Scottie Pippen

Scottie Pippen

Personal information
Listed height	6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight	228 lb (103 kg)
Career information
College	Central Arkansas
NBA draft	1987: 1st round, 5th overall pick
Selected by the Seattle SuperSonics
Playing career	1987–2004
Position	Small forward
Number	33
Career history
1987–1998	Chicago Bulls
1999	Houston Rockets
1999–2003	Portland Trail Blazers
2003–2004	Chicago Bulls
Career highlights and awards
6× NBA Champion (1991, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998) 7× NBA All-Star (1990, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997) NBA All-Star Game MVP (1994) 3× All-NBA First Team Selection (1994–1996) 2× All-NBA Second Team Selection (1992, 1997) 2× All-NBA Third Team Selection (1993, 1998) 8× NBA All-Defensive First Team Selection (1992–1999) 2× NBA All-Defensive Second Team Selection (1991, 2000) Chicago Bulls #33 Retired NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
Career statistics
Points	18,940
Assists	6,135
Steals	2,307
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference
Basketball Hall of Fame as player
Medals Men's Basketball Representing United States 1992 Barcelona National team 1996 Atlanta National team

Scottie Maurice Pippen (born September 25, 1965) is a retired American professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is most remembered for his time with the Chicago Bulls, with whom he was instrumental in six NBA Championships and their record 1995–96 season of 72 wins. Pippen, along with Michael Jordan, played an important role in transforming the Bulls team into a vehicle for popularizing the NBA around the world during the 1990s.

Considered one of the best small forwards of all time, Pippen was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team eight times (all consecutive) and the All-NBA First Team three times. He was a seven-time NBA All Star and was the NBA All-Star Game MVP in 1994. He was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History during the 1996–97 season, and is one of four players to have his jersey retired by the Chicago Bulls (the others being Jerry Sloan, Bob Love, and Michael Jordan). During his seventeen-year career, he played twelve seasons with the Chicago Bulls, one with the Houston Rockets and four with the Portland Trail Blazers, making the postseason sixteen straight times. He is third on the list of most postseason games played, behind Robert Horry and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Pippen is also the only person to have twice won both an NBA championship and an Olympic gold medal in the same year. Pippen was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame on August 13, 2010.

Early life

Scottie Pippen was born in Hamburg, Arkansas, and attended college at the University of Central Arkansas. At the start of his college career, the then 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) Pippen was a walk-on for the now-former NAIA school and depended on his stipend for being the team manager and his summer job as a welder to fund his education. He eventually reached 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m). Pippen's 23.6 points per game average and near 60% field goal shooting earned the Central Arkansas senior Consensus NAIA all-American honors in 1987.

NBA career

Early career (1987–1990)

He was selected fifth overall in the 1987 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics and traded eventually to the Chicago Bulls for Olden Polynice.

Pippen became part of Chicago's young forward tandem with 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) power forward Horace Grant, although both came off the bench to back up Brad Sellers and Charles Oakley, respectively, during their rookie seasons. With fellow Bull Michael Jordan as a motivational and instructional mentor, Pippen refined his skills and slowly developed many new ones over the course of his career. Jordan and Pippen were known to frequently play one-on-one outside of team practices simply to hone each others’ skills on offense and defense. Pippen claimed the starting small forward position during the 1988 Playoffs, helping the Jordan-led Bulls to reach the conference semifinals for the first time in over a decade. Pippen emerged as one of the league's premier young forwards at the turn of the decade, recording then-career highs in points (16.5 points per game), rebounds (6.7 rebounds per game), field goal shooting (48.9%) as well as the NBA's number three leader in steals (211). These feats earned Pippen his debut NBA All-Star selection in 1990. Pippen continued to improve, helping the Bulls to the Conference Finals the 1989 as well as in 1990. However they lost both Conference Finals to the Detroit Pistons, and in 1990 Pippen suffered from severe migraines during the deciding seventh game as the Bulls were defeated.

The Bulls' first three-peat (1991–1993)

In 1991, Pippen emerged as the Bulls' primary defensive stopper and a versatile scoring threat in Phil Jackson's Triangle offense. He helped lead the Bulls to their first three NBA championships (1991, 1992 and 1993).

