Pippen reneges, claims Jordan is best player ever

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Pippen reneges, claims Jordan is best player ever
CBSSports.com wire reports
June 24, 2011
CHICAGO -- Scottie Pippen made it clear he thinks Michael Jordan is the best player ever -- not LeBron James.

Speaking to reporters at a youth camp in suburban Lisle on Friday, Pippen says he was simply giving "LeBron some props as a player" when he suggested to ESPN radio last month that James could be better than Jordan.

Pippen says "all know that [Jordan's] the greatest player that ever played the game" and that his comments were taken "a little bit out of context."

Jordan's running mate as the Bulls won six championships in the 1990s, Pippen caused quite a stir last month after the Heat beat Chicago in the Eastern Conference finals.

A team ambassador, he told ESPN radio, that while Jordan "is probably the greatest scorer," James "may be the greatest player to ever play the game."

Pippen says he's spoken with Jordan several times since then and there is no animosity between them.

[Teddy Roosevelt]

Pippen says he's spoken with Jordan several times since then and there is no animosity between them.

LOL. Jordan checked him and forced him to retract his statement.

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Jordan checks people all the time. He's an asshole like that. Stephen A. Smith also said that he once called then-20-year-old LeBron having the best physique ever for a player his age, and Jordan drove past him in the backseat and checked him.

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I hope one day there will be like the greatest player who shoots like 65% off jumpshots & dunks just as well & wins eight rings in a row & is hands down better than Jordan. He's such a bitch when you give "all-time" credit to other people.

I bet you he gets heated when people call Bill Russell the "greatest champion ever". "Nigga, if I ain't leave, you'd call me the greatest champion!".

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Courtesy of Controver$y_King @ Da Sauce.

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LOL, that's a classic picture.