Pippen changes tune, says former Bulls teammate Jordan is the GOAT
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Scottie Pippen has flipped his script, saying in a recent interview that Michael Jordan is the greatest of all-time.
Pippen briefly put his ongoing feud with Jordan aside to admit that his former Chicago Bulls teammate is the greatest player in basketball history.
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“For sure, I mean, you look at the MVPs that he was able to achieve,” Pippen told Australia’s Today show.
“I think it was all brought from us being successful as a team. Obviously, someone is going to bring those accolades home. Yeah, he was the greatest player in, definitely in basketball.”
It was a change in direction for Pippen, who offered a different answer last year when asked a similar question by former teammate and current Bulls announcer Stacey King.
“LeBron (James) will be the greatest statistical guy to ever play the game of basketball,” Pippen said on King’s Gimme the Hot Sauce podcast in May 2023. “And there’s no comparison to him. None. So does that make him the greatest player to ever play the game? I’ll leave that up for debate because I don’t believe there’s a great player because our game’s a team game and one player can’t do it.”
Pippen, a Hall of Famer, was a member of all six of the Bulls’ title-winning teams.
He has also been critical of the Jordan-backed Last Dance docuseries, which chronicles the final season of the 1990s dynasty Bulls.
“They glorified Michael Jordan while not giving nearly enough praise to me and my proud teammates,” Pippen, 58, wrote in his memoir Unguarded, which was released in 2021. “Michael deserved a large portion of the blame. The producers had granted him editorial control of the final product. The doc couldn’t have been released otherwise. He was the leading man and the director.”
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Further complicating matters between Pippen and Jordan is the romantic relationship between Pippen’s ex-wife Larsa, 49, and Jordan’s 32-year-old son Marcus.
“Marcus and Larsa are dating and have been spending more time together in recent weeks,” a source told Us Weekly in 2022 after the couple was spotted in public. “They are trying to keep it on the down-low because of the rift between Scottie and Michael.”
Pippen and Larsa were married for nearly 20 years and have four children together. They divorced in 2021.
There have been recent rumours that Larsa and Marcus could get married, although conflicting reports have the couple calling off the engagement.
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