Pippen, a hustler for every team. He's got everything a team wanted.

Pippen was a game changer everywhere he went

pippen best defensive small forward ever n my favorite player!!!

Scottie Maurice Pippen.... A player for the ages & one of the best defenders to ever play the game. He could change an entire series by his passing, ball-handling & overall team first mentality. We are lucky to have watched such a generational talent strut his stuff on the b/ball court.

Prime Pippen to me is the best point forward I ever seen till this day

I am reading posts about Pippens scoring ability. As a person who watched the bulls since there first championship I would say that Pippen's offensive game was more well rounded than that of today's players. He had the post game mid-range game and three pt shot. His game was not to be a scorer but to involve he entire team. All of his teammates said that it was Scottie who got everyone involved

What a player he was... Never seen Bryant so helpless. He couldn't do anything...

Scottie so ahead of his time. You see here the influence he had and Vince and T-Mac. That long armed- tight dribble mid range game. He was borderline unguardable based on the circumstamce

pippen was a beast n he torched kobe in the post damn

Guys this film doesn't lie. This shows how Pippen is better at breaking down defense because he scores from every spot and he is master at just about every area on offense : mid range shots, 3s, dunking, driving in, and post moves.

I was born in 97, huge NBA fan I never got the chance to see Scotty play but nobody told me he was this good 🔥🔥

Watching an interview of how he scottie would guard harden.. he said something about his 7foot winspan. this be a proof how he be pain in the a in defense.

Being from Chicago I remember being happy for Scottie but didn’t understand why the Bulls would dismantle the team. Scottie and Mike clearly had one more run in them

Had Pippen been 3 Yrs younger, The Rockets would've gotten that Chip. But that wear and tear on Scottie was starting to kick in.

Pippen was the best. Pure defender, great arms, legs quick. And Back when NBA still allowed D.

This is literally why no one could beat the Bulls. Can't have Pippen playing like this on a court with MJ on said court and have even a remote chance of beating them.

1:27 Scottie Pippen, wow

Pip played Jordan every day in practices enough said

Wow, after so many years...mad respect for Pip! Real basketball back in the days.

Pippen is most underrated super star. Everyone talks about offence, but Pippen can do very well in offence and DEFENCE! He can defend from 1 to 4. He is Tall, Fast and Strong with great all around skills! The real Super Star!

pippen one of my most favorite players of all time

scottie pippen one of the GOAT

This Rockets team was stacked, but had no chemistry. Aging stars falling out of their prime in Olajuwon, Barkley and Pippen.

It's nice to see Pippen taking command of the game, especially with so many people who say without Jordan, Pippen would be nobody.

The last yr pip can still play with his explosive movements ~ when pip is hot ~ he is unstoppable

Scottie Pippen 33 The Best 💪🏻🔥🔥🔥 My Favorite Players NBA 🏀

Anyone that Pippen played for is a contender; he is the only player that will fill the holes on any category as these stats shows.

pippen was real warrior

Pippen was amazing and on a different team as we saw the following season on Portland could still have a big impact on the game.

wow, really fun watching pippen crush Kobe. I remember watching game. one of few games in career where you will see Pippen being this aggressive offensively

Scottie Pippen was so underrated.. If Charles use to work hard in the off season where controlling his weight is concerned and so on this team could have keep more noise. Hakeem was already in his 15th season and had a knee injury so I excused him. I see why Pip went to the blazers the following season though.

Even though Pippen lost back to back years in the playoffs to the Lakers with different teams he still owned Kobe in those battles this guy is a legend!

Woowww Scottie Pippen is a great player¡¡¡

Why wasn't this called Pippen highlights? Lol

man he was so athletic for 33 y old, imagine that dude at 28

Those Rockets jersey 🔥🔥

I was so happy to have Scottie and it was unfortunate that Dream and Chuck were already past their prime. Rudy T and the System just didn't produce the results we as Houstonians wanted but it is what it is.

Pippen was killing Kobe

Watching Pippen vs Kobe was fun to watch pippen knew Kobe was the next man up! People forgot Pippen held it down for a good 2-3 years! If the bulls organization wasent so dumb they could have gotten 4 straight

I love watching both Scottie Pippen AND Kobe Bryant, you can do both you know. 8)

I was too young to realize it, but the rockets had barkley, pippen, and hakeem on one team. Yes it was later in their careers, but it still would have been fun to watch.

