Chris Webber told ESPN.com on Monday night that he will arrive in Oakland on Tuesday to officially re-join the Golden State Warriors and play again for Don Nelson.
“I’ll be there tomorrow,” Webber said via e-mail. “It’s a done deal.”

Webber has signed for a pro-rated share of the league’s $1.2 million veteran minimum, which computes to just under $570,000 if he stays with Golden State to the end of the regular season. But he won’t hook up with his new teammates before Thursday at the earliest.

But this brief proclamation to confirm that he’s returning to the team and city where he began his NBA career in 1993 — and where he lasted only one season because of a fast-crumbling relationship with Nelson — will be sufficiently stunning to longtime Warriors fans who believe that the breakdown of the initial Webber-Nelson partnership plunged Golden State into more than a decade of despair.

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