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“I think Scottie Pippen’s decision not to go back into that playoff game spoiled his image among the fans, and I wonder if that will be the same case now with Amar’e,” Kerr said. “Ask anyone on the Bulls, and everybody loved Scottie. He was a phenomenal teammate. But he lost his mind for one moment and it cost him his reputation with a lot of people.” Yahoo! Sports

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Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen encouraged Chicago Bulls players, still dealing with the loss of Derrick Rose to a knee injury, that they are "still the best team in the NBA ... so go out there and play like it" before Game 2 of their playoff series against the Philadelphia 76ers on Tuesday. "Yes, you lost one of your brothers -- a warrior in every sense of the word -- but I know and you know you've still got a lot of fight left," Pippen wrote in a letter to the team posted on the Bulls website Tuesday. "You're still the best team in the NBA until an opponent proves otherwise. So go out there and play like it. You've earned that much with Derrick along the way, but you also won a lot of games without him. It's time to meet the challenge." ESPN.com

Chicago Bulls, Philadelphia 76ers, Scottie Pippen, Derrick Rose, Injuries 

With Rose facing a six- to nine-month rehab following surgery, Pippen wrote that the best tribute the Bulls could make to their injured leader is to win. "With or without Derrick, the ship has to continue to sail," Pippen wrote. "And as he told many of you, it's time to re-dedicate yourselves to staying on track. I know none of you are ready to stop working and you want more than anything to win for Derrick. That's the best tribute you could make for him. And in a way, it would very much make him a part of it. "He'll be with you the rest of the way whether he's in the gym or not, watching and supporting. While you hate to see what happened happen, adversity often brings a team together even more than they were before. It's all about how you react to that adversity." ESPN.com

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Scottie Pippen joined Bo Jackson and his Bo Bikes Bama effort on Tuesday in Alabama, embarking on a 300-mile bike ride through the state to raise funds for victims of last April’s destructive tornados. The participants are riding their bikes along the same path that the tornados took last year. “I’ve known Bo over the years, as we have both been part of the Nike family for a long time,” said Pippen of Jackson. “So I was excited to get involved in a great cause and it is a lot of fun for us all to be on the bikes.” NBA.com

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Scottie Pippen has ADMITTED he was a walking financial disaster ... and has NO right to sue over reports that he was dead broke ... this according to new legal docs obtained by TMZ. We broke the story ... Pippen smacked CBS, NBC, Arizona State University and others with a lawsuit last year ... claiming they all published stories that unfairly labelled him as a bankrupt ex-jock. Pippen wanted at least $1 MILLION from each outlet. TMZ.com

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Now, CBS and NBC have filed new docs asking the judge to throw out the case ... claiming they felt comfortable publishing their stories because for years Pippen "was the focus of a steady drum beat of press coverage recounting his ongoing and, by his own account, increasingly dire financial circumstances." In fact, the media outlets claim the former NBA star was quoted in a 2004 article about athletes with money problems ... saying, "You can wake up one day, and someone can decide to take everything you have." TMZ.com

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Scottie Pippen: I have to say that this year’s Bulls remind me a lot of our teams in the late 1980’s. When I look back at my first few seasons in the NBA, we didn’t dominate as a team. There were a lot of nights where we took a beating and got whacked across the head. But we got better along the way and we started to taste the success. With that came the pressure and expectations to be successful. That’s what this team is going through right now. NBA.com

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I can guarantee you that the series against Miami still lingers in the back of the players’ minds. Granted, they are focused on the task at hand this season, but it’s something that helps the Bulls play with an edge. Again, it’s like our teams in the late 1980’s, when we were a team on the rise and the Detroit Pistons were the defending champions. Even in the years we lost, we felt like we were the better team. The rest of the world looked at what the Pistons had done and how they worked their way to the top, and we understood that. But we didn’t accept it. The Bulls have to adopt that mentality and endure some of the same growing pains that we did. Granted, the situation was different in that the Pistons had won back-to-back titles and the Heat has only had its core together for a season and a half now, still without a championship. But it’s clear that if you want to get to the Finals this season, you’ll have to get past Miami. NBA.com

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Jon Robinson: So when 2K gets ready to make a game in 20 years, what current players do you see who will breakthrough and be on the list of 15 most influential legends? Scottie Pippen: There are some tremendous players out there. Kobe Bryant will be on that list for sure. I can see Tim Duncan making the list as well. There are a lot of great players out there who 20 years from now will still have their names in the video games. Jon Robinson: When you watch Kobe play, does he remind you of Michael at all? Scottie Pippen: I have to say yes to that. I think he reminds a lot of people of Michael because he molded his game after him. He seems to have a lot of Michael's charisma, and it comes across in the way he walks, the way he talks, and especially the way he plays. ESPN.com

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Jon Robinson: So for kids who pickup "NBA 2K12" but never saw you play live, what are you hoping they learn about Scottie Pippen by playing the game? Scottie Pippen: I hope they learn that I was an all-around player who tried to do everything. I hope they respect the way that I played, and that I played the game the right way. ESPN.com

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What N.B.A. players were the toughest for you to score against? Chris Mullin: Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen. They were very athletic guys who could disrupt your game and play great defense. New York Times

