At some point, Pippen needs to let the hurt go, but he is trying to sell books, and no one is going to buy a book in 2021 that is all nice, sweet, and loving.
People want the drama, and that is what Pip is giving them.
It will be a best seller if he drops an excerpt about what he really thinks about Future smashing his wife, Larsa.
In the interim, we have the excerpts he provided to GQ about his thoughts on the “LAST DANCE” documentary. You have to wonder if they would have paid him a couple of bucks, would he have been as vocal about how bitter he is about his relationship with Michael Jordan.
It seems like this was a late edition to the book because he was already writing it when the Last Dance came out.
Here is what he had to say about Jordan and John Paxton crying.
Each episode was the same: Michael on a pedestal, his teammates secondary, smaller, the message no different from when he referred to us back then as his “supporting cast.” From one season to the next, we received little or no credit whenever we won but the bulk of the criticism when we lost. Michael could shoot 6 for 24 from the field, commit 5 turnovers, and he was still, in the minds of the adoring press and public, the Errorless Jordan.
To make things worse, Michael received $10 million for his role in the doc while my teammates and I didn’t earn a dime, another reminder of the pecking order from the old days. For an entire season, we allowed cameras into the sanctity of our locker rooms, our practices, our hotels, our huddles…our lives.
“Pip, I hated how things turned out when you came back to Chicago. This organization has always treated you poorly, and I want you to know that I think it’s not right.”
“John,” I said, “that is all fine and dandy, but you worked in the front office for the Bulls for almost twenty years. You had a chance to change that, and you didn’t.”
He began to cry. Not knowing how to respond, I waited for him to stop. Why he was crying, I couldn’t be sure, and honestly, I didn’t care.
Pip goes on to say that Jordan used him as a prop, and he was very upset about it.
Wild times.
Flip the page for the video of Pippen speaking out on how bad it was on the Bulls.