He has also been a regular in the New Zealand NBL, winning championships with the
Wellington Saints in 2011, 2014 and 2017, and with the
Canterbury Rams in 2023. He has had stints in Serbia, Greece, Israel, China, Italy and Egypt, winning the 2023
BAL championship with
Al Ahly.
In June 2008, Webster joined the
New Zealand Breakers of the
Australian NBL for the first time, signing as a development player.[4] He spent two seasons as a development player[5] before joining the full-time roster ahead of the
2010–11 season.[6] He won his first championship with the Breakers that season before missing the
2011–12 season due to a drug violation.[7] The Breakers brought him back on a three-year deal ahead of the
2012–13 season[8][9] and won his second NBL championship that season.[10] He averaged a then career-high 8.5 points per game during the
2013–14 season.[11]
The
2014–15 season saw Webster develop into one of the league's premier scorers as he moved to a starting role and averaged a team-best 15.3 points per game, including scoring a career-high 24 points in the first semi-final against the
Adelaide 36ers.[12] He helped the Breakers win their fourth title in five years.[13][14]
After re-signing with the Breakers on a three-year deal,[12] Webster's 2015 off-season saw him attend a pre-draft tryout with the
Indiana Pacers[15] and later spent
NBA preseason with the
New Orleans Pelicans.[16][17][18][19][20] With the Breakers in
2015–16,[21] Webster scored a career-high 39 points in November[22][23] and helped the team return to the NBL Grand Final series, where they lost to the
Perth Wildcats.[24] He earned
All-NBL Second Team honours after he finished second in scoring with 21.09 points per game during the regular season.[25]
On 24 May 2018, Webster returned to the Breakers on another three-year deal.[33] He started the
2018–19 NBL season strong,[34] but had a form slump in December[35] that saw him present as a shadow of the figure who was once a premier scorer in the league.[36] He returned to form in the
2019–20 NBL season, averaging 19.5 points in 11 games, before being bought out of his contract in December in order to sign in China.[37]
Webster re-joined the Breakers for the
2020–21 NBL season, but he missed the first two weeks of the season after slicing a nerve in his hand with a knife in his kitchen.[38][39][40] He was later sidelined for four weeks with a knee injury.[41]
On 20 August 2021, Webster parted ways with the Breakers.[42]
Perth Wildcats
On 30 March 2017, Webster signed a two-year deal with the
Perth Wildcats.[43][44] However, he soon requested a release from his contract, which was granted by the Wildcats on 13 July 2017.[45]
On 15 June 2022, Webster reunited with the Wildcats on a two-year deal.[46] On 12 December 2022, in his 250th NBL game, he hit the game-winning 3-pointer to lift the Wildcats to a 90–89 win over
Melbourne United.[47]
On 3 May 2023, Webster re-signed with the Wildcats on a new two-year deal.[48] After playing 27 minutes per game in 2022–23, he fell out of favour in 2023–24 to average 13 minutes per game. The Wildcats did not pick up their team option on his contract for the 2024–25 season.[49][50]
Following both the 2014–15 and 2015–16 NBL seasons, Webster played in Europe. He played in Serbia in 2015 with
Mega Leks[62] and in Greece in 2016 with
Koroivos.[63]
In December 2019, Webster returned to China to play for the
Zhejiang Lions in the
CBA.[37] He played in seven games before leaving China on 3 February 2020 due to the
COVID-19 pandemic.[68] He moved to Italy later that month to play for
Virtus Roma of the
Lega Basket Serie A,[69] but that
season was also cut short due to the pandemic. He appeared in just one game for Roma.[70]
Webster played the 2021–22 season in Egypt for
Al Ittihad.[71]
Webster is the son of Tony and Cherry Webster. Tony, who is from
New York,[77] was a standout basketball player in his own right, earning first-team All-WAC honours at Hawaii in 1983 and ranking fourth on Hawaii's career steals list before playing professionally in New Zealand. Webster's younger brother,
Tai, played four years of
college basketball for the
University of Nebraska and has played professionally in New Zealand and Europe.[78]
^"Sports". The Jackson Sun. 19 March 2008. p. 37. Retrieved 2 January 2021. Lambuth's Corey Webster, left, was named the TranSouth Freshman of the Year this season while averaging 11.5 points.