Scottie Pippen calls Michael Jordan 'horrible player' while praising LeBron James
NBA legend and former Chicago Bulls star Scottie Pippen threw Michael Jordan under the bus while praising LeBron James as the greatest "winner" and "statistical" player to ever live.
Pippen, 57, has been on a mission to slander Jordan's name ever since "The Last Dance" was released on Netflix in 2020 due to feeling slighted and disrespected. He continues to take shots at his former teammate and did so again during an appearance on the Gimme the Hot Sauce! podcast.
"LeBron is the greatest winner," Pippen said. "He's a lot older now and gets criticized a lot. He's never been a shotmaker. He's never been the guy to take the last shot. He's never been great at that. I said this many years ago, and I got criticized for it. When LeBron James leaves the game, he'll be the greatest statistical player to ever play the game."
Pippen bails himself out of a GOAT controversy by adding the "statistical" part into his answer and saying that basketball can't have a "greatest" player because it's a team sport.
James, 38, is the all-time leading scorer and no. 4 in assists, which backs Pippen's point, but he then continued with obvious shade towards Jordan.
Scottie Pippen disses Michael Jordan
Jordan, 60, has yet to respond to any of Pippen's outbursts, though his son Marcus Jordan is dating Scottie's ex-wife Larsa Pippen, which might add salt to the wound.
"LeBron will be the greatest statistical guy to ever play the game of basketball, and there's no comparison to him, none," Pippen said. "So, does that make him the greatest player to ever play the game? I'll leave that out for debates because I don't believe that there's a great player because our game is a team game and one player can't do it.
"I've seen Michael Jordan play before I came to the play with the Bulls. You guys seen him play. He was a horrible player. He was horrible to play with. He was all 1-on-1, shooting bad shots. All of a sudden, we become a team and we start winning. Everybody forgot who he was.
"He was a player that really winning was not at the top of his category. It was scoring. He was going at the scoring titles. It wasn't until Phil Jackson showed up that kind of changed the menu a little bit, and that still took some time, but that wasn't in the documentary."
Pippen went on to contradict himself by saying that the Bulls could have won two or three more titles if Jordan never left the team.
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