Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen, Batman and Robin, seemed like an indissoluble pairing, a 1+1 that was always 2 that always ended with a ring on their fingers, proving that they were one of the best duos in the world of sports. The relationship seemed unbreakable. However, Once they both hung up their boots, the distance between them grew increasingly larger… until it became unbridgeable.
At least on the part of forward from Arkansas who has once again taken advantage to try to overshadow Jordan’s career, considered the best basketball player of all time. After several statements in which he has shown his preference for LeBron James in that race for the throne for the best in history, now Pippen has questioned the statistics of ’23’ during his time with the Bulls.
A report by Tom Haberstroth in Yahoo raises questions about the numbers that led Jordan to be named Best Defender in the NBA in the 1987-1988 season., being one of the three players who has been able to achieve that award and the MVP of the regular league in the same season. Information in which it is stated that the statistics in Chicago were double those he signed away from home: 4 steals and 2.1 blocks at home for 2.1 recoveries and 1.2 caps away from Illinois.
Figures to which are now added the accusations of Pippen, who assures that at home some actions that he carried out went to Jordan’s statistical box: “I deflected a ball and sent the ball to Jordan. Should they give me the credit for theft, right? Most of the time it wasn’t like that. Most of the time he went to his statistics column and I couldn’t do anything about it,” says the forward in his biography.
“One night one of the scorers came into the locker room and handed the stat sheet to Phil Jackson and the rest of the coaching staff. There were the points, rebounds, assists, blocks and steals of everyone who had played. I couldn’t believe the look the guy gave Michael. “Look, MJ, we’ll take care of you.” It’s no wonder that in the nine full seasons we played together, he averaged more steals than I did in all but two years.”
“I deflected a ball and sent the ball to Jordan. They should give me credit for the steal, right? Most of the time it wasn’t like that and I couldn’t do anything” READ FULL STORY HERE>>>CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE READING>>>
Scottie Pippen
A few words that, together with the Yahoo! report, They call into question Jordan’s defensive merits, one of the weights in his favor in the balance for being the best of all time. But, Why Pippen’s animosity towards Jordan? Where does he come from?
Everything blew up with the broadcast of ‘The Last Dance’. The Netflix documentary series that entertained more than half the world during the pandemic was the starting point of a conflict that seems to have no end. Pippen did not take long to go out to the media to criticize his former captain when he understood that the tape made the rest of the Chicago Bulls players miss. “The documentary glorified Jordan without giving enough praise to me or my teammates. That’s Michael’s fault, who had editorial control of the product”said the Arkansas player, who also attacked Jordan for having been paid for the documentary, unlike the rest of the players on that team.
That was the trigger for a war in which the shots came only from the Pippen front. The forward also took advantage of the publication of his memoirs ‘Unguarded’ to attack the figure of ’23’: “Michael was wrong. We didn’t win six championships because he picked on us to motivate us. We won even though he did that. We won because we played basketball as a team.”, which hadn’t happened in my first two seasons, when Doug Collins was our coach. That’s what’s special about playing for the Bulls: the camaraderie we established with each other, not that we felt blessed to be on the same team with the immortal Michael Jordan. “I was a much better teammate than Michael ever was.”
2024-06-24 13:26:27
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