Also his joining the Rockets was basically the nail in their coffin lol, they did better with the corpse of Clyde Drexler. On Portland, he was not INARGUABLY the man in any way, shape of form. Sheed was their best scoring option (and did things inside) and guys like Steve Smith and Sabonis were arguably as important (if not more so) than Pippen. He was a very important piece of a deep team. They also choked like shit in Game 7 of the WCF, so not really a feather in his leadership cap if he really were their fearless leader.

I am not seeing Pippen as the No. 2 perimeter player in the league for very long if at all. Really? He was an excellent all around player but people get way carried away.