Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan’s Feud: Every part to Know

From teammates to rivals. Regardless of Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan enjoying on the Chicago Bulls collectively for a few years, their once-tight bond has since deteriorated.

“They glorified Michael Jordan whereas not giving almost sufficient reward to me and my proud teammates,” Pippen wrote in his November 2021 Unguarded memoir, alleging Jordan’s The Final Dance docuseries didn’t characteristic sufficient of their teammates. “Michael deserved a big portion of the blame. The producers had granted him editorial management of the ultimate product. The doc couldn’t have been launched in any other case. He was the main man and the director.”

Jordan, for his half, had shared his NBA expertise with the Bulls throughout their 1997 season within the Netflix documentary, which premiered in April 2020. Within the footage, the businessman revisited the Chicago-based workforce’s basketball dynasty.

“I believe it was [a] real time regardless that we have been competing and we have been studying about one another and we have been pushing one another, these are nonetheless real occasions,” Jordan beforehand advised ABC’s Australian At present in August 2021 of his former teammates, noting he felt “unhappy” when it ended. “And also you don’t share these with too many individuals.”

Whereas Jordan revisited his basketball profession and rise to stardom within the Final Dance, Pippen was notably upset that his contributions to the Bulls’ success have been seemingly excluded from the documentary.

“I don’t assume it was that correct by way of actually defining what was completed in one of many best eras of basketball, but in addition by two of the best gamers — and one might even put that apart and say the best workforce of all time,” the Arkansas native advised U.Ok.’s The Guardian in December 2020. “I didn’t assume these issues stood out within the documentary. I assumed it was extra about Michael making an attempt to uplift himself and to be glorified. I believe it additionally backfired to some extent in that folks obtained an opportunity to see what sort of character Michael had.”

Pippen even claimed that he advised his former teammate that he “wasn’t too happy” with the collection. “He accepted it,” he added on the time. “He stated, ‘Hey, you’re proper.’ That was just about it.”

In his private life, Pippen was married to Larsa Pippen (née Younan) for almost twenty years earlier than their divorce was finalized in December 2021. Almost one yr later, Us Weekly confirmed that the Actual Housewives of Miami star was seeing Jordan’s son Marcus Jordan.

“Marcus and Larsa are courting and have been spending extra time collectively in latest weeks,” a supply solely advised Us Weekly in September 2022, after the Larsa Marie designer was noticed cuddling along with her new beau. “They’re making an attempt to maintain it on the down low due to the rift between Scottie and Michael.”

Scroll under for an entire breakdown of Scottie and Michael’s relationship historical past amid Larsa and Marcus’ newfound romance: