Bill Walton believed Scottie Pippen's treatment of his former Chicago Bulls teammate Michael Jordan was "just not right."
Six-time NBA champ Scottie Pippen opened a can of worms ever since the MJ-centered documentary "The Last Dance" airing.
Just last month, he called his former on-court partner, and unofficially basketball's greatest ever, a horrible player saying he was too hard to play with.
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None of these sits well with Walton. He thought Pippen's volte-face concerning the legacy of MJ was remarkably disappointing.
"I'm shocked and dismayed, and those words are not strong enough to relate my feelings at the way that Scottie Pippen treats Michael Jordan," said the NBA 1977 MVP during an appearance at the Brandon "Scoop B" Robinson podcast.
Walton was in the show to promote his ESPN's "30 for 30: The Luckiest Guy in the World" documentary. The docu director asked Walton to relate his new project to "The Last Dance," which aired on Netflix and followed the quest for one last championship by the Chicago Bulls.
The NBA legend turned newscaster said he was one of the luckiest guys in the world for being able to witness the greatness of the Bulls dynasty, which for him, showed the ultimate group dynamics to success.
Pippen's bitterness on MJ and The Last Dance
Pippen expressed disappointment with how he was portrayed in the Netflix documentary saying he was nothing but a prop to make MJ look better.
And he blamed MJ for that.
"Each episode was the same: Michael on a pedestal, his teammates secondary, smaller, the message no different from when he referred to us back then as his 'supporting cast,'" he said in his memoir Unguarded.
"From one season to the next, we received little or no credit whenever we won, but the bulk of the criticism when we lost."
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