Michael Jordan’s Close Friend Calls Out His Biased Portrayal of Scottie Pippen in the Last Dance

Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen were the epitome of domination in the 90s. Two men together ruled the NBA for a whole decade. Winning the three-peat twice, the two formed the most formidable duo in the league. The two were the protagonists of the 6 NBA championships Chicago Bulls won in a decade (1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998).

Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen were called Batman and Robin. There is a lot of truth in the narrative which widely says Michael Jordan would not have achieved what he did if Scottie Pippen did not support him.

Most teammates who achieve this much success together often turn out to be best of friends. Sadly, MJ and Scott did not have a proper friendship. Their relationship was professional and often confined to basketball only. Years after both the legends retired, there was a sense of some unresolved feelings between the two.

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In 2020, Michael Jordan’s docu-series was released on Netflix. The Last Dance revisited MJ’s legacy, unknown secrets, and his life story. Many teammates/players appeared to have some disagreements with how the show portrayed things of that time. Scottie Pippen was one of those players.

Charles Oakley speaks about Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen

Charles Oakley recently appeared on Club Shay Shay on YouTube. Along with other discussions, they also had a conversation about the apparent few differences between MJ and Scott.

Shannon talked about the quote in Pippen’s book, which essentially called MJ, selfish. This might have been because of what Scottie saw in The Last Dance. The portrayal of his lowest and the situation of 1994, when MJ was not even part of the team, were some things that Scottie did not like one bit.

In reply to this Oakley shared, “I mean you know Scottie, he felt hurt by The Last Dance yeah cause you know like I said I mean I looked at it you know like yeah they didn’t pump Dennis Rodman up a lot.”

“I mean like you said Batman and Robin [MJ and Scottie] and so Dennis Rodman was, it was a great third wheel, but I think Scottie maybe should have got more played in a positive way. But like you said, Mike had the remote control.”

In reaction to all this, Scottie had once claimed that he was a better player than Michael Jordan. The NBA world was sent into chaos as stars reacted to Scottie’s statement. Oakley also mentioned this on the show.

Oakley said, “Scottie can’t win the argument. He’s better than Michael. He said that a lot of times he’s better than Michael. But he can always have a point of view about what he feels about what happened and how things happen [but] he had to live with that.”

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Despite winning so much together, there still seem to be differences between them. Pippen has a reason to be furious at his former teammate. It will be interesting to see if the two will let this go or not.