THE LAST DANCE EP. 2 Recap,

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ESPN’s “The Last Dance” is a 10-part documentary that focuses on Michael Jordan and the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls.
Fittingly, the second episode of “The Last Dance” focused much of its attention on a quintessential secondary superstar: Scottie Pippen.
The Chicago Bulls forward, who rose from poverty and obscurity in Arkansas to become Michael Jordan’s trusty sidekick and a Hall of Famer, approached the 1997-98 season injured and angry. Pippen was entering the final season of a seven-year, $18 million contract that made him perhaps the NBA’s most underpaid player. Bulls ownership had refused to renegotiate the deal, even as player salaries soared. To make matters worse, General Manager Jerry Krause publicly acknowledged that he had engaged in trade conversations regarding Pippen.
Feeling taken advantage of and taken for granted, Pippen elected to postpone surgery on his foot. Rather than address the injury over the summer, he waited and missed the first two months of the season.
“I’m not going to f--- my summer up to rehab for a season,” he explained. “They’re not going to be looking forward to having me, so I’m going to enjoy my summer. I’ll use the season to prepare.”
Jordan, who considered Pippen indispensable and called him his “best teammate of all time,” wasn’t pleased.
Of course, that was easy for Jordan to say. He was fabulously wealthy, famous and powerful. And Krause wasn’t talking openly about shipping him out of town.
“Anybody can be traded,” Krause told reporters at a 1997 news conference. “Part of my responsibility is to listen to other teams when they talk to me about our players. We think Scottie Pippen is one of the top couple players in basketball and feel very strongly about him. … We had a number of offers that we thought were good offers. I’m never going to stop being aggressive.”
The Bulls were not the same during Pippen’s early-season absence. They stumbled to a 4-4 start and struggled to score. Jordan took out his frustration on his teammates, and a pair of behind-the-scenes clips show him tearing into Ron Harper during practice.
The problem, of course, was that Jordan didn’t have any help, and the Bulls were swept by the Celtics. Krause set about reworking the roster, trading for
Pippen at the 1987 draft, adding power forward Horace Grant and trading Charles Oakley for center Bill Cartwright. Suddenly, the core of the Bulls’ first three-peat was set.
Pippen arrived in training camp as a rookie having dominated weaker competition in college, but he was in for a rude awakening. The Bulls were Jordan’s team, and he needed to fit in. Jordan, for his part, bought Pippen a set of golf clubs as a welcome gift. Pippen saw through the gesture, joking that Jordan was “trying to lure me in so he could take all my money” gambling on the course.
The money issue dogged Pippen throughout his prime. Against ownership’s recommendation, he signed his long-term contract in 1991 because he valued security for his family in Hamburg, Ark. (population 3,500). Pippen had to consider severe circumstances: His father had suffered a stroke that left him in a wheelchair, and his older brother had been paralyzed in a schoolyard accident. That contract, the documentary notes, left him as Chicago’s sixth-highest-paid player and the NBA’s 122nd-highest-paid player by 1997.
A modern star would never find himself in Pippen’s situation. The current collective bargaining agreement more effectively ties performance to pay than the 1990s version: Most contracts run only four years, with a few exceptions for lucrative five-year deals. What’s more, trade talks are rarely made public by executives out of respect to players and agents, who wield more influence today than they did 25 years ago. The power dynamics have shifted so far that any GM who, like Krause, was disliked by his two star players and his coach would struggle to keep his job.
For Pippen, the combination of his paltry salary and Krause’s trade comments was a bridge too far. Coach Phil Jackson and multiple players recalled Pippen berating Krause on the team bus during the 1997-98 season.
“After you’re in the game for a while, you realize no one is untradeable,” Pippen said in a recent video interview. “I felt insulted. I took the attitude of disrespecting [Krause] to some degree. … I felt like it was time for me to go shopping. I had to do what was best for me.”
In late November 1997, Pippen went public with a trade request that threatened to strip Jordan of his trusted companion and bring the Bulls’ dynasty to a premature end. Episode 2 ends with Chicago desperately needing cooler heads to prevail.
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