Look at Scottie Pippen owning Kobe Bryant. Loving it!

What a great lineup of legends. Pippen is my all time favorite.

4:57 no one in the nba had the balls to drive like that on shaq also in another video i seen scottie draw a charge foul on karl malone ... there is no one who can or would do these .. eye of a tiger i say !

4:36 Pippen totally owning Kobe

A past prime Pippen schooling Lakers!!

Scottie Pippen all around player !

Not to mention, Scottie should've been the true leader of that team. Rudy Tomjanovich's offense was centered around an aging Barkley and Olajuwon. Pippen had just barely left his prime (and slightly rejuvenated it during the 1999-2000 campaign with Portland) and was fresh off of having the best team in the league to play with. He knew what he was doing; sadly, Rudy T didn't. I mean, why else wouldn't you want out of Houston? Yes, Pippen had a beef with Chuck, but he HAD to have been mad that he wasn't as involved in the offense as he was in Chicago. Thankfully, at least for the 2000 season, Portland got him back there.

Glen Rice, SG shooting 62% from the field on the season is unheard of.

give me prime pippen over any over-hyped "super star"!!!!!

That was a veteran pippen playing against a stacked laker team. Imagine on his 91-96 days with jordan the damage they could've done with that laker team with sir charles playing as well. I don't know why nobody talks about how he schooled kobe on that series.

Tremendo juego S. Pippen. Lo admiro desde Dominican Republic.

Pippen was out there taking Kobe to school! Overall he was out there putting in work! 🔥🔥🔥

RIP Kobe....

This was a 33 Year old pippen coming off back surgery in June of 1998 and past his prime he was really good this game

Pippen was unstoppable this game

I love the 90's defense. It was a man's game.

Koby cant guard pippen

Sick of people sleeping on Pip. Game was real nice !!!

This team should’ve gone a lot farther that year. Pippen should’ve been the focal point for the offense. You can see the championship intensity in him

Kobe had to play the 3 against real small forwards. He had a tough 3 first years. That's maybe why he was such a tough player.

pippen eating kobe lol kobe doing NOTHING..people keep forgetting who pippen was!

All around great Scottie Pippen!!

If only the Rockets had a 93 Chuck with a 95 Olajuwon to go with Pip, that team would have been scary.

This houston team would beat today's all star nba team 4 games in a raw with 20 points at least,every game

At the end where Barkley is talking to Shaq, he is asking him if would he want to stay over at Barkley's house, since the Lakers checked out of their hotel rooms prior to game 3. LOL

Lot of Hall of famers , Pippen best defensive SF ever

Pippen was on fire. I remember this game. Clearlly destryed the Lakers.

SCOTTIE PIPPEN💪💪💪💪

the only game pippen showed up smh..lakers had no business winning this SERIES

Watching this I forgot all about this game.. My favorite player of all time Scottie Pippen

Pippen has always been in my top 3 SF of all time

lynchie137 Looking back at this video, it's safe to say that Scottie Pippen left the Chicago Bulls as a free agent at the end of '97-'98, and signed a 5-year, $67.2 million contract with the Bulls, with the understand that he would be dealt to the Houston Rockets before '98-'99 where he teamed up with Hakeem Olajuwon and Charles Barkley, both of them NBA legends in their own rights. Because of his move to Houston, many NBA fans were expecting Scottie Pippen to evolve into a superstar rather than the complementary player that he always was, now that he was out of Michael Jordan's shadow. But Pippen had too much wear and tear on his body by '98-'99, probably because he had too many deep playoff runs, plus he was a member of the world-famous 1992 Dream Team lineup and the Dream Team III roster in 1996. During his all-too-brief time in Houston, Pippen somehow managed to play in all 50 games ('98-'99 NBA Lockout) averaging 14.5 points per game, 6.5 rebounds per game, 5.9 assists per game, 2.0 steals per game and 0.7 blocks per game,... ,...all while averaging 40 minutes per game, which is a pretty impressive statistical output for someone who had too much wear and tear, but at the same time, 40 minutes per game looks WAY too dangerous for Pippen, even if he was slightly younger than Olajuwon and Barkley. Pippen playing 40+ minutes with Houston was probably because Rudy T didn't even trust the likes of Rodrick Rhodes, Sam Mack and even longtime NBA veteran Eddie Johnson who had been in the NBA since 1981-82. Also, Scottie Pippen was probably misused in the Rockets' decidedly slow, halfcourt game; miscast as a generic perimeter shooter. Pippen's strengths on offense were ball-handling, dive cuts off the ball, score on slashing, pull-up 3 and post-game, but never force him to be a Robert Horry type spot-up shooter. And on top of all that, Rudy Tomjanovich (Houston's head coach at the time) was a player's coach who already had Olajuwon and Barkley as Rudy T's main go to guys on offense, rendering Pippen to the 3rd Man for the Rockets, and only a somewhat viable go-to-option on offense when Olajuwon and/or Barkley are in foul trouble. Safe to say, many Houstonians blame Scottie Pippen because they think Pip could've won his seventh individual NBA Championship in '98-'99 with Houston, but instead (at least in the mindsets of Houston fans) he chose to bleed money from Rockets' management. But Pippen deserved to be paid $67.2 million as compensation for him being underpaid while with Chicago from '87-'88 to '97-'98, and so his role on all six of the Chicago Bulls' NBA Championship squads proves that Pippen earned his big payday with Houston that he couldn't even get with Chicago during his prime.

