"The last hours before draft night, I flew to Chicago and got a physical, and had conversations with Jerry Krause and everything. Scottie Pippen is undoubtedly the best sidekick in all of basketball. When confronted with something that challenges our understanding of what is right and good, it’s easy to respond defensively, Contact Us | The 7-time All-Star also wanted a change in scenery, saying “I hope I am” when asked by the late Craig Sager about a potential trade.
The two teams would meet two years later in the NBA Finals, where Pippen’s Sonics history was a heavily-discussed subplot, Jordan saying he was glad the 1994 trade hadn’t worked out. At 16, the Sonics took guard Dana Barros out of Boston College, the player they most wanted. The day before the draft, rumors swirled of a possible swap of picks between the Bulls and Sonics, who would go on to be involved in a number of deals over the coming years. Although this could have prepared the Bulls in the second post-Jordan era, no doubt Chicago wouldn’t have completed its second three-peat had they pulled off this swap. The deal: Pippen, Will Perdue and the No. Michael Jordan vetoed the trade that would have swapped Scottie Pippen for T-Mac ahead of the 1997-98 season. Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen was really a Sonic for a little while? He shared his thoughts on ESPN's "The Jump" on Monday afternoon: "The first thing that stuck out to me, because I was almost a part of that, was that in 1997 Jerry Krause wanted to trade [Scottie] Pippen. Turns out, the Bulls’ 1997-98 season, which is the subject of the 10-episode series, was also Pippen’s last season with the Bulls (other than a return for a few games at the end of his career), and the second episode focused heavily on his contract squabble with the team that led to his eventual departure, which in turn led to chronicling how Pippen became a Bull in the first place. Krause's plan almost came to fruition, as he apparently had a deal lined up prior to draft night in 1997 that would have sent out Pippen in return for McGrady. According to Sam Smith in his book the “Second Coming,” Clippers executives Elgin Baylor and Andy Roeser pressed hard during the 1995 trade deadline for a deal for Pippen. After the Payton-Kemp-led Sonics went 63-19 in 93-94 but were bounced out of the playoffs in the first round, Seattle weighed a blockbuster move prior to the 1994 draft – trading Kemp, guard Ricky Pierce and a first-round pick to Chicago for Pippen. As the opening chapters of the documentary explained in detail, then-Bulls GM Jerry Krause wanted to start rebuilding after the 1996-97 campaign, and that included trading Scottie Pippen.
Although Tim Duncan was the player everyone coveted in the draft that year, the Bulls would have been happy with a haul that could have resulted in the likes of either Keith Van Horn, Ron Mercer, and Tracy McGrady. One of them was Hall of Famer Tracy McGrady, who was nearly traded to the Bulls ahead of the 1997-98 season. 11 overall pick). The reported deal had Seattle giving the Bulls the fifth overall selection that it had gotten from the Knicks and Chicago giving Seattle its choice at No.
While Pippen quickly emerged as the missing piece the Jordan-era Bulls needed to become one of the greatest sports dynasties ever, Polynice would play three seasons for Seattle and part of another before being included in a trade with the Clippers that netted Seattle center Benoit Benjamin in 1991 (Polynice later returned to play for Seattle in 1998-99 as well, and don’t get us started on Benjamin). In his prime, the 6-foot-8 two-way superstar was good enough to be the number one option in any team in the league. Jordan just retired a year ago while Pip’s value was an all-time high following career-best averages across the board. Seattle eventually traded the second-round pick back to Chicago for guard Sam Vincent, and then later traded Vincent back to the Bulls for Sedale Threatt, a starter at guard for Seattle for most of the 1989-90 and 1990-91 seasons. The 6-9 McKey was also known for his defense and all-around game. But beyond the what ifs, the thing that might stick out the most about McGrady's comments is that they reinforce how important this documentary is to so many people -- players, coaches, executives on the team, those some way involved like McGrady and even viewers at home. The 6-11 Polynice had helped lead Virginia to the Final Four at the Kingdome in 1984, adding a defensive and intimidation presence in the middle that the Sonics coveted. Pippen’s near-misses with Seattle didn’t end there. The Hamburg, Arkansas-native had fought through contract disputes and feeling undervalued for much of his stay in Chicago. The main reason the trade never went through is because Michael Jordan vetoed the whole thing. How does that change the trajectory of his career? Things have gotten so out of hand that then Bulls GM Jerry Krause tried to trade away Pippen on more than one occasion. But the Clippers took Williams at four, leaving the Sonics to take Pippen at five for the Bulls, with the trade having been rumored but not yet made official. The Sonics also hoped that taking Pippen would result in a little run on guards for the next few picks. But as is almost always the case in these things, it’s a little more complicated than simply saying all Seattle got was Olden Polynice – a center who would average 7.8 points in his career and just five points in five seasons with the Sonics – in return.
Years later, Roeser confirmed the Pippen trade talks but claimed that no agreement was ever put in place.
