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Basketball fans wondering if MICHAEL JORDAN will retire this year should note that SCOTTIE PIPPEN certainly seems ready to move on. Pippen and a longtime friend from Arkansas, RON WATSON, are throwing a party--dubbed "The Last Dance"--at the Crystal Garden on Chicago's Navy Pier on June 17, the night of what would be the seventh game of the NBA finals. "It's a celebration party for Scottie and his friends," says restaurateur PHIL STEFANI, who is catering the event. Shirts and hats have already been printed, and 500 tickets for the event went on sale...
...until Scottie Pippen arrived in Chicago did the Bulls post a winning record in the Jordan era. And even with two All-Stars, the Bulls were not able to win it all until they acquired all the right pieces to the puzzle...
...PIPPEN FLIPPIN...
...Dennis Rodman represents the id and Michael Jordan symbolizes the superego, then is the third part of the Bulls' personality--the one that SCOTTIE PIPPEN stands for--the stupid? Pippen, whom Jordan has fought to keep on his team, wants to be traded. Long a hothead (remember how he refused to enter the last 1.8 sec. of a tied play-off game because the final play didn't give him the ball?), Pippen is now hinting that his foot injury, which has kept him out all year, isn't really that bad. Claiming he is "grossly underpaid," Pippen says...
...Pippen, however, may be tough to deal while he's still recovering from October foot surgery, especially to title contenders like the Suns and Lakers, who have little incentive to risk team chemistry on an aging, limping, occasionally troublesome sidekick. Then again, without him the Bulls (8-5) are struggling and needed two overtimes to beat the Clippers...