http://chicagosports.com/columnists/content/column/0,2007,169000,00.html His back bothers him just about all the time now, really. "After I had those two disks pop out on me in 1998, it changed the whole mentality of my game," Scottie Pippen was saying recently as his Portland Trail Blazers were finishing a trip through the Eastern Conference. "I sort of had to accept not being the guy I was before. I felt my performance level would take a hit, that I would not be the same player I was before." Houston and Portland probably would have appreciated knowing that before Pippen signed the contract that pays him $18 million this season and $19.7 million next season, which he says will be his last in the NBA. . . . "I have to be happy and thank God. Here I was such a longshot from a small college … I didn't think I'd get drafted and now I'm in my 15th season," he said. "I don't know if my career could have been any better." "Unless maybe," he drawled, "I had been able to go to the Lakers from Houston."
Why don't you just be a man, Pip, and admit that you just SUCK! "Eww, it's my back." And I'm SO sorry you didn't get the opportunity to get a ring riding the Lakers pine. Loser. Please retire, and please don't pull a Barkley and change your mind at the last minute.
I guess you guys missed this thread in the NBA Dish forum yesterday...but I thought this great post by DAROckets should be posted here too:
what so he can try to do what Barry Sanders attempted retire and try to get on another team that way.... Hmmmmm......
