EuroBasket 1993 and was voted the tournament's most valuable player. He died in March 2015 at the age of 51.