Stunned Scottie Pippen Spotted Witnessing 23YO Son’s Tormenting Play vs Hornets

There’s something different about Scotty Pippen Jr. when his dad is watching. Scottie Pippen was in Memphis today to watch his son play. And play how! The younger Pip recorded a posterizing dunk on Tre Mann that blew away his 6x champ dad. The cameras captured Scottie’s reaction up close, seeing his aerial son throw down on the Charlotte Hornets player in the third quarter. He was the definition of a basketball dad seeing their kid excel.

Mann was guarding Pip Jr when he got the ball. Both didn’t have teammates in the paint. So the new Grizzlies acquisition propelled himself past the Hornets defender and went for a dunk. With Mann still in the way, he managed to sink the ball.

You could see Scottie visibly ‘oh’ at the fluidity of that move. The announcers chose that moment to remind the arena this is also something Scottie Pippen did to most of his opponents during his NBA stardom.

The Grizzlies ended up losing to the Hornets at 98-110. Scotty Jr. played 27 minutes and made 9 points, 10 assists, and 4 rebounds and overall impressed. He’s continuing to prove a good find for the Grizzlies who lost some key players to injuries. A good few predict that Scottie Sr. will be at Memphis games more often at the rate his son is going. Scotty Jr. keeps his family close. But with his dad in the house, longtime NBA fans can’t help but relive watching The Pip in his prime.

A Pippen family history of posterizing dunks

As the Grizzlies announcers pointed out, the Chicago Bulls legend is no stranger to a posterizing moment. One epic game we can’t get past is Game 6 the Eastern Conference Semifinals on May 20, 1994. The Bulls were playing against the Knicks after a Game 5 loss in MSG. And like Michael Jordan, the entire squad took it “personally.”

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The Bulls had a dominant response in Game 6. In Game 5, Pippen had to face the consequences of a foul that led to Hubert Davis making the game-winning free throws. Fueled with a need for payback, Pippen caught a pass from Pete Myers, took off, and threw down a disrespectful dunk on Knicks’ Patrick Ewing.

He took out his feelings on Ewing throughout the game, even getting technical. The Bulls won the game 93-79, tying the series 3-3. This was a decade before Scotty Jr. was born, but mean dunks seem to be genetic in the Pippens.

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