Scottie Pippen: The Last Dance was more about Michael trying to uplift himself, to be glorified

6-time NBA champion Scottie Pippen in an interview with the Guardian spoke of the docu-series The Last Dance.

“I don’t think it was that accurate in terms of really defining what was accomplished in one of the greatest eras of basketball, but also by two of the greatest players – and one could even put that aside and say the greatest team of all time. I didn’t think those things stood out in the documentary. I thought it was more about Michael trying to uplift himself and to be glorified [the series was co-produced by Jordan’s Jump 23 company]. I think it also backfired to some degree in that people got a chance to see what kind of personality Michael had”

On racial justice in America professional sports:

Equality would be: how about we get some black owners? That’s equality. Michael Jordan owns one professional team. In America professional sports as a whole, there’s just one team [owned by an African American]. That’s not equality. Look at the head coaches throughout sports. We are far away from equality. All these owners they hid and shut it down when people started talking about equality. I’ve never heard the commissioner say we’re going to create more opportunities for black owners in our game. I think this is going to get kicked down the road.