Pippen earned 10 NBA All-Defensive Team nods, including 8 on the first team. In 1992, he was named to the original Dream Team which competed in the Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. With the U.S. winning gold medal, both Pippen and Michael Jordan would become the first players to win both NBA championship and Olympic gold medal in the same year.

Pippen without Jordan (1993–1995)

Michael Jordan retired before the 1993–94 season, and in his absence Pippen emerged from Jordan's shadow. That year, he earned All-Star Game MVP honors and led the Bulls in scoring, assists, blocks and the entire league in steals, averaging 22.0 points, 8.7 rebounds, 5.6 assists, 2.9 steals, 1.9 three-pointers, and 0.8 blocks per game, while shooting 49.1% from the field and a career-best 32% from the three-point line. For his efforts, he earned the first of three straight All-NBA First Team nods, and he finished third in the MVP voting. The Bulls finished the season with 55 wins, only two fewer than the year before.

However, perhaps the most infamous episode of Pippen's career came in the postseason of his first year without Jordan. In the 1994 NBA Playoffs, the Eastern Conference Semifinals pitted the Bulls against the New York Knicks, whom the Bulls had dispatched en route to a championship in each of the previous three seasons. On May 13, 1994, down 0—2 in the series and tied 102—102 in Game 3, Bulls coach Phil Jackson needed a big play from his team to have any chance of going on to the conference finals. With 1.8 seconds left and the score tied, Jackson designed the last play for rookie Toni Kukoc, with Pippen instructed to inbound the basketball. Pippen, who had been the Bulls' leader all season long in Jordan's absence, was so angered by Jackson's decision to not let him take the potential game-winner that he refused to leave the bench and re-enter the game when the timeout was over.

Although Kukoc did hit the game-winner, a 23-foot fadeaway jumper at the buzzer, there was little celebrating to be done by the Bulls, as television cameras caught an unsmiling Phil Jackson storming off the court. "Scottie asked out of the play," Jackson would tell reporters moments later in the post-game interview room.

Teammate Steve Kerr elaborated when recently asked to recall the event: "I don't know what got into Pippen. He is such a great teammate and maybe the pressure was getting to him and he just could not take it anymore, no one knows for sure but he is a team player."

In Game 6, Pippen made the signature play of his career. Midway in the third quarter, a Horace Grant block on Hubert Davis triggered a Bulls fast break, in which Pippen ended up with the ball charging toward the basket. As center Patrick Ewing jumped up to defend the shot, Pippen fully extended the ball out, absorbing body contact and a foul from Ewing, and slammed the ball through the hoop with Ewing’s hand in his face. Pippen landed several feet away from the basket along the baseline, incidentally standing over a fallen Ewing. He then made taunting remarks to both Ewing and then Spike Lee, who was standing courtside supporting the Knicks; thus receiving a technical foul. His actions were perhaps motivated by having not drawn a foul call on a previous possession. This extended the Bulls lead to 17; they would triumph in the game 93-79.

However, the Bulls went on to lose the 1994 NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals against the Knicks in seven games. A key play occurred in the series at the end of Game 5 when Pippen was called by referee Hue Hollins for a questionable touch foul on the Knicks' Hubert Davis in the waning seconds of the game, which allowed the Knicks to shoot the game-winning free throws. This helped lead the Knicks to a seven game series victory. All seven games in the series were won by the home team, and the Knicks had home court advantage.

Trade rumors involving Pippen escalated during the 1994 offseason. Jerry Krause, the Bulls' General Manager, was reportedly looking to ship Pippen off to the Seattle SuperSonics in exchange for all-star forward Shawn Kemp, moving Toni Kukoc into Pippen's position as starting small forward with Kemp filling in the vacant starting power forward position in place of Horace Grant, a free agent who left the Bulls for the up-and-coming Orlando Magic during the off-season. However, the trade was never made and those rumors were put to rest once it was announced that Michael Jordan would be returning to the Bulls late in the 1994–95 season. The Pippen-led Bulls did not fare nearly as well in the 1994–95 season as they had in the season before—in fact, for the first time in years they were in danger of missing the playoffs (though much of this may be attributed to a lack of interior defense and rebounding due to Grant's departure). The Bulls were just 34—31 prior to Jordan's return for the final 17 games, and Jordan led them to a 13—4 record to close the regular season. Still, Pippen finished the 1994–95 season leading the Bulls in every major statistical category — points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks — becoming only the second player in NBA history to accomplish this (Dave Cowens did it in 1977–78).

