Chicago Bulls: 3 least favorite Scottie Pippen teammates ever

Former Chicago Bulls F Scottie Pippen’s least favorite teammates: Dennis Rodman

Here’s where we start getting down to the meat and bones of the list. Albeit, this spot on the list is situational for Scottie.

When the Hall-of-Famer and seven-time rebounding champ Dennis Rodman first landed with the Bulls from the San Antonio Spurs, there wasn’t really a warm welcome from Pippen. In fact, Pippen even apparently hated Rodman when they were first teammates in Chicago.

But that relationship was obviously able to smooth over as time moved along. It was just bad enough for a long enough period of time for Rodman to be able to make the list of the least favorite teammates ever for Pippen. There might be other teammates that were disliked by Pippen more behind-the-scenes. But the fray in the connection at first between Pippen and Rodman is, and was, well noted.

Rodman became an integral part of the back half of the Bulls dynasty teams of the 1990s. He only played with the Bulls for three seasons in the mid-to-late 1990s and won three titles in the process. The duo of Pippen and Rodman were just as important to the Bulls titles in the mid-to-late 1990s as Jordan alone.

Clearly, it had to work out between Pippen and Rodman eventually for this team chemistry to work as a whole for the Bulls. It came together in due time, and this duo would wind up as one of the most dominant defensive forward punches in the entire NBA at the time.