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Just over a year after the basketball world stopped to watch The Last Dance every Monday, the documentary’s wound remains open in Scottie Pippen’s skins. The legendary forward of the Bulls and partner of Michael Jordan during the 6 championships achieved between 1991 and 1998 will publish his memoirs soon in a book entitled ‘Unguadrded’. Where, among many other things, he harshly criticizes MJ’s production and his representation of Pippen and those Bulls. “I could not be more condescending even if I proposed it” collects a small abstract published in GQ.
Last December, Pippen already let it fall that the glorification that the documentary made of the figure of Jordan seemed excessive to him. Now he also points to the contempt that this represents for him and his colleagues. In addition to mentioning the numerous omissions in which the documentary makes. The former player says that after the end of the documentary, he and Jordan met to discuss him because of the discontent that he had caused in the first one. When I finished seeing it, I couldn’t believe what I had seen. Even when the show focused on my difficulties, everything revolved around Michael. I was just a complement.
He also says that, speaking with the rest of his former teammates, they all had similar feelings. Aggravated by the fact of not having received any kind of financial retribution for their appearances, while Jordan pocketed ten million dollars. The excerpt ends with a well-known proclamation: Pippen feels the Bulls have never treated him the way he deserves. His anger at the documentary led to a call from John Paxson, the basis of the first trident of those Bulls titles, which Scottie felt was totally interested. ‘Unguarded‘will go on sale next November 10, and it will surely leave many more episodes like this.
(Cover photo by Jonathan Daniel / Freelance Photographer)
