I remember the incident. Pippen was selfish. Sat out the final play. I was in my forties.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/14/sp...ning-play.html

mj didn't shoot 3's because he didn't have to. he could just go to the hole and had a better midrange game than lebron. but he was capable if he wanted to. and on the biggest stage. but, (shoulder shrug), whatever.

You make a good point. His selfishness came up countless times during their 6 championship seasons when he was asked to exert the most energy defensively of anyone on the team while also being the PG offensively, all while being overshadowed by Jordan when it came to notoriety.

It is hard to forget all those times he blew up and the Bulls were on the brink of disaster, but I somehow have because I can't recall any time when that happened.

he was selfish and lebron was scared. but they both recovered pretty well.

except he couldn't, and even if you were right, you'd just prove he had a flaw in his shot selection. NBA coaches took some time to realize the potential in the 3pt shot, specially the corner 3, modern players have that advantage, along with a few others tactical improvements to the game.

I think I need to actually list the percentages for everyone to see it. Here's a ranking of all the players on both teams by 3-point percentage the year before the Olympics. Keep in mind though that the 2012 guys are all taking a lot more attempts from 3 though so they'll be taking worse looks on average:

(2012 guys in bold)

Stockton .407
Bird .406
Iguodala .394
Harden .390
Durant .387
Love .372
Paul .371
Mullin .366
LeBron .362
Drexler .337
D-Will .336
Melo .335
Magic .320
Westbrook .316
Bryant .303
Jordan .270
Barkley .234
Pippen .200
Malone .176
Ewing .167
Robinson .125
Chandler .000

So, other than Bird whose back is too bad to play decent minutes, Stockton and Mullin are the only players who are even above average shooters on the 2012 team. It really is a big difference. Guys like Jordan and Pippen shoot way worse from 3 than even the worst perimeter shooters on this team. And again, Bird and Stockton were taking less 3s than any of the perimeter players on the 2012 team too.

he should give himself a pat on the back, he didn't cause a hissy fit while playing in the GOAT team and winning every championship on sight, damn that guy was such a rock. And they even asked him to defend, how demeaning.

still yet beating barbosa, splitter, and varejao by 4 pts and 11 pts in 2006 and 2012 respectively.

like mj said, wasn't one of the smarter things kobe has said.

Lebron didn't post up b/c he didn't have to blah blah blah

Except Lebron has a ring b4 MJ

the irony of scottie wanting the last shot so bad he turns into selfish mode, and lebron being so scared of it that he tanks the series and hides under his sheets.

I got u

with each game 2012 team plays, the evidence continues to mount. looks like i'll be here all summer guys

That's the joke.

O good, I was wondering why the F you would call him selfless

Add Stockton, MJ, and Pip to the team for Spain and people wouldn't be worried the current team would lose?

Yep. Pip was very selfish during his career.

dang ewing. you a beast. klove would be guarding you in the dream team played.

Lol of course we would, int'l comp has gotten much better. Haven't you heard?

worried? they almost lost to barbosa and company tonight !!! they would get beat if all you added was one of those guys!

people are worried right now, what's your point? (please don't answer that, it's rhetorical)

It is pathetic we are even worried about a team because they have a frontcourt of Gasol, Gasol, and Ibaka. That is sad.

Nene, AV, and Splitter played very well against us tonight. It is pathetic.

Replace the frontcourt scrubs with D-Rob, Ewing, Barkley, and Malone and this game would have been a blowout in the 2nd quarter.

the point's been proven - 2012 team is better 1-on-1 players, but only sub-par at 5-on-5, hence their underachievement over and over again against much less talented teams than the dream team, who would obviously crush them.

it's all about names vs names, but damn those 92 intangibles sure make a big difference!

actually, jalen rose said that nene and splitter did NOT have good games and yet it was two possession game with a couple minutes left.

obviously.

where is clownface - he's the one who posted this morning "let's see how they do against brazil this time."