Soundwave
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Just further to Pippen's salary too, when he signed the deal it wasn't that bad of a contract per se, he just signed for way too much term, but that was his own insistence, Reinsdorf (the owner) was even warning him against that.
But when he signed the deal it made him the 16th highest paid player in the NBA which wasn't bad for a guy who had never made the All-Star team when he signed the deal.
Even though Jordan got a massive pay day for 96-97 and 97-98 seasons (well deserved), Jordan was like the NBA's highest paid player only 2/15 seasons in the league I believe ... he may well have a case for being the most underpaid superstar in any modern pro sport relative to what he did for league revenues.
I can't really side with Scottie, it would be like Patrick Kane if half way through his original $6 million/per contract started getting upset that he was paid less than a bunch of other players and knowing full well he needed surgery and had the time to do it in the summer but chose to purposefully delay surgery until the season started to punish the team as they were trying to repeat as champions.
Like who would be cool with that? Pippen was a great player but he was also very immature at times (don't get me started on what happened with Kukoc and the 94 playoffs).
But when he signed the deal it made him the 16th highest paid player in the NBA which wasn't bad for a guy who had never made the All-Star team when he signed the deal.
Even though Jordan got a massive pay day for 96-97 and 97-98 seasons (well deserved), Jordan was like the NBA's highest paid player only 2/15 seasons in the league I believe ... he may well have a case for being the most underpaid superstar in any modern pro sport relative to what he did for league revenues.
I can't really side with Scottie, it would be like Patrick Kane if half way through his original $6 million/per contract started getting upset that he was paid less than a bunch of other players and knowing full well he needed surgery and had the time to do it in the summer but chose to purposefully delay surgery until the season started to punish the team as they were trying to repeat as champions.
Like who would be cool with that? Pippen was a great player but he was also very immature at times (don't get me started on what happened with Kukoc and the 94 playoffs).
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