Solid assessment. You saved me the trouble of rewatching that game.

If you wanna play a race card, it WAS a racist move on Jackson’s part. Who would think to guard the rookie white boy in a tie breaker? It was brilliant strategy, and Scottie is showing that his athletic skills got him pushed through school.

I wasn’t aware of the two earlier missed isolation shots for Pippen within the last minute of the game. That actually makes choosing Kukoc an excellent choice if he had a hot hand because the other team would likely be expecting Pippen to again take the shot and might over-commit to guardian against him giving Kukoc…

Hes talking all this trash cuz he’s not just promoting his DIGITS bourbon, he’s also a customer. Every morning.

I wrote sports for a while and helped cover the team in Chicago during the first three titles (moved back to news after that). I don’t know about the “racist” stuff. I mean, at most, I think Phil often thought he was “down” with the black players (he was a bit of a hippie in his playing days with the Knicks, smoked…

This. So much bitterness so many years on. When I was a senior in college, my volleyball team was one win away from an NCAA tournament bid. We were in game 5 of the match, and the other team went on a little run to take a two-point lead. I hadn’t made an error, but the coach, out of timeouts, subbed me out for a…

The original play that was drawn up had Pippen tipping the ball in, but we all know how he feels about tipping...

I don’t have a lot to add to anything sports related - but I’ve always gotten the impression Scottie Pippen is a bit of a jerk. I remember in the Charles Barkley episode of “Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend” Charles basically says as much and says that everyone calls Scottie “No Tippin’ Pippen” because he was a stingy…

Go back to selling sandwiches, Scotty....

“The jury is still out on whether or not Phil Jackson is actually racist, but it sounds like Pippen, Jordan, and Jackson need to spend some quality time either in a boxing ring or with a therapist.”

I mean Scottie is still bitter about that shit after a quarter century? I mean maybe he is mad because right after the game Phil opened his press conference by telling the world Scottie asked out of the play. Yeah Scottie after you had played like ass in the fourth quarter of three straight playoff games, the coach…

I say this both as a 90's kid whose favorite athlete ever is Scottie Pippen, and as a white man who takes accusations of racism very seriously:

Fantastic pun work.

Excellent sarcasm, which not everyone here appreciates, apparently. Well played.

You shouldn’t need the /s. It’s incredibly obvious. And yet...

Looking at the responses, I suppose I did. But I genuinely didn’t think it’d be necessary.

Look, if the cop told the kid to ‘Freeze’, and he was holding ‘anti-freeze’, how is that not blatant failure to comply? Easy grounds for opening fire.

I believe the officer was quoted as saying “I swear, I thought he was black!”

No shit. If the cops are that jumpy they need to be in another line of work.

Traffic stops should not receive the death penalty.