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[QUOTE=knicksman]Wow. people really overrate pippen when hes just a borderline all star caliber player. Pippen would just be iguodala if not for jordan. In short nothing.[/QUOTE]
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Jordan would've just come back eventually and signed with the Knicks or Lakers or something instead and won 3 more that way. He was gonna get tired of baseball eventually.
There would've been a massive bidding war for him as a UFA, the Bulls didn't have a life time contract on Jordan or something, their deal with him was up in summer of 1996 one way or another.
Bulls fans fluked out that the baseball strike happened basically at the perfect time for them. It also basically screwed the Orlando Magic, who probably would've won the title in 1996 otherwise and kept Shaq for many more years.
In that scenario, I think the Magic win the title in 96, the Knicks get Jordan, and win in 97, 98, and 99, with the Magic winning again in 2000 led by Shaq. Lakers dynasty never happens, Spurs dominate the 2000s.
[QUOTE=Fire Colangelo]Jesus Christ,
On one end you have retards saying how Pippen was the leader of the Bulls, on the other end you have Jordan stans saying how you can replace Pippen with [B]Ariza[/B] and generate similar results.
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Ariza could fill the shoes of Scott mutha%$#@*&^ Pippen?!
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ISH at an all-time low.
[QUOTE=knicksman]Wow. people really overrate pippen when hes just a borderline all star caliber player. Pippen would just be iguodala if not for jordan. In short nothing.[/QUOTE]
Spoken like a true Knicks fan. Bulls owned that ass in the 90's boy. You just mad. Flashbacks of Pippen raeping Ewing?
Iguodala...are you for real? I'm sorry but IMO he's one of the worst offensive players I've ever seen (taking into cnsideration $$ being paid). It's like Josh Smith shooting the ball hahahaha
[QUOTE=Poetry]To be fair, there were points when management considered Grant and then Kukoc to be more of a priority than Pip. They had a knack for making him feel like he was expendable.[/QUOTE]
I remember reading in the Jordan Rules how Jerry Krause was so obsessed with getting Kukoc over that he was willing to risk Pippen leaving by paying Kukoc more than him, despite never having played an NBA game and not having any cash to keep John Paxson around either.
[QUOTE=guy]Krause was an average GM not good. He made one great move in like 20 years when he got Pippen. Any competent GM should be able to put the right role players around two superstars, one of which is one of the GOAT. And he was fortunate to get Rodman for a backup center because the Bulls had the only leadership strong enough to take him on, which has little to do with Krause. If Rodman wasn't insane, there's no way they get Rodman without including at least Pippen.[/QUOTE]
Yea, I wouldn't exactly say Krause was a masterful negotiator in getting Rodman off the Spurs for a backup centre, it was just Rodman was a headcase who had absolutely no respect for David Robinson and Robinson didn't have a strong enough personality to keep Rodman in line. Both Jordan and Jackson could and the Spurs unloaded him for whatever they could get, anything was better than having him around.