The Bulls' second three-peat (1995–1998)

With the return of Jordan and the addition of two-time champion Dennis Rodman, the Bulls managed to post the best regular season record in NBA history (72—10) in 1995–96 en route to winning their fourth title against the Seattle SuperSonics. Later that year, Pippen would become the first (and to this date, the only) person to win an NBA championship and an Olympic gold medal in the same year twice, playing for Team USA at the Atlanta Olympics.

In the following season, Chicago finished a league-best 69—13 and again won the title, this time defeating the Utah Jazz. Amid speculation that the 1997–98 season would be the last in Chicago for Pippen, Jordan, and Jackson, the Bulls followed up by topping the Jazz again in the 1998 NBA Finals to cap their second three-peat. Pippen was selected as one of the NBA's Fifty Greatest Players when the league was celebrating its 50th season in 1997.

Later career (1998–2004)

After being in Chicago for 11 seasons, Pippen, the second all-time leader in points, assists, and steals in Bulls franchise history was traded to the Houston Rockets for the lockout-shortened season of 1998–99. Pippen's trade to Houston received a lot of publicity including his only solo cover of Sports Illustrated. He teamed with Hakeem Olajuwon and Charles Barkley, but there were chemistry problems especially with Barkley. In that season, the Rockets went 31–19, but lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in the first round of the playoffs, 3 games to 1.

On April 22, 1999, Pippen was detained under suspicion of driving while intoxicated, but the charges were later dropped due to insufficient evidence.

Pippen playing in Europe, 2008

Following the lockout-shortened season in Houston, Pippen was traded in the offseason to the Portland Trail Blazers, whom he helped to the Western Conference finals. But once there, they lost to the eventual champion Los Angeles Lakers in seven games, despite holding a 15-point lead in the fourth quarter of the final game. Pippen played on for several more seasons in Portland, but they never again advanced that far in the playoffs. After the 2002–03 season he signed once more with the Chicago Bulls, but due to injury problems he was only able to suit up for 23 games in 2003–04 and retired shortly after the season.

Pippen was a near-constant presence in the NBA postseason during his career, reaching the playoffs 16 straight years (11 with Chicago, one with Houston, four with Portland). He played in more playoff games than any NBA player except Robert Horry and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Retirement

Scottie Pippen, 2009

After retiring, he spent some time working as a basketball analyst for the Chicago Bulls. He was a special assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers. On December 25, 2005, Pippen debuted as studio analyst for the NBA on ABC. Before this he was a part-time analyst for ESPN.

The Chicago Bulls retired Pippen's jersey number in a ceremony on December 9, 2005. The team played against the Los Angeles Lakers that night, and Pippen was reunited with Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, Dennis Rodman, and Horace Grant during the ceremony. Pippen's jersey number 33 joined Michael Jordan's 23, Jerry Sloan's 4, and Bob Love's 10 as the only numbers retired by the Bulls.

In January 2008, Pippen made a brief comeback to professional basketball at age 42, when he made a tour of Scandinavia and played two games for top Finnish league team Torpan Pojat (ToPo), and top Swedish league team Sundsvall. In his first game, on January 4, Pippen scored 12 points in ToPo's 93-81 win over Porvoo. He registered nine points and nine rebounds in a 98-85 win over Honka on January 5. In his third game of the tour, Pippen registered 21 points, 12 rebounds, six assists and two steals in 30 minutes in a 102-74 Sundsvall Dragons win over Akropol of Rinkeby. The Dragons paid Pippen $66,000 for his appearance.

