Scottie Pippen

For his son and current basketball player, see Scotty Pippen Jr.

Scottie Pippen
Pippen in 2022
Personal information
Born (1965-09-25) September 25, 1965 (age 59)
Hamburg, Arkansas, U.S.
Listed height6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight228 lb (103 kg)[1]
Career information
High schoolHamburg (Hamburg, Arkansas)
CollegeCentral Arkansas (1983–1987)
NBA draft1987: 1st round, 5th overall pick
Selected by the Seattle SuperSonics
Playing career1987–2004, 2008
PositionSmall forward
Number33
Career history
1987–1998Chicago Bulls
1999Houston Rockets
1999–2003Portland Trail Blazers
2003–2004Chicago Bulls
2008Torpan Pojat
2008Sundsvall Dragons
Career highlights and awards
Career NBA statistics
Points18,940 (16.1 ppg)
Rebounds7,494 (6.4 rpg)
Assists6,135 (5.2 apg)
Stats at NBA.com Edit this at Wikidata
Stats at Basketball Reference Edit this at Wikidata
Basketball Hall of Fame
Medals
Men's basketball
Representing the  United States
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1992 Barcelona Team competition
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta Team competition
FIBA Americas Championship
Gold medal – first place 1992 Portland[2] Men's basketball

Scotty Maurice Pippen Sr.[3][4] (born September 25, 1965), usually spelled Scottie Pippen, is an American former professional basketball player. He played 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. Considered one of the greatest small forwards of all time, Pippen played an important role in transforming the Bulls into a championship team and popularizing the NBA around the world during the 1990s.[5]

Pippen was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team eight consecutive times and the All-NBA First Team three times. He was a seven-time NBA All-Star and was the NBA All-Star Game MVP in 1994. He was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History during the 1996–97 season, and is one of four players to have his jersey retired by the Chicago Bulls (the others being Jerry Sloan, Bob Love, and Michael Jordan). He played a main role on both the 1992 Chicago Bulls Championship team and the 1996 Chicago Bulls Championship team, which were selected as two of the Top 10 Teams in NBA History. His biography on the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame's website states that "the multidimensional Pippen ran the court like a point guard, attacked the boards like a power forward, and swished the nets like a shooting guard."[6] During his 17-year career, he played 12 seasons with the Bulls, one with the Houston Rockets and four with the Portland Trail Blazers, making the postseason 16 consecutive times. In October 2021, Pippen was again honored as one of the league's greatest players of all time by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.[7]

Pippen is one of the only two NBA players to have won an NBA title and Olympic gold medal in the same year twice (the other one is Jrue Holiday), having done so in both 1992 and 1996.[8] He was a part of the 1992 U.S. Olympic "Dream Team" which beat its opponents by an average of 44 points.[9] He was also a key figure in the 1996 Olympic team, alongside former "Dream Team" members Karl Malone, John Stockton, Charles Barkley, and David Robinson, as well as newer faces such as Shaquille O'Neal, Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway and Grant Hill. He wore the number 8 during both years.

Pippen is a two-time inductee into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, once for his individual career and once as a member of the "Dream Team", having been simultaneously inducted for both on August 13, 2010.[10] The Bulls retired his number 33 on December 8, 2005. The University of Central Arkansas retired his number 33 on January 21, 2010.[11]

He was formerly married to television personality Larsa Pippen, and is the father of basketball player Scotty Pippen Jr.

  1. ^ "Scottie Pippen". National Basketball Association. Archived from the original on September 25, 2020. Retrieved September 25, 2020.
  2. ^ Men's Tournament of the Americas – 1992 Archived November 20, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, USA Basketball. Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  3. ^ Smith, Sam (July 30, 1996). "You Think You Know A Guy But Then ..." Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on July 3, 2019. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
  4. ^ Fussman, Cal (December 16, 2011). "Scottie Pippen: What I've Learned". Esquire. Archived from the original on September 15, 2020. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference NBA.com was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Scottie Pippen". Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on June 24, 2016. Retrieved December 22, 2014.
  7. ^ nba.com/75
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference Olympics was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ "The Original Dream Team". NBA.com. Archived from the original on May 16, 2012. Retrieved December 22, 2014.
  10. ^ "Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Announces Class of 2010" (Press release). Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. April 5, 2010. Archived from the original on April 9, 2010. Retrieved April 5, 2010.
  11. ^ "Central Arkansas retires Scottie Pippen's jersey". NBA.com. January 21, 2010. Archived from the original on February 14, 2015. Retrieved December 22, 2014.