Pippen used the tape again to attack his former teammate and leader of the Bulls.
More than a year has passed since the issuance of The Last Dance (The last Dance), the documentary that recovered the figure of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls on their way to their sixth NBA ring.
A film that helped pass time during the hardest time of the pandemic, praised by everyone except for some of its protagonists such as Scottie Pippen, who has used the film again to attack his former partner and leader of the Bulls.
The forward, Jordan’s most valuable squire in his career for being the best player in NBA history, has unveiled a new excerpt from his memoirs (Unguarded will be released on November 9) in which he directly attacks Jordan and the reasons why he agreed to shoot the famous documentary, publishes newspaper Mark from Spain.
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“The last two episodes aired on May 17. Like the previous eight, they glorified Michael Jordan without giving enough praise to either me or my proud teammates. And Michael deserves a lot of the blame for that. The producers had given him editorial control of the final product. The documentary could not have been published otherwise. He was the protagonist and the director ”, assures Pippen in one of the passages of the book revealed by GQ.
The Arkansas forward pointed to Jordan’s true motive for giving the green light to the filming and broadcast of the documentary: “Michael he was determined to show the current generation that he was the greatest of all times. Even bigger than LeBron James, the player many consider not only their equal, but their superior. So Michael presented his story, not the story of the The Last Dance”.
The former Chicago Bulls player, who won six rings with Michael Jordan, says he couldn’t believe what he was seeing when the documentary aired: “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. Over and over again, the spotlight shone on number 23. Even in the second episode, which focused for a time on my difficult path to the NBA, the narrative returned to MJ and his determination to win. I was just an accessory. His ‘best teammate of all time’ called me. I couldn’t have been more condescending if I had tried. “
“Now here I was, in my mid-fifties, 17 since my last game, seeing how it degraded us once more. Already living it the first time was quite insulting. Every episode was the same: Michael on a pedestal and his teammates being secondary, younger, the message was not different from when he referred to us at that time as his supporting cast, “fired the former Bulls player.
“How dare Michael treat us like that after all we did for him? Michael Jordan would never have been Michael Jordan without me, Horace Grant, Toni Kukoc, John Paxson, Steve Kerr, Dennis Rodman, Bill Cartwright, Ron Harper, BJ Armstrong, Luc Longley, Will Perdue, and Bill Wennington. I apologize to everyone I have left out“Concluded a Pippen who has once again shown that the relationship with ’23’ was never easy and that it ended at the same time that Jordan announced his second retirement. (D)
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