Scottie Pippen Reportedly 'Beyond Livid' At MJ About 'The Last Dance' Portrayal

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Rekkapryde said:
Funny thing about Scottie's deal is that Mike signed an 8 year deal for around 3 million per a couple of years prior :yeshrug:

he wasn't bytching about his NBA paycheck :troll:
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Mike was the 32nd highest paid player in the league the year they went 72-10.

He was getting paid less than Sam Perkins, Benoit Benjamin, Brian Shaw, Sean Elliot, and AC Green.:unimpressed:
 
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Articles from when Pippen sat out:

PRO BASKETBALL; Disgusted Pippen Sits Down For Game-Winning Play

Phil Jackson, the Bulls' coach, designed a play in which Pippen took the ball out of bands at midcourt and Toni Kukoc would take the last shot at the top of the circle.

According to Andrea Kramer, an ESPN reporter, who was beside the Bulls' bench at this time with a cameraman, quoted Pippen as issuing and expletive and then saying, "I'm tired of this." And Pippen then sat down.

Some of the other players said, "Pip, come on, get up, what are you doing?"

He refused to come back in the game. Since the Bulls only were sending four men on the court, Jackson had to call a second timeout.
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It was the fourth time this season that Kukoc has made a long shot to win a game at the buzzer.

After the game, Jackson told reporters: "As far as the last play goes, Scottie Pippen was not involved in the play. He asked out of the play. That is all I'm going to say about it."

In the locker room, Pippen said: "Phil and I kind of exchanged some words. That was pretty much it. It wasn't Phil taking me out of the game, we pretty much exchanged words and I took a seat. I think it was frustration. We really blew this game as much as we possibly could. We were able to pull off the win. Toni made another outstanding shot and it was a well-called play by Phil."

As he got up to leave, Pippen added: "I wasn't doing anything, anyway. That's pretty much it."
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Pippen has expressed dissatisfaction with Kukoc in some ways with the Bulls, and was known as giving him a difficult time in practice sessions. But some viewed that as simply the Bulls way, as learned from Jordan who gave many a difficult time in practice, including a younger Pippen, which was said to help steel him to the N.B.A. wars.

In recent days, Pippen has also said that he believes he deserves to be the highest-paid Bull. He is earning $3 million a year, with two years remaining on his contract. But Kukoc, who is earning an estimated $2 million-plus, has a clause in his contract that may allow him to go above $3 million.

Pippen said he didn't mind if Horace Grant, the Bulls' forward, was paid more than he did. Grant is an unrestricted free agent after this season -- but he didn't want Kukoc to be.
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Earlier in the season, Pippen also gave Bulls fans a nasty hand signal when they booed him. Later, he said he felt he was being booed because he is black. He apologized for his remarks the following day, saying he knew that some white players with the Bulls have been booed, too.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...one-out/026026c7-040b-4f65-9bc8-20438382d89e/

Michael Wilson:picard:

Still, there's this phrase you hear when Pippen's name is mentioned. It's uttered most often by players. You can hear it in any gym in the NBA: "Scottie Pippen is a punk."

In locker room parlance, a "punk" is somebody who can't deliver in the clutch, somebody who either can't hit the big shot or doesn't want to take it. A "punk" in the NBA glossary is a quitter, somebody looking for an excuse or a way out.

You know what they're calling Pippen after Game 3 here in the Stadium, don't you?

It's hard to disagree. Trying to get a handle on Pippen is like riding a teeter-totter. One day you swear he can hold his own with the game's greats. Another day he can't play Game 7 against Detroit because of a headache.
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Pick a sport, any sport, and try to figure out the last time a star player, a Hall of Fame candidate, simply removed himself from the field of play on the most crucial play of the season. Can you imagine Art Monk, on that fourth-down play against Miami in the Super Bowl, saying to Joe Gibbs, "If you hand it off to Riggo, I'm outta here."? Not only did Pippen basically tell his teammates to go to hell, but it was about the biggest act of insubordination imaginable.

The fact that Kukoc nailed the shot at the buzzer makes Pippen look like an even bigger fool.