According to Investopedia, since retirement Pippen has lost $120 million in career earnings because of poor financial planning and bad business deals. Investment busts account for $27 million of the lost fortune.

Pippen returned to the Bulls on July 15, 2010 as a team ambassador.

During his playing career and after, Pippen earned the nickname "No Tippin' Pippen."

On May 27, 2011, Pippen generated a great deal of criticism by saying that Miami Heat star Lebron James may be a better player than Michael Jordan. This came only a day after the Heat beat the Bulls 4 games to 1 to advance to the 2011 NBA Finals. Many Bulls fans acted in outrage at the comment, especially due to the fact that Pippen played alongside Jordan in both of the Bulls three-peats during the 90's.

Player profile

Pippen was renowned for his defensive abilities, having made the NBA All Defensive Team 10 consecutive years during his career and leading the league in steals in 1994–95. Phil Jackson once described him as a "one man wrecking crew, capable of guarding anyone from the point guard to the five position." Pippen is one of three NBA players to record 200 steals and 100 blocks in a season, and he also has the record for career steals by a forward (2,307), as well as in the playoffs (395). He was skilled at staying in front of his man on defense, and particularly effective as a help defender, with his long, swarming arms in traps.

On offense, Pippen relied primarily upon his remarkable athleticism to gain an advantage towards the basket and slashed towards the basket for higher percentage shots. Early in his career, particularly, Pippen was not an adept jump shooter, who struggled when shooting directly on a line to the basket. He favored shooting his jump shots on angles, such as along the free throw line extended (to the right and left of the elbows of the free throw lane), such that he could bank the ball off the backboard into the basket. He honed this shot over the course of his career and was therefore able to become more effective at scoring from distance in the later stages of his career.

Legacy

Pippen is remembered as one of the most versatile and agile players, and perhaps most notably as one of the greatest defenders, to ever play the game of basketball. Much like fellow Bull Michael Jordan, Pippen could provide tenacious on-the-ball perimeter defense, or tough interior defense, and he was particularly effective as a help defender. He was gifted with extraordinary athleticism, even compared with other professional athletes, and skills in areas that bode well for basketball.

Pippen's unusually long arms and jumping agility gave him the ability to clog the passing lanes on defense, to block shots from behind on players that had managed to pass by him, to grab out-of-reach rebounds, to make unusual plays in mid-air, and to make passes around defenders that most players are physically unable to make. He often led the Bulls in assists and blocks as a result. Pippen was also a selfless player. His team-focused approach to the game was a key component in the Chicago Bulls’ championships. Pippen’s career assists total of 6,135 (5.2 per game) is a testament to that approach. It is the record among forwards and was 23rd all-time among all players when he retired (now 26th).

His intensive work ethic and athletic physique gave him the ability to consistently make highlight-reel plays, such as applying defensive intensity, forcing a turnover, stealing the ball and starting a one-man fast break that he would finish with a thunderous slam dunk at the other end of the court. As Pippen himself has attested, he and Jordan would compete to see who could force more turnovers and produce more offense from defense in each game (fast break points). During the 1990 Slam Dunk Contest, Scottie exhibited his leaping ability with a dunk from the free throw line. He was an athletic finisher at the rim, both with dunks and with a skillful finger roll shot that he added to his skill set over time. He was also a prolific perimeter shooter, taking about three thousand and making almost one thousand three-point shots in his career.

Pippen’s style of play is perhaps best illustrated by a play he made against the New York Knicks during Game 6 of the 1994 Eastern Conference Semifinals. While the Knicks had possession of the ball, Pippen pressured Hubert Davis with his defense on the perimeter and led him into a help defender in the paint, Horace Grant, who promptly rejected Davis’s shot. The blocked shot was rebounded by the Bulls and triggered a fast break. Pippen ran all-out down the court as the Bulls passed the ball around, and he received a bounce pass from Pete Myers (at the free throw line extended) to set up one of the most famous dunks in history. As Hall of Fame center Patrick Ewing jumped up to defend the shot, Pippen jumped from the left block, fully extended the ball out in his right hand, absorbed body contact from Ewing, and slammed the ball through the hoop with Ewing’s hand in his face. Pippen landed several feet away from the basket along the right inbounds baseline, incidentally standing over a fallen Ewing.