Scottie is the most underrated player of all time.....

This was a very young Kobe though vs a seasoned very and multiple time champion who played most of his career alongside Jordan in Pippen. AND this was a desperate elimination game for Houston. They ended up losing the series in the next game 3-1. And it's not like Pippen schooled Kobe the whole series. Their stats were actually very similar for Kobe to be such a young player.

scottie&mj vs shaq&kobe would have been amazing to watch match up every year if they were all roughly the same age!!

Pippen was eating Kobe up.

and thats Y PIPPEN the best small forward ever

Crazy thought what I see in Pippen I see in TMac. The way the shot and they dunk

Wow amazing performance by Pippen.. Im surprised houston didn’t win championship that year

Man i really wish scottie had stuck around in huston and barkley was healthy

It makes you wonder if pippen could’ve gone to another team after the first 3peat and been the number one guy. He definitely sacrificed his own numbers to help Michael. Of course without Michael no rings for Scottie but you gotta say no pippen means no rings for Michael as well.

In the possession starting at 1:20, you can really see the characteristics that made Pippen such a great player.

The problem with The Rockets was that they never had Pippen running the point enough! I mean having both Barkley, but especially Olajuwon as your other key players also keeping opposing team in two minds....You'd have to say The Rockets really missed out on a great, but more than realistic opportunity on winning a Championship that season!!!!

I miss those Rocket Jerseys, especially the blue ones!

How that Houston team with all that talent didn't win a title is beyond me.

Amazing & nostalgic commentary 🔥🔥

Magic, jordan, lebron, pippen and Abdull-jabar

If this rockets team were in their prime I don't think anyone would beat them. Not even LeBron's Miami or GSW..

Also: GREAT commentary from Kevin Harlan and Doc Rivers. I marked out at "The spin and the jam! Ooh, that was nasty!!" Especially since Harlan had that tenacity and passion announcing Timberwolves games when they had Kevin Garnett.

Pippen didn't like to be the number 3 behind Olajuwon, Barkley... The Rockets were down 0-2, Pippen said "give me the ball, i'm going to show you, why i won 6 Rings..."

Pippen without mj.A great run for mvp.1 of 3 people to lead all stats.94 all star mvp.and only 2 more loses without mike.Got to the playoffs.cheated by the refs in game 5 to the knicks.Sounds like a guy who can hold his own.all he needed was some help.but i dont see how people could say he's not a player who could hold his own.

Scottie Pippen and Glen Rice were not happy with their roles with their teams in this clip. Rice won a championship with the Lakers and still wanted out.

Scottie was one of the best all around players of all time

Scottie Pippen is the definition of relentless tenacity! Simply put..... I want it more than you!

I know the rockets has Barkley and Hakeem in the post but I don't know why rudy t waited until the 3rd game of the series to go. Pippen in the post against Kobe clearly kobe couldn't handle him in the post.

Man i love Kobe..but a pippen on his prime will slow him down big time

Pippen's arms never looked so dang looong on defense before this video. Awesome!! #96BullsForever

Barkley played great this game too it would have been greater if Barkley’s plays were together especially Barkley’s one on one defenses againt Shaq was amazing

I remember prime Penny, Barkley can get thorough pippen's defense. Prime Kobe? Well...