Karl Malone Picks Scottie Pippen Over Michael Jordan For His Dream Team

Karl Malone Picks Scottie Pippen Over Michael Jordan For His Dream Team

Any former Chicago Bulls teammate of Scottie Pippen and would say that he was undeniably a good player. Pippen's brilliance of the game, coupled with his calm and steady on-court and practice court demeanor make him the ideal leader.

In an interview with “The Dan Patrick Show” on Wednesday for the Dream Team documentary that premiered that night, Karl Malone shad a pretty cool insight into why he would choose Scottie Pippen rather than Michael Jordan to start his dream team.

"I would have to start my team with Scottie Pippen," he said. "This is why I would take Scottie: Do you remember the time that Michael retired? I watched Scottie Pippen when the Chicago Bulls weren't really good and Scottie led that team in every statistical category, and I just remembered that. Plus, he's a guy who could care less about scoring. He wants to stop the best player on the other team. That would have been pretty cool, to see Scottie guarding Michael."

But, on the other side of the coin, any fan would say NBA was Michael Jordan’s arena, though. MJ relayed direction from the bench, found the open man, and guarded the team's best perimeter scorer nightly.  He took endless amounts of charges before every bit of contact was designated a charge, throwing his back completely out of whack along the way.  Also, MJ’s unanticipated "ability" to act as the game's 122nd-highest paid player in 1997 and 1998 allowed him to make in upwards of $30 million per season during his last two years with Chicago.

Well, if you yourself will build your own Dream Team, you will follow your own concept and not everybody else’s, right?

Posted by Andre Monohan on Sunday June 17 2012, 8:47 AM EST. Ref: Yahoo. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0