GQ released an excerpt from Scottie Pippen’s forthcoming autobiography last week. Pippen complains about the way he and his teammates were portrayed in The Last Dance. Amongst his complaints was that the docu-series treated all of the Chicago Bulls’ success in the 1990s as solely the result of Michael Jordan. He also said that Jordan was condescending when he found out that Pippen was unhappy.
David Kaplan of ESPN 1000 was a guest on Keyshawn, JWill and Max on Friday morning. He told the ESPN Radio morning crew that Scottie Pippen complaining isn’t changing anyone’s mind. In fact, Kaplan says that it is just growing Jordan’s legend.
“Makes Michael even larger than life. Makes him even greater,” Kaplan said. “Scottie will always be remembered as a great player here, but he’ll also be remembered as the guy that sat out 1.8 seconds because he didn’t like the play, had a migraine. I don’t have those, thank God. I don’t know how sick he was. When Michael had the flu game, that was the worst thing that ever happened to Scottie because Scottie couldn’t answer the bell against the Pistons. Michael dropped 37.”
Scottie Pippen has not been great about hiding his disdain for Michael Jordan and his legacy in the last year and a half. From the outside, it certainly feels like a losing battle.
No one would be able to say for sure how the fans in Chicago feel quite like David Kaplan. The ESPN 1000 morning man says that not only is Scottie Pippen not changing anyone’s mind. He may just be causing Chicago fans to dig into their love for His Airness.
