Michael Jordan is not the only GOAT Scottie Pippen is taking issue with.
The Chicago Bulls legend has had a lot to say lately as he promotes his new book, “Unguarded,” but the Hall of Famer broke off from his criticism of his former teammate to take aim at the NFL’s GOAT: Tom Brady.
“It’s hard to place Tom Brady at the top of the NFL,” Pippen said in an interview with GQ Sports. “Even though he’s won a lot of championships, there are almost 70 players on each team, so is he playing every side of the football? Is he on kickoff? Is he on the punt returns? Because if he ain’t playing all them roles, then he got to give credit to his team.”
It's unclear when Brady has never given credit to his teammates, but Pippen’s attitude of the seven-time Super Bowl champion appears to stem from the same criticism he had of Jordan in his book, arguing that the Bulls won because they played “team basketball,” not because of Jordan.
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Pippen even called himself a better teammate than Jordan and says the team won in spite of the all-time great chewing out other guys on the team.
“We didn’t win six championships because he got on guys,” Pippen says in the book. “We won in spite of his getting on guys. We won because we played team basketball, which hadn’t been the case my first two seasons, when Doug Collins was our coach. That’s what was special about playing for the Bulls: the camaraderie we established with one another, not that we felt blessed to be on the same team with the immortal Michael Jordan.”
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