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Game state source: whynba · Retrieved Oct 9, 6:37 pm EDTNBA legend. Named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Biography, honors and career statistics below.
Scottie Pippen
Career at a glance
Scottie Pippen played 17 NBA regular seasons between 1987 and 2004, appearing in 1,178 games and averaging 16.1 points, 6.4 rebounds and 5.2 assists per game. He played for 3 teams: Chicago (12 seasons between 1987 and 2004, 856 games), Houston (1998–99, 50 games), Portland (1999–03, 272 games). His best scoring season was 1993–94 with Chicago: 22.0 points per game over 72 games.
He rebounded best in 1993–94 at 8.7 per game. The season table marks him as the league leader in steals once. Championship seasons: 1990–91 (Chicago), 1991–92 (Chicago), 1992–93 (Chicago), 1995–96 (Chicago), 1996–97 (Chicago), 1997–98 (Chicago).
In the playoffs he appeared in 16 postseason runs (208 games, 17.5 points per game). Multiplying each season’s games by its scoring average gives roughly 18,900 regular-season points (an estimate from per-game figures, not an official total).
whynba analysis of the season-by-season statistics below (Wikipedia revision, CC BY-SA 4.0). Totals are estimates from per-game averages.
About Scottie Pippen
Scotty Maurice Pippen Sr. (born September 25, 1965), commonly known as Scottie Pippen, is an American former professional basketball player who played 17 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), winning six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls. Considered one of the greatest small forwards of all time, Pippen played an important role in transforming the Bulls into a championship team and popularizing the NBA around the world during the 1990s.
Pippen was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team eight consecutive times and the All-NBA First Team three times. He was a seven-time NBA All-Star and was the NBA All-Star Game MVP in 1994. He was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History during the 1996–97 season, and is one of five players to have his jersey retired by the Chicago Bulls (the others being Jerry Sloan, Bob Love, Michael Jordan, and Derrick Rose). He played a main role on both the 1992 Chicago Bulls Championship team and the 1996 Chicago Bulls Championship team, which were selected as two of the Top 10 Teams in NBA History. His biography on the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame's website states that "the multidimensional Pippen ran the court like a point guard, attacked the boards like a power forward, and swished the nets like a shooting guard." During his 17-year career, he played 12 seasons with the Bulls, one with the Houston Rockets and four with the Portland Trail Blazers, making the postseason 16 consecutive times. In October 2021, Pippen was again honored as one of the league's greatest players of all time by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.
Pippen is one of the only two NBA players to have won an NBA title and Olympic gold medal in the same year twice (the other one is Jrue Holiday), having done so in both 1992 and 1996. He was a part of the 1992 U.S. Olympic "Dream Team" which beat its opponents by an average of 44 points. He was also a key figure in the 1996 Olympic team, alongside former "Dream Team" members Karl Malone, John Stockton, Charles Barkley, and David Robinson, as well as newer faces such as Shaquille O'Neal, Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway and Grant Hill. He wore the number 8 during both years.
- Born
- September 25, 1965 (age 61) Hamburg, Arkansas, U.S.
- Listed height
- 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
- Listed weight
- 228 lb (103 kg)
- Position
- Small forward
- High school
- Hamburg (Hamburg, Arkansas)
- College
- Central Arkansas (1983–1987)
- NBA draft
- 1987: 1st round, 5th overall pick
- Playing career
- 1987–2004, 2008
Career highlights and awards
- 6× NBA champion (1991–1993, 1996–1998)
- 7× NBA All-Star (1990, 1992–1997)
- NBA All-Star Game MVP (1994)
- 3× All-NBA First Team (1994–1996)
- 2× All-NBA Second Team (1992, 1997)
- 2× All-NBA Third Team (1993, 1998)
- 8× NBA All-Defensive First Team (1992–1999)
- 2× NBA All-Defensive Second Team (1991, 2000)
- NBA steals leader (1995)
- NBA anniversary team (50th, 75th)
- No. 33 retired by Chicago Bulls
- USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year (1996)
- 2× Consensus NAIA All-American (1986, 1987)
- No. 33 retired by Central Arkansas Bears
