The Last Dance made Scottie Pippen look like such a bytch ass nikka

[Fortunate Lee]

^^^ he was “crucified” back then...well as much as you could be via newspaper/news outlets cuz that was the primary source of info back then...but yes in the age of social media and stephen smith being on air practically 24/7 shyt would be way worse now lol

Stephen A , even though he’s the biggest loudmouth, is usually very fair to the players.

It’s the Skips, c00nlocks and the Wrights that have destroyed any good discussion about sports

 

[Miggs]

Pip was the elder statesman on that team and had a bunch of championship experience(I know Detlef Schrempf was on that team, but he didn't have the level of gravitas Pippen had).

That Blazers team had enough to beat the Lakers, they needed someone to calm the kids down when they were up 15 and had the Lakers on the ropes in Game 7 and Pippen couldn't do it.

What's interesting is I was old enough to watch that game live and it was made a big deal that MJ visited Ron Harper before that game 7 and not Pippen... I don't think MJ wanted him to win and get one more ring than him

It wasnt Pippens fault he was a vet but it wasnt HIS team....its not his fault the blazer bigs forgot how to rebound the ball...Pip was well past his prime at that point.

 

[jwinfield]

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.

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."

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.

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.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arch...one-out/026026c7-040b-4f65-9bc8-20438382d89e/

Michael Wilson

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.

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.

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.

 

[ISO]

What's interesting is I was old enough to watch that game live and it was made a big deal that MJ visited Ron Harper before that game 7 and not Pippen... I don't think MJ wanted him to win and get one more ring than him

Of course not. MJ was happy as shyt in the baseball locker room when the Bulls got eliminated in ‘94.

U can see it in The Last Dance, grinning literally.

 

[mindgawn]

The simple fact is disrespect gets disrespect. How the fukk you gone have Pippen inbounding the ball. Illuminating he's a non-factor. Might as well sit on the bench. Inbounding at that moment was hugely disrespectful!

 

[god shamgod]

The simple fact is disrespect gets disrespect. How the fukk you gone have Pippen inbounding the ball. Illuminating he's a non-factor. Might as well sit on the bench. Inbounding at that moment was hugely disrespectful!

no it wasn’t,Kukoc won a game off that same play earlier that season vs the pacers with pippen inbounding the ball.

 

[GilSho]

The simple fact is disrespect gets disrespect. How the fukk you gone have Pippen inbounding the ball. Illuminating he's a non-factor. Might as well sit on the bench. Inbounding at that moment was hugely disrespectful!

Kukoc had already made 5 clutch shots that season alone. Pippen wasn't that guy.

Phil made the right call even if Kukoc didn't nail the shot.

 

[jwinfield]

The simple fact is disrespect gets disrespect. How the fukk you gone have Pippen inbounding the ball. Illuminating he's a non-factor. Might as well sit on the bench. Inbounding at that moment was hugely disrespectful!

All rookie year.

 

[mindgawn]

no it wasn’t,Kukoc won a game off that same play earlier that season vs the pacers with pippen inbounding the ball.

It was disrespectful then too. I dont care how many he hit. Giving him the opportunity is disrespectful. How many times did Phil draw up a final shot for Pippen when. MJ was the best player or for that matter when has any team drawn up a final shot for players other than the best on the team? I would suggest that having him out of bounds is the disrespect! I dont know why people front like they don't or can't see it. But I guess, rock how you rock.

 

[jwinfield]

It was disrespectful then too. I dont care how many he hit. Giving him the opportunity is disrespectful. How many times did Phil draw up a final shot for Pippen when. MJ was the best player or for that matter when has any team drawn up a final shot for players other than the best on the team? I would suggest that having him out of bounds is the disrespect! I dont know why people front like they don't or can't see it. But I guess, rock how you rock.

I know right, fukk running plays that have good chances of success and have proven to work several times before.

at it being disrespectful to run plays in the clutch for a guy that has proven to be extremely clutch.

 

[mindgawn]

I know right, fukk running plays that have good chances of success and have proven to work several times before.

at it being disrespectful to run plays in the clutch for a guy that has proven to be extremely clutch.

Again I ain't talking results I am talking respect and lack thereof. I am with you. It worked. I agree that it makes Pippen look bad. But god damn, if you 2 things cant be true. Rock on. I ain't trying to rewrite history. Kukoc knocked down great shots, but he was given opportunities to do so when he wasnt the teams best player & where they do that at?

 

[jwinfield]

Kukoc knocked down great shots, but he was given opportunities to do so when he wasnt the teams best player & where they do that at?

 

[mindgawn]

I dapped cause I like Horry.


My comment still stands. Where has the best player been asked to inbound the ball being a non-factor while a play is drawn up for someone else? Wording aside sentiment the same. It's about the best player being in the game but out of the play as an inbounder?
The unmitigated gall!!!

 

[Gangstar8]

Wait till an unbiased documentary is made in LeBron. He is gonna look worse

 

[Easy-E]

This Pippen hate.