Jalen Rose: Webber's return could be 'catalyst' for Fab Five reunion

(Photo: Daniel Mears, Detroit News)Detroit — It’s a Michigan reunion that’s been almost 20 years in the making.

Now, it appears to be as close as it’s been since the Fab Five made their mark with the Wolverines in the 1990s.

It's the back-and-forth saga between the university and the famed Fab Five — Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard, Jimmy King and Ray Jackson — which began after the scandal linking U-M booster Ed Martin to improper payments to several players in the program.

After a 10-year hiatus that ended in 2013, Webber has maintained his distance from UM, which had to remove the Final Four banners from appearances in the Final Four in 1992 and ’93.

Webber is expected to be an…