Scottie Pippen ‘Unguarded’: Corridor of Famer dismisses Kevin Durant’s Warriors in new e-book

Scottie Pippen is making headlines with his recently-released memoir, “Unguarded.”

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The Corridor of Famer has been within the information for feedback about his seemingly strained relationship with Michael Jordan however make no mistake, he understands simply how good of a pairing the 2 have been on the courtroom. In an excerpt from the e-book, Pippen positioned the Bulls dynasty above dynasties of current years, most notably the Warriors groups that featured Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant and Klay Thompson.

“I will stack our roster towards the Warriors any day — particularly our second three-peat groups.” Pippen penned in his memoir.

To additional emphasize his level, Pippen went by the matchups, taking Dennis Rodman over Draymond Inexperienced, Luc Longley over each Andrew Bogut and JaVale McGee and Michael Jordan over Klay Thompson, leaving simply the small ahead and level guard positions.

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“Me or Kevin Durant at small ahead?” Pippen continued. “You can go both method.”

Each members of the NBA’s seventy fifth Anniversary Workforce, it is no secret that each Pippen and Durant are two of the best small forwards within the historical past of the sport, however whether or not or not a matchup between the 2 of them could be a toss up is certain to be a subject of debate very quickly.

Over the summer season, Pippen and Durant turned briefly engaged in a confrontation, with Durant taking to Twitter to name Pippen out for issues discovered throughout “The Final Dance” documentary.

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Pippen did concede that “the one matchup clearly in Golden State’s favor could be Steph Curry over Ron Harper at level guard,” however adopted that time by including that Toni Kukoc could be essentially the most expert bench participant within the hypothetical sequence, which he added the Bulls would win in six video games.

Throughout their second three-peat, the Bulls compiled a 203-43 regular-season file, with Jordan successful league MVP twice and Finals MVP in every of the three championships. In the course of the three years of the Durant period in The Bay, Golden State compiled a 182-64 regular-season file and received two titles, with Durant taking dwelling Finals MVP every time.

Does that reply who would win a seven-game sequence? In all probability not, however there’s at all times the choice to simulate the matchup on NBA 2K.