{"id":144505,"date":"2020-04-21T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T10:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=144505"},"modified":"2020-04-21T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-04-21T10:03:27","slug":"rodman-pippen-emerged-as-best-in-the-world-when-mj-left-for-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/rodman-pippen-emerged-as-best-in-the-world-when-mj-left-for-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodman: Pippen emerged as best in the world when MJ left for baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Rodman discussed with Espn&#8217;s first take\u00a0Scottie Pippen&#8217;s problems with the Bulls front office. (transcription via <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/2020\/04\/dennis-rodman-scottie-pippen-was-the-best-player-in-the-world-before-michael-jordan-returned?csp=trueanthem&amp;taid=5e9eb05dbea27e00015dfe31&amp;utm_campaign=trueAnthem%3A+Trending+Content&amp;utm_medium=trueAnthem&amp;utm_source=twitter\">USA Today<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t know what the tension was between and the management, because I never asked for that information, but I think it was just more where Scottie was unappreciated. Because if you know this about Scottie Pippen\u2026 when Michael Jordan left in \u201993, \u201994, \u201995, Scottie Pippen was the best player in the world. And people didn\u2019t know that. He led the team in every category, every category.<\/p>\n<p>Scottie got his wings in 1991 when they beat the Detroit Pistons. He got his wings then, and he started on that trend from winning three championships. When Michael left, Scottie took over \u2013 and next thing you know, he was the best player in the world. And people don\u2019t know that!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pippen ended the 1993\/94 season with 22 points, 8.7 rebounds, 5.6 assist and 2.9 steals per game. He was also named MVP of the All-Star Game.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pippen ended the 1993\/94 season with 22 points, 8.7 rebounds, 5.6 assist and 2.9 steals per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-144505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144505"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=144505"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=144505"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=144505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}