The trade: Things may have been bad after the 1993-94 season in Chicago, but they got quite a bit worse when … Sports > NBA Yes, the Sonics traded Scottie Pippen for Olden Polynice – but there’s a lot more to the story. All Rights Reserved. Had the deal been accepted by both parties, we could have McGrady and Walker in Bulls uniforms while Scottie would have pledged to the green.
No doubt the Raptors would have been the winners of this one had it gone through. A frantic night of trade talks throughout the National Basketball Association led to one very interesting possibility involving the Bulls' Scottie Pippen. Guns and sexual violence: What's the big deal. Before weight issues grounded the 6-foot-10 rim-rocker, Kemp was an absolute destroyer and would have given the Bulls another fearsome interior presence. The Bulls seemingly dodged a bullet on this one, as Majerle’s production dipped each year, while Person’s career was rather underwhelming.
In his prime, the 6-foot-8 two-way superstar was good enough to be the number one option in any team in the league. In hindsight, the Sonics’ spread was quite enticing. Or, depending on your age, maybe even an entirely new lesson in some unfortunate Seattle basketball history. Terms of Use | Obviously the current circumstances aren't what anyone wants, but it's rare that we all get to experience something like this together. Kemp can’t.”.
21 overall pick in 1994 for Shawn Kemp, Ricky Pierce and the No. All signs pointed to the trade pushing through up until Seattle ultimately nixed the offer. “While we dragged our feet on draft day, (Bulls general manager Jerry) Krause got desperate,” Karl wrote. As Glenn Nelson of the Seattle Times later wrote, getting Barros meant the Sonics could use their next pick to “take a gamble” on an intriguing forward who was just a year removed from high school named Shawn Kemp.
Partner of iOne Digital / Cassius Network. UPDATED: Mon., April 27, 2020. Yes, the Sonics really did draft Pippen and then trade him to the Bulls, and yes the team came to greatly regret that move. If it's the Raptors, how does a Vince Carter-Scottie Pippen fare in a weakened Eastern Conference? A Trade That Never Happened: Shawn Kemp For Scottie Pippen Scottie Pippen was drafted by the Seattle Supersonics in 1987, but was traded to the Chicago Bulls for Olden Polynice. Covering the impact of coronavirus on the sports world. So, consider this a refresher on how Pippen briefly was a Sonic in 1987 – as well as the maybe more-forgotten story of how he almost became a Sonic again a few years later. With Sellers in hand, the Sonics then traded their first-round pick in 1990 for Golden State’s at 16 in the 1989 draft, adding to their own at 17.
And to Jerry Krause, I know he's not here with us and he can't defend himself, but to me, I had a personal connection because he tried to trade Scottie Pippen for me on draft night, so that really stuck out. There, they were swept by one of the best Lakers teams ever.
We’d keep Kemp, they’d keep Pippen.”. And what about the team that gets Pippen? The Bulls also gets younger with the pair of first-rounders and an impressive rookie in Person. Here are five potential deals that the Bulls could have gotten for Pippen. Jordan was then in his baseball-inspired first retirement, and the Bulls viewed getting Kemp, four years younger than Pippen, as a player to build a future around whether or not Jordan returned. The other parts of the deal didn’t yield much on paper, but intriguingly again involved Chicago – and in a roundabout way could be viewed as helping at least a little bit in the Sonics later landing two of their best-known players. It's safe to say it would have altered the history of the league in a major way. Pippen, the view was held by many, might need some time to adjust, having played in college at a lower level.
And to me, it's like, they just won two [straight] championships, going for their third, and you still want to dismantle the team?
Seattle-area basketball fans tuning in to the opening episodes of ESPN’s “The Last Dance” a week ago hoping for a much-welcomed sports diversion were instead dealt what might have seemed like an unnecessary and unexpected dagger to the heart.
While that's not a new story -- Jonathan Abrams wrote about it in his book, Boys Among Men, and McGrady has previously confirmed it on TV -- the documentary was a reminder for McGrady of how his career nearly went in a completely different direction. 3 and No. Good thing, as that pick ended up in the lottery, where the Sonics got the number two selection the following June and took a guard from Oregon State named Gary Payton.
Seattle, meanwhile, viewed Pippen as a potentially steadying force on a team whose – for lack of a better way of saying it – maturity issues had been viewed as leading to the early playoff ouster. Details surrounding this mysterious deal were scarce considering it was just intriguing speculation back then. 3 pick and Antoine Walker.
Scottie Pippen is undoubtedly the best sidekick in all of basketball. All of that would take weeks to try and analyze and sort through, and there are plenty of other subplots to think about as well. Had McKey not been available, the Sonics were reportedly going to take forward Horace Grant, who instead went to the Bulls at 10. At a time when trade rumors continued to follow Pippen, the Suns reportedly tried to acquire him in a bid to return to the Finals. Jordan and the Bulls probably don't win their sixth ring in '98, which impacts their legacies, but McGrady gets to learn from one of the greatest of all time.
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