Chicago Bulls: Scottie Pippen inadvertently rips Nike in latest Jordan comments

By now, most Chicago Bulls die hard have probably seen the film, “Air.”

The movie follows the account of Nike’s pursuit of Michael Jordan as the face of their basketball department, in a time where the company’s basketball division was a train wreck.

Sonny Vaccaro, a marketing executive, decides that he wants to gamble Nike’s entire basketball budget on one player: Jordan.

Why?

Because Vaccaro knew Jordan was great, and would become even greater.

Someone who might have missed the boat on that concept, though, is Jordan’s former teammate, Scottie Pippen.

God bless Scottie Pippen. He’s been absolute gold for a few years now.

“I’ve seen Michael Jordan play before I came to the Bulls. You guys have seen him play. He was a horrible player. He was horrible to play with. It was all 1-on-1, shooting bad shots,” Pippen recently told Stacey King on his Gimme the Hot Sauce! podcast a few days ago.

“All of a sudden, we become a team and we start winning. Everybody forgot who he was. He was a player who was really not at the top of his category.”

Scottie Pippen needs some serious help, and every Chicago Bulls fan knows it

According to Pippen, his former teammate was a horrible basketball player before the two of them joined forces.

That would mean that, everything we saw in the film “Air” was completely based on Nike pursuing a worthless basketball player. Vaccaro saw Jordan, thought he was great, even though he wasn’t, and somehow convinced Phil Knight to drop his whole basketball budget.

If Jordan was that bad, Nike probably wouldn’t have given him that endorsement. If Jordan was that bad, Vaccaro wouldn’t have been so convicted.

If Jordan was that bad, Dean Smith would not have trusted him, as a freshman, with a game-winning shot in the 1982 men’s NCAA Championship Game. Heck, if Jordan was that bad, Smith wouldn’t have given him court time in the first place, coming from a coach who rarely played freshman all that much.

If Jordan was that bad, the Bulls wouldn’t have spent the third overall pick on him back in the 1984 NBA Draft.

It’s a shame that Pippen has to resort to these shenanigans in order to stay relevant. The man has absolutely lost his mind over the past few years, and quite frankly, it’s sad.

It’s no longer funny. It’s borderline tragic, actually.

Scottie needs some intervention, and we can only hope his loved ones are able to provide him with some clarity one of these years.