The Last Dance: In Praise of One Lone Gold Hoop Earring

scottie has always been a weird socially awkward dude and an elite player

Dick Versace used to be on the Sunday late night local sports report and I must've missed half of everything he said because I was entranced by his "hair".

it’s like he was too cheap for a toupeé and just glued some cushion filler to his head

it looks SO weird.

I often think about how close the 94 bulls were to winning the title, how they probably would have beaten the rockets etc. And pippen pulled that shit in the midst of it! He was so close to building a legacy for himself as the mvp of a championship team but something inside him couldn’t tolerate Kukoc having a play run for him.

its pretty funny he still feels running a play for kukoc was unacceptable

also notable all these scores in 80s, an ot game in which neither teams gets to 100

xp Yeah I wouldn’t let it mar my opinion of him if he didn’t say he wouldn’t do anything differently if he could go back. wtf

id be apologizing my ass off for the last 25 years but a tip o the cap to him for walking his own path lol

It’s just so damn dumb. Doesnt change how much I like Pippen really at all but it’s like

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/ForcefulWideHoiho-size_restricted.gif

its especially funny considering kukoc hit the shot

I could only be just deeply embarrassed for him rewatching that...like, you won! How does he celebrate?

Scottie saying he’d do the same again is SMDH wtf is wrong with u

weird dude

i guess i find the pippen thing pretty overplayed. it didn't affect the outcome of the game or the series. he apologized right after. he had an out of character moment like all of us have.

the idea that it's a stain on his legacy or something is bizarre to me.

It's a juicy nugget

he’s a generally cool dude who acted like a jerk
that to me is news

I was milling around the concourse at united center before a game during the Chris Duhon-Mike Sweetney Era and a side door opened right by me. Out comes Pippen wearing a Santa hat, pulling a huge wagon full of toys. Shocked, I say "Scottie!" and he extends a handshake. Totally enveloped my tiny girlish hands. He is one lanky dude. I remember having to crane my neck to look him in the eye (I'm 6'1").

worth noting that although it worked out phil's idea of running a play for kukoc probably scanned as insane at the time, he was a rookie who ranked 11th on the team in true shooting. if they wanted to run a play for a shooter there were a couple of guys named steve kerr and bj armstrong.

kukoc hit a very difficult shot, it wasn't a good shot at all

yes, he didn't get a good look, idk what play they were running but process =/ result

Pippen is odd looking but he's hardly the most weirdly shaped dude on the Bulls, that would be Phil Jackson

all these scores in 80s, an ot game in which neither teams gets to 100

all through the 90s the NBA officiating, especially in the playoffs, allowed defenders to bang against, shove, muscle aside, hack, and occasionally outright mug offensive players. I hated that aspect of the era and I blame the Pat Riley Knicks as much as I blame the Bad Boy Pistons. To me that's not good hoops, and I'm much happier with the speedy, smooth, creative offensive flows of today's game.

I’ve always thought Scottie was really handsome. Watching this show has def given me a new appreciation for how CRAZY handsome MJ was; for some reason I didnt think so at the time but I have always been a committed contrarian when it counts lol

those knicks-heat series in the late 90's were torture xp

BJ wins the handsomest bull imo

astonished that bj "babyface" armstrong still looks younger than me

just watched the last episode and my god the labradford smith story

they brushed over the "it was complete bullshit" revelation WAY TOO FAST

My mom def had (has?) a crush on MJ but also thought Horace Grant was pretty handsome: "look at those high cheekbones!"
Only other NBA player's looks I remember her commenting on was Rony Seikaly: "looks like a Greek god" lol.

fascinating seeing winston cigarette advertising way up in the rafters in indy's arena in 95, i def don't remember that stuff being around sports arenas

worth noting that although it worked out phil's idea of running a play for kukoc probably scanned as insane at the time, he was a rookie who ranked 11th on the team in true shooting. if they wanted to run a play for a shooter there were a couple of guys named steve kerr and bj armstrong.

This seems to be the same play pretty much?

https://youtu.be/uUTfJlezXPY

^ Good thing the official timekeeper was working for a Bulls home game, because from the moment the ball touched kukoc's hands to when it left them was more than 0.8 seconds.

lol reggie was such a bastard what happened to him

a truly all time heel who sucks so bad at his job now that i can barely appreciate what he used to be

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EX1eSxhX0AEIK-M?format=jpg&name=medium

^ note MJ's tongue (in profile) and all the empty seats.

^ Good thing the official timekeeper was working for a Bulls home game, because from the moment the ball touched kukoc's hands to when it left them was more than 0.8 seconds.

Not the fastest catch and shoot but that’s all it is, hard for that to be more than .7

He catches while airborne, comes down, plants, makes a feint, then elevates, then shoots... in 0.8?

yes

watch it in slo mo

don't know what feint you're seeing there

I watched it again. Paused it and when he'd already caught it and was holding the ball at waist level, the clock shows.., 0.8 seconds.

isn't it 1.8 on the clock for that shot?

ANYWAY.. I just watched it again. not mentioned in the doc - pippen's last two good looks leading up to that were 1) a brick 2) giving up possession on a shot clock violation.

and it's out of his hands with .3 left so..............

........the Bulls officially won the game.

clock never really starts on the catch........because of the human brane