Career statistics
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987–88 | Chicago | 79 | 0 | 20.9 | .463 | .174 | .576 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 1.2 | .7 | 7.9 |
| 1988–89 | Chicago | 73 | 56 | 33.1 | .476 | .273 | .668 | 6.1 | 3.5 | 1.9 | .8 | 14.4 |
| 1989–90 | Chicago | 82 | 82 | 38.4 | .489 | .250 | .675 | 6.7 | 5.4 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 16.5 |
| 1990–91† | Chicago | 82 | 82 | 36.8 | .520 | .309 | .706 | 7.3 | 6.2 | 2.4 | 1.1 | 17.8 |
| 1991–92† | Chicago | 82 | 82 | 38.6 | .506 | .200 | .760 | 7.7 | 7.0 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 21.0 |
| 1992–93† | Chicago | 81 | 81 | 38.6 | .473 | .237 | .663 | 7.7 | 6.3 | 2.1 | .9 | 18.6 |
| 1993–94 | Chicago | 72 | 72 | 38.3 | .491 | .320 | .660 | 8.7 | 5.6 | 2.9 | .8 | 22.0 |
| 1994–95 | Chicago | 79 | 79 | 38.2 | .480 | .345 | .716 | 8.1 | 5.2 | 2.9* | 1.1 | 21.4 |
| 1995–96† | Chicago | 77 | 77 | 36.7 | .463 | .374 | .679 | 6.4 | 5.9 | 1.7 | .7 | 19.4 |
| 1996–97† | Chicago | 82 | 82* | 37.7 | .474 | .368 | .701 | 6.5 | 5.7 | 1.9 | .6 | 20.2 |
| 1997–98† | Chicago | 44 | 44 | 37.5 | .447 | .318 | .777 | 5.2 | 5.8 | 1.8 | 1.0 | 19.1 |
| 1998–99 | Houston | 50* | 50* | 40.2 | .432 | .340 | .721 | 6.5 | 5.9 | 2.0 | .7 | 14.5 |
| 1999–00 | Portland | 82 | 82* | 33.5 | .451 | .327 | .717 | 6.3 | 5.0 | 1.4 | .5 | 12.5 |
| 2000–01 | Portland | 64 | 60 | 33.3 | .451 | .344 | .739 | 5.2 | 4.6 | 1.5 | .6 | 11.3 |
| 2001–02 | Portland | 62 | 60 | 32.2 | .411 | .305 | .774 | 5.2 | 5.9 | 1.6 | .6 | 10.6 |
| 2002–03 | Portland | 64 | 58 | 29.9 | .444 | .286 | .818 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 1.6 | .4 | 10.8 |
| 2003–04 | Chicago | 23 | 6 | 17.9 | .379 | .271 | .630 | 3.0 | 2.2 | .9 | .4 | 5.9 |
| Career | 1,178 | 1,053 | 34.9 | .473 | .326 | .704 | 6.4 | 5.2 | 2.0 | .8 | 16.1 | |
| All-Star | 7 | 6 | 24.7 | .442 | .318 | .625 | 5.6 | 2.4 | 2.4 | .9 | 12.1 |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | Chicago | 10 | 6 | 29.4 | .465 | .500 | .714 | 5.2 | 2.4 | .8 | .8 | 10.0 |
| 1989 | Chicago | 17 | 17 | 36.4 | .462 | .393 | .640 | 7.6 | 3.9 | 1.4 | .9 | 13.1 |
| 1990 | Chicago | 15 | 14 | 40.8 | .495 | .323 | .710 | 7.2 | 5.5 | 2.1 | 1.3 | 19.3 |
| 1991† | Chicago | 17 | 17 | 41.4 | .504 | .235 | .792 | 8.9 | 5.8 | 2.5 | 1.1 | 21.6 |
| 1992† | Chicago | 22 | 22 | 40.9 | .468 | .250 | .761 | 8.8 | 6.7 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 19.5 |
| 1993† | Chicago | 19 | 19 | 41.5 | .465 | .176 | .638 | 6.9 | 5.6 | 2.2 | .7 | 20.1 |
| 1994 | Chicago | 10 | 10 | 38.4 | .434 | .267 | .885 | 8.3 | 4.6 | 2.4 | .7 | 22.8 |
| 1995 | Chicago | 10 | 10 | 39.6 | .443 | .368 | .676 | 8.6 | 5.8 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 17.8 |
| 1996† | Chicago | 18 | 18 | 41.2 | .390 | .286 | .638 | 8.5 | 5.9 | 2.6 | .9 | 16.9 |
| 1997† | Chicago | 19 | 19 | 39.6 | .417 | .345 | .791 | 6.8 | 3.8 | 1.5 | .9 | 19.2 |
| 1998† | Chicago | 21 | 21 | 39.8 | .415 | .228 | .679 | 7.1 | 5.2 | 2.1 | 1.0 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | Houston | 4 | 4 | 43.0 | .329 | .273 | .808 | 11.8 | 5.5 | 1.8 | .8 | 18.3 |
| 2000 | Portland | 16 | 16 | 38.4 | .419 | .300 | .743 | 7.1 | 4.3 | 2.0 | .4 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | Portland | 3 | 3 | 39.0 | .421 | .176 | .667 | 5.7 | 2.3 | 2.7 | .7 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | Portland | 3 | 3 | 33.0 | .409 | .545 | .875 | 9.3 | 5.7 | 1.3 | .7 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | Portland | 4 | 1 | 18.8 | .409 | .333 | 1.000 | 2.8 | 3.3 | .0 | .0 | 5.8 |
| Career | 208 | 200 | 39.0 | .444 | .303 | .724 | 7.6 | 5.0 | 1.9 | .9 | 17.5 |
| Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983–84 | Central Arkansas | 20 | 1 | — | .456 | — | .684 | 3.0 | .7 | .4 | .4 | 4.3 |
| 1984–85 | Central Arkansas | 19 | 19 | — | .564 | — | .676 | 9.2 | 1.6 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 18.5 |
| 1985–86 | Central Arkansas | 29 | 29 | — | .556 | — | .686 | 9.2 | 3.5 | 2.3 | .6 | 19.8 |
| 1986–87 | Central Arkansas | 25 | 25 | — | .592 | .575 | .719 | 10.0 | 4.3 | 3.1 | 1.4 | 23.6 |
Per-game averages. † won an NBA championship · * led the league · ‡ NBA record (as marked).
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- Height
- 6′ 8″
- Weight
- 228 lb
- Position
- Small forward
- Jersey
- Not listed
- Country
- USA
- School / last affiliation
- Not listed
- Draft year
- 1987
- Draft pick
- Round 1 · Pick 5
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