Pippen was selected in 5th place in '87, who were the 4 ahead of the row? The champion is well deserved

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2024-05-27 20:38Posted in Henan

When it comes to Scottie Pippen, there is one word that may come to mind at first - "the second master of gold". How to say this word, it describes a very appropriate but one-sided denial of some of Scottie Pippen's self-ability, which appropriately means that Scottie Pippen did assist Michael Jordan to become the god of basketball and establish a two-time Bulls three-game dynasty, which can be called one of the best two leaders; One-sidedly, it is because Scottie Pippen is not just a player who can only play as a deputy, he can also lead the team to some results as the core of the team, but unfortunately there is no chance, and he is even strangled in the cradle.

It's a pity that Scottie Pippen is obviously capable, but he can only play deputy for one reason or another

In the 93-94 season, the year when Jordan announced his retirement due to the murder of his father, Scottie Pippen still led the Bulls to a 55-27 record with an average of 22 points, 8.7 rebounds, 5.6 assists and 2.9 steals per game. It can be said that as long as Scottie Pippen was paired with a second-in-command like Klay Thompson and Kevin Love, he could lead the Bulls to go further, and it was not a dream to lead the team to victory. Unfortunately, at the time, everyone only thought of him as a "golden lieutenant", not a leading player, and no one trusted him, not even Bulls championship coach Al Jackson.

The most obvious scene is that in the third game of the Eastern Conference semifinals with the Knicks in the 93-94 season, Phil Jackson directly ignored Pippen's petition at the last minute and decided that rookie Kukoc was responsible for shooting the shot. Even if the Bulls won in the end, it hurt Scottie Pippen's confidence as a core to a great extent, so much so that he felt like he was slumped in the core. Of course, this is not to say that Scottie Pippen has a bad career, as a player, even if he is just a golden deputy, he still won 6 NBA championships, 7 NBA All-Star and 10-time NBA All-Defensive Team and other honors, far more than most All-Star players, and even because of the great exposure he has gained next to the basketball god Michael Jordan, many people can't help but rummage through his resume.

Then it was discovered that Scottie Pippen was actually the No. 5 pick in 1987, and the order was decent, not as high as expected. This can't help but make people wonder who the four people in front of him were back then, and what achievements they have made in their careers, whether they are better than Pippen, a player who is fixed in the framework of "golden deputy". Today, the author will take you to take a closer look at who the four players in front of Scottie Pippen in the draft that year were and what their career achievements were.

No. 4 pick: Reggie Williams

Reggie Williams, drafted by the Clippers with the 4th pick in the first round in 1987, averaged 10.4 points, 3.4 rebounds and 1.7 assists per game in his career, and was a decent rotation player. Although Reggie Williams has had a glorious period in his career, many people may not have an impression of Reggie Williams, after all, his career was very short, he quietly retired in the 96-97 season, and changed 6 teams during the period, only in the Denver Nuggets team played a relatively bright stats, averaging 18.2 points, 5 rebounds and 1.8 steals per game. Except for the years when he was at his peak, it was difficult for him to average more than 10 points per game, so not only did he have no honors in his entire career, but also no masterpieces to circulate, and it was normal for people to be unimpressed after retirement.

3rd pick: Dennis Hopson

Dennis Hopson, who is a non-existent heavyweight, was selected by the Nets with the third pick in the first round in 1987, except for the first two years of his career, he averaged 15.8 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game in the bad team of the Nets to deceive the Bulls, so that they spent a lot of money to trade him over, and followed Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen with a championship ring in the 90-91 season with an average of 4.3 points and 1.8 rebounds per game, basically there is nothing worth saying. And unlike other contract fraudsters, he was swept away by the NBA at the end of his second contract in the '91-92 season, and he was not as smart as the likes of Chandler Parkinson and Ben Simmons.

2nd pick: Almon Gilliam

Almon Gilliam, selected by the Suns with the second pick in the first round in 1987, averaged 13.7 points and 6.9 rebounds per game in his career, and is considered a decent power forward player. In his 13-year NBA career, Almon Gilliam averaged 18.8 points and 8.8 rebounds per game in his peak season, and basically hovered around 12 points and 7 rebounds per game in other seasons.

No. 1: David Robinson

David Robinson, drafted by the Spurs with the first pick in the first round in 1987, averaged 21.1 points, 10.6 rebounds and 3 blocks per game in his career. This is amazing, as one of the "four centers", David Robinson has a more brilliant career than Scottie Pippen in the "Golden Deputy", even after being drafted because he still has to serve in the Navy for two years before entering the NBA league, he can still cut an average of 24.3 points, 12 rebounds and 3.9 blocks per game in his first year in the NBA, and then won the regular season MVP in the 94-95 season, 10 times selected to the NBA All-Star team, 4 times selected to the NBA All-Star team, Won 2 NBA championships, and even got a "quadruple-double" data. Although he did not lead the championship to the Spurs before Tim Duncan arrived, as the original leader of the Spurs, David Robinson helped the Spurs withstand the impact of Michael Jordan and other strongmen, and then waited for his successor Tim Duncan to win the cup with him and hand over the Spurs to him to carry forward, he is a superstar worthy of being called a legend.

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