Career statistics

†	Denotes seasons in which the Bulls won an NBA Championship
	Led the league
Bold	Denotes career highs

GP	Games played	GS	Games started	MPG	Minutes per game
FG%	Field-goal percentage	3P%	3-point field-goal percentage	FT%	Free-throw percentage
OFF	Offensive rebounds per game	DEF	Defensive rebounds per game	REB	Total rebounds per game
AST	Assists per game	STL	Steals per game	BLK	Blocks per game
TOV	Turnovers per game	PF	Fouls per game	PTS	Points per game

Averages

Year	Team	GP	GS	MPG	FG%	3P%	FT%	RPG	APG	SPG	BPG	PPG
1987–88	Chicago	79	0	20.9	.463	.174	.576	3.8	2.1	1.2	0.7	7.9
1988–89	Chicago	73	56	33.1	.476	.273	.668	6.1	3.5	1.9	0.8	14.4
1989–90	Chicago	82	82	38.4	.489	.250	.675	6.7	5.4	2.6	1.2	16.5
1990–91†	Chicago	82	82	36.8	.520	.309	.706	7.3	6.2	2.4	1.1	17.8
1991–92†	Chicago	82	82	38.6	.506	.200	.760	7.7	7.0	1.9	1.1	21.0
1992–93†	Chicago	81	81	38.6	.473	.237	.663	7.7	6.3	2.1	0.9	18.6
1993–94	Chicago	72	72	38.3	.491	.320	.660	8.7	5.6	2.9	0.8	22.0
1994–95	Chicago	79	79	38.2	.480	.345	.716	8.1	5.2	2.9	1.1	21.4
1995–96†	Chicago	77	77	36.7	.463	.374	.679	6.4	5.9	1.7	0.7	19.4
1996–97†	Chicago	82	82	37.7	.474	.368	.701	6.5	5.7	1.9	0.6	20.2
1997–98†	Chicago	44	44	37.5	.447	.318	.777	5.2	5.8	1.8	1.0	19.1
1998–99	Houston	50	50	40.2	.432	.340	.721	6.5	5.9	2.0	0.7	14.5
1999–2000	Portland	82	82	33.5	.451	.327	.717	6.3	5.0	1.4	0.5	12.5
2000–01	Portland	64	60	33.3	.451	.344	.739	5.2	4.6	1.5	0.6	11.3
2001–02	Portland	62	60	32.2	.411	.305	.774	5.2	5.9	1.6	0.6	10.6
2002–03	Portland	64	58	29.9	.444	.286	.818	4.3	4.5	1.6	0.4	10.8
2003–04	Chicago	23	6	17.9	.379	.271	.630	3.0	2.2	0.9	0.4	5.9
Career		1,178	1,053	34.9	.473	.326	.704	6.4	5.2	2.0	0.8	16.1
All-Star		7	6	24.7	.442	.318	.625	5.6	2.4	2.4	0.9	12.1

Career highs

Stat	High	Opponent	Date
Points	47	vs. Denver Nuggets	February 18, 1997
Field goal percentage	16—17 (.941)	vs. Charlotte Hornets	February 23, 1991
Field goals made	19	vs. Denver Nuggets	February 18, 1997
Field goal attempts (Playoffs)	35 (3 OT)	vs. Phoenix Suns	June 13, 1993
Free throws made, none missed	10—10	vs. Detroit Pistons	March 31, 1998
Free throws made	13	at Los Angeles Clippers	April 23, 1999
Free throw attempts	21	at Charlotte Hornets	November 5, 1993
Three-point field goals made (Playoffs)	7	at Utah Jazz	June 6, 1997
Three-point field goal attempts	13	at Toronto Raptors	December 8, 1996
Rebounds	18	at New York Knicks	March 31, 1992
Rebounds (Playoffs)	18	at Miami Heat	May 1, 1996
Offensive rebounds (Playoffs)	9	vs. Los Angeles Lakers	May 15, 1999
Defensive rebounds	16 (OT)	vs. New York Knicks	December 25, 1994
Assists	15	vs. Indiana Pacers	November 30, 1990
Assists	15	vs. Washington Wizards	March 16, 2002
Steals	9	vs. Atlanta Hawks	March 8, 1994
Blocked shots	5	six	times
Turnovers	12 (OT)	at New Jersey Nets	February 25, 1990
Turnovers	12	at Houston Rockets	January 30, 1996
Minutes played (Playoffs)	56 (3 OT)	vs. Phoenix Suns	June 13, 1993

