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Scottie Pippen

Born: 1965 in Hamburg, Arkansas
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Connection to Illinois: Pippen played for the Chicago Bulls for eleven seasons, winning six NBA championships.

Biography: Scottie Pippen played seventeen seasons in the NBA, winning six championships and two Olympic gold medals. He was honored as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996. Pippen is the only person ever to win an NBA championship and Olympic gold medal twice in the same year. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010. He lives in the Los Angeles area and you can follow him on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @ScottiePippen.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Non-Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Web: https://www.biography.com/athlete/scottie-pippen
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ScottiePippen
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/scottiepippen
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottie_Pippen
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0685011/
WorldCat: http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=Scottie++Pippen


Selected Titles

Unguarded
ISBN: 1982165197 OCLC: 1262749975

Atria 2021

An unflinching memoir from the six-time NBA Champion, two-time Olympic gold medalist, and Hall of Famer, revealing how Scottie Pippen, the youngest of twelve, overcame two family tragedies and universal disregard by college scouts to become an essential component of the greatest basketball dynasty of the last fifty years. So how did the youngest of twelve go from growing up poor in the small town of Hamburg, Arkansas, enduring two family tragedies along the way, to become a revered NBA legend? How did the scrawny teen, overlooked by every major collegiate basketball program, go on to become the fifth overall pick in the 1987 NBA Draft? And, perhaps most compelling, how did Pippen set aside his ego (and his own limitless professional ceiling) in order for the Bulls to become the most dominant basketball dynasty of the last half century? In Unguarded Pippen reveals never-before-told stories about some of the most famous games in league history, including the 1994 playoff game against the New York Knicks when he took himself out with 1.8 seconds to go. He discusses what it was like dealing with Jordan on a day-to-day basis, while serving as the facilitator for the offense and the anchor for the defense. On the 30th anniversary of the Bulls' first championship, Pippen is finally giving millions of adoring basketball fans what they crave; a raw, unvarnished look into his life, and role within one of the greatest, most popular teams of all time.

 

 

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