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Originally Posted by calmar
I know it's necessary for Jordan hagiographers to demean Pippen as "the best 16-6-5 player with migraines god put on earth," but the intellectual dishonesty is pretty ridiculous. The fact that Pippen got migraines in that one game and pouted and quit in that other game and has said and done embarrassing things in recent years has zero relevance when it comes to the facts: He was an incredible player who complemented Jordan perfectly. Off the top of my head, these are the all-timers who won championships since 1980 with a #2 not as good that year (according to PER) as Pippen was in the Bulls' title years:
1981: Bird
1988: Magic
1989: Thomas
1990: Thomas
1994: Hakeem
1995: Hakeem
2003: Duncan
2005: Duncan
2007: Duncan
2015: Curry
2016: LeBron
2019: Kawhi
2021: Giannis
2022: Curry
2023: Jokic
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Everyone knows how good Pippen was.
But the fact remains that in the biggest games, he just wasn't there.
Those teams were all legit championship contending teams.
That is seriously one of the dumbest posts we've ever seen. Just wow
Even in Jordans final game with the Bulls Pippen was just a warm body with his back.
And if you're actually using PER only as a measuring stick, than you're an idiot.
Those players you mentioned all had championship level players around them.
IT had Dumars who won a Finals MVP.
Akeem had Drexler who lead a team to the Finals
The 2003 Spurs team was probably the best Spurs team of all time.
LeBron had a guy called Kyrie who had a 40 piece in one game and hit the series winner.