
Pippen, unlike Barkley or Shaq, who is also his contemporary, does not have NBA television shows to use as a global platform. Opinion: Why I don't want to hear the GOAT chants for LeBron James LeBron James #6 of the Los Angeles Lakers celebrates after breaking Kareem Abdul-Jabbars all time scoring record of 38,387 points during the game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Februat Crypto.Com Arena in Los Angeles, California. Unfortunately (if understandably), he appears to have become increasingly embittered as he enters into his golden years at the same time that his and his fellow 1990s NBA stars’ legacies are debated. Pippen played with the sort of wide-open, triple-threat style that’s more prominent in today’s game, and he was terrific the year after Jordan retired – he nearly won a title himself that first season, and how differently we would talk about him now if he had. Pippen’s greatness as a basketball player was largely underappreciated when he was active and is perhaps even more so now. For example, he said it was a disappointment, during a late-career run with the Houston Rockets, to play with a “diminished” Charles Barkley, that LeBron James doesn’t have the “clutch gene” and that his former coach Phil Jackson was “racist.” (Jackson never formally responded to this accusation, but many of Jackson’s former players, most notably Shaquille O’Neal, leapt to Jackson’s defense.) Previously, Pippen has not been shy in his criticism of teammates or other NBA players.
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(A post-playing career that has been going on for nearly two decades Pippen, now 57 years old, retired in 2004.) In the wake of ESPN’s monster-ratings documentary series “ The Last Dance” - which seems to have particularly stuck in the former forward’s craw - Pippen called Jordan’s attitude toward him in the documentary “condescending” and maintained that Jordan “demeaned” him by not giving him the appropriate credit for the Bulls’ dominance. Pippen’s comments were yet another example of his increasing crankiness in his post-playing career.

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Peter's Peacocks and North Carolina Tar Heels during the Elite Eight round of the 2022 NCAA Mens Basketball Tournament held at Wells Fargo Center on Main Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. PHILADELPHIA, PA - MARCH 27: A general wide overall view of the court during a game between the St. Jordan became a better player because he had better players around him, which makes him like every other human who has ever played any sport, ever. Jordan was known more for scoring than winning before players like Pippen joined the Bulls, but the reason for this was less Jordan being selfish and more Jordan being surrounded by terrible players (like, ahem, King) and thus understanding the only chance his team had at winning was him personally trying to score every point.
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It should be said that there is a little bit of truth to this - but just a little. He was a player who was really not at the top of his category. All of a sudden, we become a team and we start winning. You guys have seen him play,” Pippen told King Friday. “I’ve seen Michael Jordan play before I came to the Bulls.

On a podcast hosted by his fellow former Bulls teammate Stacey King ( who was only around for three of those six titles), Pippen cut loose on Jordan in an unprecedented way - downright vicious, really.
