Scottie Pippen & Dennis Rodman: Our Bulls would have gone 50-0 during the lockout season | The

And again I just want to say for those people who think there is madness out there. I remember being there when I was 19 and 20 during many of those moments and thinking: this is the NBA and the truth is that it was never anything. So again, we'll get to that in a minute, but I want to talk a little bit about your integration into the Bulls, Michael Jordan, because we saw a clip earlier on the show with that and watching it again from when you were just a puppy. covering them, I used to tell people his teammates and his brothers on the court, but it took a lot of work to get there and I always think people think that today's leaders say, oh, LeBron James is tough on his teammates or whatever and I always say okay, but mom Michael Jordan punched Steve Kirk in the face during practice.

How demanding was MJ of you as a teammate? Not too much, okay, but I do it because he's my kaha, I know a lot, yeah, you know, man, Mike, it really has to be like that. spending a lot of time doing this ISM thing, yeah I think I was more like the loner of the group, but these guys had a special bond, they were together for six and seven years since before I got there and it was fun I see those two guys really interact with each other, I mean, they really play against each other in practice at home, playing cars or doing anything that has to do with physical tasks and when I see them in practice and in games, sometimes I feel. and I look and I'm looking at the break and the coffee, you know, there's people, they're very nice on the pitch and sometimes I

have

to do it with the kids at some point, look at these guys and I'm like the one that used to kick. his butt, you know, throw it on the ground, a lot of stuff like that, now I'm playing with these guys, so I praise them even more when I was with these guys, but I said those days they actually saved my life.

Scotty, I've done so many things in Chicago at times when I was doing my crazy things at home and had to come back and he made me refocus on the game at hand, but they did a lot of the things I've been to in Chicago, I They asked me to open the doors to me and their hearts, so in the city you also know what I believe. I think it was great for us because we realized that Dennis was eager to rejuvenate his career and it was important for us to be the championship team again, so we all needed and wanted the same thing in the end, but what really brought us as a team It was his leadership in his hard work, oh, things had to be figured out. between you and you know, I asked you how hard MJ was on you, but you were all hard on each other in different ways and you were tested with how much you

would

accept, but I didn't test him, but I didn't.

I don't think they realized I was doing that, so Dean is off the court as much as I am. We lived two different lives. You know, he was so professional. Someone

would

tell us like he just got back from Las Vegas, but my daughter was on TV. talking about having sex with him on social media right in our face quick was good I think I think the stars of the line he I think God brought us together for a reason and it's funny for Scott. I could say something like this before is that we never really talk about the court, the only time we really talk outside the essentials is like we went to a restaurant and we didn't realize this, but we formed a triangle in a restaurant, we interacted with each other. us and we had a choke in the neck that disappeared 24/7 in a restaurant, you know, but I guess I would never remember those days again, oh, that was good, this gets to how they ended well and look, you saw a little in the clip, if the management had not decided this.

It's Phil's last year, which sounds crazy every time I say it out loud, and that's why you guys decided, well, we don't want to do it without Phil. How much longer could the dynasty

have

lasted? I have no say, so I'm next. hell in this joint NBA scenario if it had been you, Phil, MJ and Dennis, how many more championships could you have won? I'd probably say at least two, okay, I'd say at least two. I would love to have been challenged. We got to a point where someone could beat us, the teams that were giving us the most problems.

Utah Jazz means more in the Finals, they were just as old as us, which gives me the feeling that we probably thought he was running a couple of three years older. in terms of teams we could beat on the west coast and there was also a

lockout

that allows you to rest your tired old bones, that's what makes me angry because that's my way of turning back time because we had intertwined 450 games. He had legs for 50 games, my God, you know, I think we knew from last

season

that that was the answer, no one really screwed him up, he's going to be screwed in the end and we just have to accept that I only know what your record is. he was at 98 that

season

, so I'm thinking what his record would have been in a

lockout

-shortened season, dad 15 Oh, probably 52 huh, I predicted that correctly thanks for watching ESPN on youtube for highlights and analysis, check out the ESPN app and for live streaming and premium content check out ESPN Plus