Scottie Pippen: He and Michael Jordan Would’ve Skipped Dream Team If Isiah Was Picked

Scottie Pippen, just like the rest of us, is not above making shameless excuses. He even hints in his memoir, “Unguarded,” that if Isiah Thomas had been chosen instead, they would have sworn to not play for the “Dream Team” ever again.

In the Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen rivalry, Isiah Thomas, the captain of the “Bad Boy” Detroit Pistons, was not their favorite. “Over the years, there have been a lot of explanations for why Isiah didn’t make the team,” Pippen observed.

"What is true, however, is that Isiah would have made many people, including Michael and me, refrain from being a team member." “Judging by his stats, yes, I will not contest Isiah was worthy,” Pippen wrote. Team-building is more than numbers… It is about the chemistry of the team and regarding Isiah.

I would think it would have been whack”. And explain to Pippen himself that now is the case. The former best guard of N.B.A. Thomas, with good intentions remembered, sent a letter to Pippen in 2020.

Isiah Reconciliation Attempt

“In the spring of 2020, with the doctor, 3pd, Isiah wanted Isiah and Pippen to be able to openly talk,” Pippen wrote.

“He called B.J. Armstrong, who called me, ‘will you talk to him?’ B.J. asked”. Dude seriously? The man was never nice to me when I got into the league. Why do I have to make plans to meet him now? Everybody knows that Isiah is not an idiot.

He knows how he was portrayed in The Last Dance and why this is so. I wasn't going to help him with that”. “Bulls Joe Dumars, Dennis Rodman, and Isiah Thomas shake hands during the Eastern Conference Finals between the three teams in season 1.

The Pistons were swept in the Eastern Conference finals by the Chicago Bulls. As game 4 drew to a close, there were no formalities. Thomas and the Pistons stood up, went towards the locker room, and did not conduct a sportsmanship protocol with the Bulls.

In speaking with actor Michael Rapaport for The Players' Tribune in 2018, Pippen and Charles Oakley shared their experience with the child’s parent. Pippen, widely regarded as one of the top small forwards ever, woke up and punched the two-handed Radames when this badanneska asked him about the wizard.