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Next chapter of disruption
Michael Jordan’s once congenial NBA partner Scottie Pippen is still annoyed by his companion – and is now going on tour with two other Bulls legends to tell his side of the story.
Scottie Pippen (l.) still has a grudge against Michael Jordan
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They were once synonymous with a perfectly functioning partnership – but now the story of Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen has developed somewhat differently.
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From 1991 to 1998, the two dominated the NBA with the Chicago Bulls and won a total of six championships. The relationship between the two legends has now become toxic, not least because of the popular documentary “The Last Dance”, which in 2020 provided a look behind the scenes of the sixth championship season in 1998, which was marked by internal conflicts.
Then as now, Pippen harbored resentment that he had not been given the respect he deserved. The now 58-year-old – who at the time also argued with the Bulls management over money – complained in his autobiography “Unguarded”: “They glorified Michael Jordan while they didn’t praise me and my proud teammates nearly enough.”
Now Pippen wants to once again present a counterweight to Jordan’s side of the story.
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Scottie Pippen tours with his side of the story
Pippen has been on an event tour through Australia since Friday, on the “No Bull Tour” he sits off stage with two former Bulls colleagues and promises more authentic insights into the legendary Bulls era.
The programmatic title “No Bull” not only alludes to the franchise name, it is an adult shortened form of “No bullshit,” which obviously sums up the fact that Pippen thinks “The Last Dance” is the opposite.
Horace Grant and Luc Longley also get involved
On tour with Pippen are two companions who also don’t speak well of Jordan and the documentary: Horace Grant, whom Jordan accused in the series of being the source for a critical tell-all book about “His Airness” – and the Australian center Luc Longley, who barely appeared in “The Last Dance” and was not interviewed, supposedly for cost reasons and because of the Corona travel restrictions at the time.
2.18 meter long man Longley – now with a completely changed look as a long-haired hipster dad – has now brought Pippen and Grant to his homeland, the prospect that Jordan and “The Last Dance” will also be gossiped about is part of the sales strategy .
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“Many people would like to ask us what we think of the misleading documentary. Get tickets instead and you’ll hear a lot about it,” Grant promoted his appearance at in the first three titles against the X-Factor in the second? I would have kicked Rodman’s ass!”
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Pippen just bitter? There is also criticism
However, not everyone is excited about what Pippen, Grant and Longley have to say. “I don’t want to listen to you motherf**kers about what this or that guy did to you or said to you that led to you having a ring,” former NBA pro Gilbert Arenas said in the direction of the legend -Trios.
The well-known presenter Stephen A. Smith from ESPN – the creator of “The Last Dance” – also reacted blankly to Pippen, whom he finds unnecessarily bitter: Jordan has emphasized his appreciation for Pippen often enough, Pippen focuses too much on the negative, “That’s a big mistake.” (The Last Dance: This is how the Bulls squandered the legacy of the Jordan era)
Many fans of Pippen and Co. are likely to be curious about what the once congenial teammate still has to say despite, or perhaps because of, the broken relationship with Jordan…
2024-02-25 15:02:40
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