Achievements

21 career triple-doubles (17 regular season, 4 playoffs)

Led the league in steals (232) and steals per game (2.94) in 1994–95

His 10 NBA All-Defensive honors and 8 NBA All-Defensive First Team honors are each one shy of the NBA record.

Member of the Olympic gold medal winning USA Men's National Basketball Teams in 1992 ("Dream Team 1", Barcelona, Spain) and 1996 ("Dream Team 2", Atlanta, USA)

Selected in 1996 as one of the "50 Greatest Players in NBA History"

Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010. The 1992 Olympic Basketball "Dream Team", of which he was a member, was also elected to the Hall of Fame in 2010.

Pippen is also the only NBA player known to have recorded both 5 steals and 5 blocks in a playoff game, which he did against the Detroit Pistons on May 19, 1991.

NBA records

Regular season

Assists by a forward, career: 6,135

Steals by a forward, career: 2,307

Steals by a forward, season: 232 (1994–95)

Highest average, steals per game, by a forward, season: 2.94 (232/79) (1994–95)

Set with Michael Jordan

Ninth pair of teammates in NBA history to score 40 or more points in the same game: Chicago Bulls (110) at Indiana Pacers (102), February 18, 1996

• Pippen: 40 points, 10 rebounds, 2 assists, 5 steals in 44 minutes
• Jordan: 44 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals, 2 blocks in 42 minutes

One of at least two pairs of teammates in NBA history to record triple-doubles in the same game: Chicago Bulls (126) vs. Los Angeles Clippers (121), January 3, 1989 (OT)

• Pippen: 15 points, 10 rebounds, 12 assists (and two steals) in 42 minutes
• Jordan: 41 points, 10 rebounds, 11 assists (and six steals) in 47 minutes
• Jason Kidd and Vince Carter achieved this feat as well on April 7, 2007

Playoffs

Steals, career: 395

Steals, quarter: 4, third quarter, vs. Milwaukee Bucks, April 29, 1990

• Tied with many other players

NBA Finals

Three-point field goals made, game: 7, at Utah Jazz, June 6, 1997

• Broken by Ray Allen on June 6, 2010

Three-point field goal attempts, 6-game series: 39, vs. Seattle SuperSonics, 1996 NBA Finals

• Broken by Reggie Miller in 2000

All-Star

Three-point field goal attempts, game: 9 (1994)

• Broken by Ray Allen (2002)

Three-point field goal attempts, half: 7 (1994)

• Tied by Ray Allen (2005) and Tracy McGrady (2006)

Ranks 2nd in NBA history

Regular season

Highest average, steals per game, by a forward, career: 1.96 (2,307/1,178)

Playoffs

Minutes played, career: 8,105

• Trailing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Finals

Three-point field goal attempts, game: 11, vs. Utah Jazz, June 6, 1997

Turnovers, 6-game series: 26, vs. Phoenix Suns, 1993 NBA Finals

All-Star

Three-point field goals made, game: 5 (1994)

• Trailing Mark Price

Ranks 3rd in NBA history

Regular season

Highest field goal percentage, game (minimum 15 made): .941 (16—17), vs. Charlotte Hornets, February 23, 1991

• Only Wilt Chamberlain and George Gervin had more efficient games.