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Former Bulls star Scottie Pippen filed a multimillion-dollar federal lawsuit Tuesday that claims several websites falsely accused him of filing for bankruptcy when he’s actually worth at least $40 million. Pippen was listed as one of ‘‘15 Athletes Gone Bankrupt’’ in an article published on the CNBC.com website on April 26, the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago said. The article stated: ‘‘Pippen’s successes on the court couldn’t stop him from losing career earnings worth $120 million, including more than $4 million for a corporate jet that was grounded just months after he bought it.” Chicago Sun-Times

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Scottie Pippen claims he's been unfairly portrayed in the media as a walking financial disaster -- and now he's suing every media outlet that reported he went bankrupt ... claiming he hasn't been worth LESS than $40,000,000 in the last 10 years. Pippen has filed a lawsuit against TONS of online media outlets -- including CBSsports.com, CNBC.com, Arizona State University and more -- claiming they all falsely reported the former Chicago Bulls star had gone belly up. According to the docs, filed in federal court in Illinois and obtained by TMZ ... Pippen claims, "It is a most foul libel indeed to be falsely accused of being bankrupt." TMZ.com

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He doesn't take the microphone at the Rose Garden to address his loyal season-ticket holders. He's not comfortable with public speaking, we're told. Private, either, I guess. Scottie Pippen once called Allen to ask how he could stay involved with the organization after retiring. Pippen said: "Paul didn't even call me back." Oregonian

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Not willing to let Scottie Pippen off the hook so easily, I reached for the next best thing: Could he kindly clarify his position on the controversial statement he made (and subsequently, amended on Twitter) about LeBron James potentially surpassing Michael Jordan as the greatest player the game has ever seen? “My position is still the same,” Pippen stated. “You’re talking about a very young kid who came to the game at a very young age. Statistically, he will probably be the best player at the end of the day…based on the number of years he can get in, [he’s a] super athlete, very versatile in a lot of ways.” Pippen added, “My comment was not meant to belittle the greatest player in the game—he has truly made his mark with his style, with his charisma, with his brand—but from a statistical standpoint, I think [LeBron] has great [potential] to be recognized as the best.” My Sharoni

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Jon Robinson: Are you glad Scottie Pippen made the list of 15? A lot of people still only see him as your sidekick. Do you think he deserves to be on a Top 15 list of influential players like this? Michael Jordan: Yeah, I'm very glad. When you think about what he's done, he was a part of every team where I won. He was an important part of that and people tend to forget that. You would never have seen Michael Jordan win a championship without Scottie Pippen and Scottie Pippen never won a championship without Michael Jordan. So the two of us are a tandem and he definitely stands up as one of the elite players to ever play the game. He's in my top five. He's on my team. If I had to pick five players to build a team, he's my small forward. ESPN.com

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Bryant, who is reportedly considering signing with Italian powerhouse Virtus Bologna, may thrive, but the other players who are daring to head over are in for a shock. According to former NBA great Scottie Pippen and legendary clutch shooter Robert Horry, the stars of the 1990s would never have even dreamed of playing foreign basketball, and Pippen went as far as saying that the international hoops stage was beneath His Airness. "No. I could never see him going over," Pippen told the Daily News at the "NBA 2K12" video game release party in Manhattan. "Because of the status of the NBA at that time it was never any doubt that the NBA stage was the best stage, at that time." "I don't think any of those guys would have gone there," added Horry. "Overseas basketball wasn't as nice as it is now." New York Daily News

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The only player who will thrive in Europe? Bryant. "He speaks Italian," said Horry, who played with Bryant from 1996-2003. "I won't say he was born there, but he spent a lot of years there. That's almost like a second home. Of all the players you talk about, he'll be the one who's OK." Bryant's only struggle in Italy? He won't be able to curse at referees in Italian. But Horry doesn't think that will be a problem, either. "With him," Horry said, "he can curse in English, too." New York Daily News

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Your then teammate when you were with the Bulls, Scottie Pippen, was quoted as saying “I’ve never had a conversation with Dennis. I’ve never had a conversation with Dennis in my life, so I don’t think it’s anything new.” Why not speak to your teammates then? RODMAN: Well, I think it was important for me to go in there and win. I don’t have a job to speak to people. My job is to collate and understand how people work and make people believe in the fact that [I] belong there. Talking to people will come. Relating to people will come. If they see you performing and doing your job and being with the group, that’s all I want. Me and Scottie — we’re cool today. We’re a little older, a little wiser. We’re cool today. And me and Scottie never had a conversation. Me and Scottie and Michael never had a conversation in three years in Chicago. Only time we had a conversation was on the court, and that was it. NBCSports.com

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But Rodman and Thomas and the Pistons persevered, and became one of the great championship teams, and Rodman became one of the greatest winners, helping Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen get rings at the end of his career just as he had helped Thomas and Joe Dumars get rings at the beginning. The big crybaby. "That's why we love him," Thomas said by phone. "That's the guy that we all see, that we all protected, when he played with us, in the locker room, all the rest. When he jumped up and said something crazy, something outlandish, the guy who wore lipstick? That ain't the guy that we saw every day, turning into the glamour guy. The guy we saw on stage (Friday), that's the guy we saw every day." NBA.com

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