Scottie Pippen = Bitchassness

To all my friends from Chicago or fans of Scottie Pippen ... turn away right now.

Quite frankly, I've never been much of a fan of former National Basketball Association player ... ho ass Scottie Pippen.

Yeah, he was a pretty good basketball player and he enjoyed a lot of success ... riding the coattails of Michael Jordan's greatness.

Pippen was one of those guys who always talked big game, but did so on the strength of success he achieved thanks largely to Jordan's greatness.

This all brings me to some current bitchassness coming from Pippen who, 20 years later, is still hating on the Detroit Pistons.

In the truest sense of what it means to be a hater, Scottie just can't let it go ... two decades after Jordan (you too Scottie) finally beat Detroit and ultimately started a string of NBA championship success.

Here is some of the bullshit Scottie had to say recently about the Pistons:

‘‘The Pistons were a nasty team,’’ he said. ‘‘You always had to expect them to play dirty because, remember, they were the Bad Boys of Motown. They’d go out of their way to be mean and try to hurt you. And because we had better athletes, coach Chuck Daly just let them play the way they had to play to win.

"Bill Laimbeer was no real athlete. The same for Rick Mahorn and Joe Dumars and James Edwards. We were faster, quicker, more competitive and smarter."

So, Scottie (who was known to take his shots at people ... see right) ... if you were so much smarter, quicker and faster ... how did the Pistons keep getting to the NBA Finals, win two championships and keep beating that ass all those times?

You couldn't have been that much quicker, faster, smarter and more competitive if you couldn't beat them. You should have been killing them if that was really the case.

Secondly, how can you take a shot like that at Joe Dumars, who is about the most sportsman-like guy in all of sports?

Dumars discarded more class the last time he clipped his toenails than Scottie Pippen ever had as a basketball player.

Magic and Michael: Old-School Competitors Or Old-School Haters?

I've been a little interested in recent stories about Michael Jordan and now Magic Johnson coming out and saying they could never have joined forces with each other (and Larry Bird) in an effort to win an NBA championship.

As some of you may have heard, the Miami Heat have secured commitments from free agents LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh as they begin a quest for an NBA title. Last year, James pursued one with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Wade with the Heat and Bosh with the Toronto Raptors. Wade has already won a championship in Miami, when he teamed with Shaquille O'Neal a few years back, and now is aiming for a second one with James and Bosh as teammates.

Back in the 1980s and 1990s, times were different. Bird, Johnson and Jordan pursued NBA titles with their own teams and achieved glory. Jordan won six with the Chicago Bulls, Johnson won five with the Lakers and Bird won three with the Celtics.

In their prime, Bird, Johnson and Jordan stayed with their teams and won championships.

Jordan recently said, "There's no way, with hindsight, I would've ever called up Larry (Bird), called up Magic (Johnson) and said, 'Hey, look, let's get together and play on one team,' but that's ... things are different. I can't say that's a bad thing. It's an opportunity these kids have today. In all honesty, I was trying to beat those guys."

Johnson added, "We didn't think about it 'cause that's not what we were about," Johnson said at Baruch College in New York, according to Bloomberg News. "From college, I was trying to figure out how to beat Larry Bird."

Are Johnson and Jordan telling it like it is, in the simplest of terms, or acting out like old-school haters?