It's unfortunate that a man at the top of his profession would be so selfish, so evil toward one of his teammates. It is the story not only of Pippen's own fragile nature, but an ongoing unnecessary feud.
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Pippen made Kukoc's life miserable in a game at the Olympics by shadowing him as if his life depended on it. He then had the nerve to trash Kukoc. Jordan, after a second game against Croatia, apologized and said he'd welcome Kukoc as a teammate. Anybody who could pass and shoot it that well, Jordan said, deserved a shot. There would be no more barbs from him.

But Pippen continued trashing Kukoc, saying he didn't deserve to be an NBA player. Every shot that Kukoc took was a shot Pippen should have had. Every dollar that went to the unproven Kukoc was money that should have been in Pippen's bank. In a recent magazine interview Pippen came right out and said if Kukoc, a restricted free agent, makes a penny more next season, he will demand a trade.
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The War Report said:
But he was eating real good off them endorsement deals.
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Okay, but that has nothing to do with the NBA contract he signed where he was underpaid as well for many years. The last year of Mike's deal had him 32nd in the league (72-10 season). Before that 96-97 season he was never the highest paid.

It wasn't football where those contracts are as good as toiler paper outside of your signing bonus. Should have gave himself an out. But he took the long term bread.
 
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Marc Spector said:
heres the problem with the doc IMO

Nearly all of MJ's teammates in "The Last Dance" catch a stray or rather, some implicit suggestion that it was due to their character flaws/weakness that the Bulls went through some sort of rough patch.....

Meanwhile Jordan is shown to be nigh flawless. The worst coverage he gets is when they tell the story of him hitting Kerr. And even then that same episode ends with the implication that Jordan was only asking the same of what he was giving that his leadership style was the best thing for that era of the Bulls.

Even the pre Phil/Scottie years are quickly summarized as "he was a fukkING PHENOM who was needed the right coach/cast to win".

So given that this is a supposed to be most in depth look at the Bulls team as an entire organization, i can imagine that the extremely pro Jordan Slant would be a little annoying.
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You know what was bad- although it was funny asf- was when Gary Payton told his account of guarding Jordan in the finals and then they switch to Jordan on the IPad laughing his ass off as Gary still speaks then ultimately saying they lost on purpose so they could win the 'ship on Father's Day:patrice::francis:It was hilarious and I did laugh but at the same time you can't do that if you're going to really call this a documentary. Yeah its pro Jordan 100% but they should've at least curbed "his final say at the end of each episode" to a degree imo. Good entertainment tho but I'm wondering if GP wishes he didn't do it as well. They had him looking silly even though he was telling the truth imo
 
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pete clemenza said:
You know what was bad- although it was funny asf- was when Gary Payton told his account of guarding Jordan in the finals and then they switch to Jordan on the IPad laughing his ass off as Gary still speaks then ultimately saying they lost on purpose so they could win the 'ship on Father's Day:patrice::francis:It was hilarious and I did laugh but at the same time you can't do that if you're going to really call this a documentary. Yeah its pro Jordan 100% but they should've at least curbed "his final say at the end of each episode" to a degree imo. Good entertainment tho but I'm wondering if GP wishes he didn't do it as well. They had him looking silly even though he was telling the truth imo
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Meanwhile, back in the world where men are men, Payton said:

“That’s what I expect out of Mike, because I would have said the same thing. I’m not going to admit to nothing, I’m not going to admit to someone that D’d me up. I will always tell you at any time in my career, nobody gave me problems.... So you know that is just the way the game goes.”

Gary Payton Reacts To Michael Jordan Laughing At Him On The Last Dance

I swear some of yall are soccer moms:pachaha:Not a masculine bone in your body.

"Michael was mean. He shouldnt have done that:sadbron:"

Payton wouldve done the same thing:dead:
 
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pete clemenza said:
You know what was bad- although it was funny asf- was when Gary Payton told his account of guarding Jordan in the finals and then they switch to Jordan on the IPad laughing his ass off as Gary still speaks then ultimately saying they lost on purpose so they could win the 'ship on Father's Day:patrice::francis:
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How does Mike saying he had other things on his mind mean that he lost games on purpose:gucci:
 
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