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lol Pippen wasn't All Star level until that 1st championship season on the Bulls. MJ had no way to know how that was going to work out after losing back to back to the Pissed-ons. But he stuck it out and was the main reason his team finally got passed that Detroit team. Pippen developing into a better player was part of MJ's doing -Scottie flat out admits this without question, as do other Jordan teammates and media/coaches that spent loads of time with those teams. The fact that you don't seem to know any of this says quite a bit about bothering to take you serious in a discussion about this topic.
And no, Lebron did not face and defeat a back-to-back defending champion Piston team with 3 future Hall of Famers that was on its way to becoming a dynasty. Jordan was the alpha on a team that did that tho. Odd that you seem to need this pointed out to you as well if you mean to come across as credible in a discussion here.
Lebron has also never done any of this in the strongest conference in the NBA, Jordan did.
Yea, its interesting thinking back to those seasons when the Pistons beat the Bulls. I can remember it being so stressful for Pippen that he had migraine headaches and Jordan once famously commented something to the fact that Pippen needed to be a man or man up or he wasn't being man enough to handle the Pistons. Of course we all know that once they got by that team there were two three-peats in the cards.
Timestamped here showing Jordan and Pippen get beat up. One crazy moment is that at 5:06 Laimbeer elbows Pippen in the head, who falls to the court and then what happens? The ref drags Pippens body off the court at 5:20 while play continues!