Scottie Pippen is mixing up the popular debate over which player, LeBron James or Michael Jordan, is the greatest the game has seen with a new player he thinks should be in the discussion: Himself. At a Nike event in California, he told a reporter from the Northeast Ohio Media Group that he thought he had a career worth considering.
“I was LeBron James before LeBron James,” Bulls great Scottie Pippen told Northeast Ohio Media Group. “It’s not even close.”
Pippen, who is often considered as mostly a very important teammate of Jordan during some of his best years, added that he was “no slouch” compared to James.
“They want to compare him to the greatest whether it be Michael Jordan or Magic Johnson, but he’s more closer to myself,” Pippen said. “It’s natural for folks to say that, but if you look at how he plays the game and how I played the game, you’ll see more similarities with us.”
