Chicago Bulls: Scottie Pippen goes off on Jordan and Phil Jackson

It seems like the interviews that were done by the Chicago Bulls Hall-of-Fame forward Scottie Pippen in the past couple of weeks can’t stay out of the headlines. At first, there was the GQ interview he did where he called out a few players, namely the Brooklyn Nets superstar forward Kevin Durant.

And that was something that KD didn’t take too kindly to. KD swiftly responded to Pippen on social media, calling out the Bulls Hall-of-Famer and six-time NBA Champion by stating that essentially players wanted to join the Bulls for the legendary head coach Phil Jackson and not to play with him.

Also, he called out Pippen for taking himself out of the game in the playoffs in 1994 against the New York Knicks when a clutch-time play was called for forward Toni Kukoc instead of him.

Pippen took to the air again this week, with the Dan Patrick Show on June 28, in which he called out more people that were either his teammates, coaches, or fellow NBA players. Really just anyone involved with the NBA that’s a big name seems to be a target of Pippen at this point.

Moreover, that interview with the Dan Patrick Show obviously sparked all sorts of reactions, starting with Pippen calling out Jackson for racial reasons and the all-time great shooting guard Michael Jordan for more in-game qualms. Some of this was summed up in a piece from Joe Cowley of the Chicago Sun-Times this week.

Chicago Bulls Hall-of-Famer Scottie Pippen calling out Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson

It was summed up very quickly in this post on the Twitter timeline of the Dan Patrick Show on the morning of June 28 on any feelings that Pippen had about Phil on the matter of race. That is what largely sparked a social media uproar following the release of this interview.

As far as Pippen calling out Jordan is concerned, it seems like he had a problem with the way that all of this attention went the way of the legendary shooting guard and former North Carolina Tar Heel. He mentioned in the GQ Interview on the matter of how the Bulls beat teams throughout the dynasty years of the 1990s that “Michael Jordan didn’t beat them” but that “the Chicago Bulls beat them”.

The remarks made by Pippen continue to draw a reaction on social media, and we’ll continue to follow any interviews he does in the coming days and weeks. He’s surely stayed in the thick of the media headlines for what he spoke on with GQ and the Dan Patrick Show in the past couple of weeks.

Pippen essentially calling Jordan selfish and calling out anything race-related from Jackson is something that wasn’t going to fly under the radar.

As a whole, the Bulls 1990s dynasty teams have stayed in the thick of the spotlight since really the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That was when the 10-part his ABC/ESPN/Netflix docuseries “The Last Dance” was released highlighting Jordan and the 1997-98 Bulls-title winning team.