MJ gotta be thankful for havin pippen too
I love scottie
But this is very debatable.
You would have to had been around to realize how much MJ was carrying those bulls teams, especially in the playoffs. Pippen was a great utility guy, but he was not a 2nd fiddle in the sense kobe was to shaq or McHale was to bird.
And MJ and Phil held the front office up on 2 potential pippen deals. So here is the question.
1 deal confirmed on the table was pippen to Seattle for Shawn Kemp and Ricky pierce, in 1994, that Seattle back out of on draft night. Rumor has it MJ put the call in on not trading pippen , and if he got dealt to Seattle MJ would have joined the knicks. But let's say MJ comes back to the bulls to play with Kemp and pierce, or joined the knicks. Does he win a title without pippen? I say in both scenarios , jordan def still wins a title
Or , in 1997 the bulls were heavily considering rebuilding, and had a package on the table with boston to send boston pippen for their 3rd and 6th pick and antoine walker. Jordan and Phil killed that deal. But let's say jordan and Phil ok the deal. Bulls were looking hard at Keith van horn (who went 2nd) Ron mercer and Tracy mcgrady. So they likely would have taken mercer and mcgrady. This one is shaky because those 2 were so young. Could jordan have won a title with them, idk.
All I'm saying a lot of scenarios play out where jordan would still win a title. For pippen we saw what he was without jordan. Just saying.
