No. 2 – Scottie Pippen
Okay, I might not be sure about MJ, but Scottie Pippen is definitely a Dementor. He’s giving Patrick Ewing the business. I’m not sure there is a great comparison for a current player that matches up to what Ewing was back in the day, but he got done.
Pippen treated Ewing the way I would expect LeBron to treat Lou Amundson. Except, Pippen is a great comp for LeBron and Ewing is a legend while Amundson still struggles figuring out what his hairstyle should be.
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Seriously, LeBron did this exact some nastiness, though not after a dunk, to Draymond Green and managed to get him suspended. Pippen knows he just got nasty, too. He takes a victory lap and then heads over to the ref casually before engaging in laughter. Let me tell you what, no chance I ever smile after Ewing falls over in any context. Not if I’m on the same court. Forget it. Pippen just stuck one on him and let it be known.
He also let Spike Lee know. I love that Spike loves basketball. I love that Spike loves the Knicks. I also love when Pippen or Scottie or whoever else lets Spike know what time it is.
There isn’t a sweeter in-game dunk than what I just watched in that clip. Pippen put it down on Ewing, then gave him the business, then gave the business to Spike Lee, then gets a technical, then laughs about it and gets high-fives from teammates. One other thing – it was a playoff game. That’s how you know Pippen is a bad man. He gets a technical for ethering a dude he just dunked on in a playoff game and no one is even a little upset with him.
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