Scottie Pippen

Scottie Maurice Pippen born September 25 1965 is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association NBA He is most remembered for his time with the Chicago Bulls with whom he was instrumental in six NBA Championships and their record 199596 season of 72 wins Pippen along with Michael Jordan played an important role in transforming the Bulls team into a vehicle for popularizing the NBA around the world during the 1990s Considered one of the best small forwards of all time Pippen was named to the NBA AllDefensive First Team eight times all consecutive and the AllNBA First Team three times He was a seventime NBA All Star and was the NBA AllStar Game MVP in 1994 He was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History during the 199697 season and is one of four players to have his jersey retired by the Chicago Bulls the others being Jerry Sloan Bob Love and Michael Jordan During his seventeenyear career he played twelve seasons with the Chicago Bulls one with the Houston Rockets and four with the Portland Trail Blazers making the postseason sixteen straight times He is third on the list of most postseason games played behind Robert Horry and Kareem AbdulJabbar Pippen is also the only person to have twice won both an NBA championship and an Olympic gold medal in the same year Pippen was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on August 13 2010 Description above from the Wikipedia article Scottie Pippen licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia