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San Diego State coach Steve Fisher has no problem with portrayal of Fab Five in documentary

Riding back from the Mountain West Conference tournament last week, San Diego State's players learned coach Steve Fisher had a copy of the new documentary about Michigan's famous Fab Five recruiting class.Most of them didn't know much about the team Fisher coached to consecutive national title games, so they asked him to pop it in on the bus trip home."They enjoyed it," Fisher said Wednesday. "I do think that they heard a lot about it, but most of them weren't born when the Fab Five were playing. But they still had fun with it. They ribbed both myself and (assistant coach) Brian Dutcher about how we looked then and how we look now, and all that stuff. So it was fun."The 1991 freshman class of Chris Webber, Jalen Rose, Juwan Howard , Ray Jackson and Jimmy King was one of the most heralded in college basketball history and had a good run in Ann Arbor.The fivesome's legacy, though, was overshadowed by scandal after prosecutors said now-deceased booster Ed Martin gave Webber, Maurice Taylo...

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