Highest average, assists per game, by a forward, career: 5.21 (6,135/1,178)

Steals, game: 9, vs. Atlanta Hawks, March 8, 1994

Turnovers, game: 12, twice
12, at New Jersey Nets, February 25, 1990 (OT)
12, at Houston Rockets, January 30, 1996

Playoffs

Postseasons played: 16

Games played: 208

• Trailing Robert Horry and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Three-point field goals made, none missed, game: 4, twice
4, at Cleveland Cavaliers, April 28, 1989
4, vs. New York Knicks, May 19, 1989

Turnovers, career: 602

Finals

Three-point field goal attempts, game: 10, vs. Utah Jazz, June 10, 1998

Steals, 5-game series: 12, vs. Los Angeles Lakers, 1991 NBA Finals

• Trailing Michael Jordan and Charlie Ward

Steals, game: 5, at Los Angeles Lakers, June 12, 1991

• Tied with many other players

Ranks 4th in NBA history

Regular season

Steals, game: 8, three times
8, vs. Orlando Magic, December 14, 1989
8, at Indiana Pacers, April 8, 1994
8, vs. Milwaukee Bucks, March 17, 1995

Playoffs

Personal fouls, career: 686

Other records

One of three players in NBA history to record 200 steals and 100 blocked shots in a season: 211 steals, 101 blocks (1989–90)

• Michael Jordan (1986–87, 1987–88) and Hakeem Olajuwon (1988–89) are the only other players to do so.

Second player in NBA history to lead his team in all five major statistics totals: 1,692 points, 639 rebounds, 409 assists, 232 steals and 89 blocks (1994–95)

• Dave Cowens (Boston Celtics, 1977–78), Kevin Garnett (Minnesota Timberwolves, 2002–03) and LeBron James (Cleveland Cavaliers, 2008–09) are the only other players to do so.

Only player in history to win an NBA championship and Olympic gold medal in the same year twice (1992, 1996)

Ranks 5th in career three-pointers made (200) and attempted (660) in the playoffs, and 6th in career steals in the regular season.

Chicago Bulls franchise records

Note: Pippen is second in most career totals for the Bulls, both in the regular season and playoffs, trailing only Michael Jordan.

Regular season

Highest field goal percentage, game: .941 (16—17), vs. Charlotte Hornets, February 23, 1991

Three-point field goals made, career: 664

• Broken by Kirk Hinrich

Three-point field goal attempts, career: 2,031

Three-point field goal attempts, game: 12, at Charlotte Hornets, February 20, 1995

• Broken by Kirk Hinrich on November 5, 2004

Personal fouls, career: 2,534

Turnovers, game: 12, twice
12, at New Jersey Nets, February 25, 1990 (OT)
12, at Houston Rockets, January 30, 1996

Playoffs

Three-point field goals made, career: 161

Three-point field goals made, game: 7, at Utah Jazz, June 6, 1997

Three-point field goals made, quarter: 4, second quarter, at Utah Jazz, June 6, 1997

Three-point field goals made, overtime: 1, at New York Knicks, May 11, 1996

Three-point field goal attempts, career: 531

Three-point field goal attempts, overtime: 3, at New York Knicks, May 11, 1996

Rebounds, career: 1,366

Rebounds, overtime: 3, vs. New Jersey Nets, April 24, 1998

Offensive rebounds, overtime: 2, vs. Cleveland Cavaliers, May 5, 1989

• Tied by Derrick Rose

Defensive rebounds, overtime: 2, vs. New Jersey Nets, April 24, 1998

• Tied with other players

Assists, overtime: 2, at New York Knicks, May 9, 1989

• Tied by Derrick Rose

Steals, quarter: 4, third quarter, vs. Milwaukee Bucks, April 29, 1990

• Tied with Horace Grant

Blocked shots, career: 171

See also

• List of National Basketball Association career scoring leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career assists leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career steals leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career turnovers leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career playoff scoring leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career playoff rebounding leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career playoff assists leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career playoff steals leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career playoff blocks leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career playoff turnovers leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career playoff 3-point scoring leaders
• List of National Basketball Association career playoff free throw scoring leaders
• List of National Basketball Association players with 1000 games played
• List of National Basketball Association players with 9 or more steals in a game

External links

• NBA.com Profile
• NBA.com historical playerfile
• Template:Espn nba
• NBA.com: Scottie Pippen Summary