Former Chicago Bulls superstar Scottie Pippen is widely considered the best-supporting player in the history of basketball.
After all, he played second fiddle to the greatest player ever to play the game, and together, they helped the Bulls win six championships during the 1990s. Like Jordan, Pippen was named to the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team and is one of the top 50 players of all time.
But if you ask Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf , he would remove the words’ second fiddle’ from our opening statement. According to him, not much really separated Michael Jordan from Pippen.
“A lot of people liked to talk about Scottie as being Batman’s Robin or the Lone Ranger’s Tonto,” said Reinsdorf during a 2010 interview . “I never thought that was the case, and I liked to think of them as 1 and 1A. They were very, very close.”
It too Scottie to put the Bulls over the top
The Bulls never missed the playoffs during Michael Jordan’s tenure in Chicago. But without Pippen, Jordan’s seasons ended in a first-round playoff exit, and he had a playoff record of 1-9 without Scottie.