Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen spoke about the questions surrounding teammate Michael Jordan's Defensive Player of the Year award in his book 'Unguarded'.
Chicago Bulls legends Scottie Pippen and Michael Jordan have been far from friends since retiring, with Pippen even taking a jab at Jordan's Defensive Player of the Year award.
Jordan brought home the hardware in 1988, averaging 3.2 steals and 1.6 blocks, but a recent article fromvaulted the fraudulent part of it into the spotlight. This in-depth piece sparked a remark from Pippen's book 'Unguarded'. “Say I deflected the ball and tapped it over to . I should get the credit with the steal right? Nope," Pippen wrote. "More often that not, the steal went into his column in the stat sheet and I could do nothing about it… One night a scorekeeper came into the locker room… to hand the stat sheets to Phil Jackson… I couldn’t believe the look the guy gave Michael: ‘See MJ, we take care of you.
Jordan and Pippen won six championships together in Chicago, spending 10 years as teammates. The tandem made frequent appearances on the Defensive Player of the Year ballot, tying in placement twice while Jordan outplaced Pippen five of the other eight years."Breaking out his numbers into game location, we find that Jordan averaged a mind-boggling 4 steals and 2.1 blocks at home. But on the road, those numbers shrunk to a more normal rate of 2.1 steals and 1.
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