Club Shay Shay - Skip Bayless Part 2

Shannon Sharpe (0:00)

Thank you for coming back. Part two is underway.

You love the Bulls. Scottie. Scottie says that he's a better player than LeBron James.

Skip Bayless (0:10)

Yeah, it's just, it's sad because we would never even talk about Scottie Pippen if he hadn't been drafted by Jerry Krauss and paired up with Michael Jordan. That's the truth.

He's not a top 50, he's not a top 75 I covered the 98 Bulls in Chicago and I always did the Lone Ranger Tonto. He was no more than a Tonto to the Lone Ranger.

Shannon Sharpe (0:36)

Damn.

Skip Bayless (0:37)

Yeah.

Shannon Sharpe (0:39)

But he said, he said, what would you rather have? Would you rather have accolades of championships? I could maybe, you know what?

Skip Bayless (0:47)

Scottie asked that?

Shannon Sharpe (0:48)

I think that's what he asked.

Skip Bayless (0:50)

I don't know. He was a good defensive player. But yes, the classic moment in the Jordan-Scottie dynamic was Game 6 at Utah. I'm sitting there in the press row, front row. Remember, Michael steals the ball from Carl Malone in one corner.

Shannon Sharpe (1:06)

Yes.

Skip Bayless (1:06)

He dribbles the ball all the way up the floor. Clock is ticking down.

Brian Russell is on him and Scottie is over on the wing. I still have a picture of it. I don't keep memorabilia, but I still keep this picture because Scottie is over on the wing like this. I'm open. Jordan takes one look at him and like, no, I got this.

He got away with just a little subtle push off on Brian Russell. Everybody pushed off in those days. He goes up from just beyond the free throw line and as you remember, he held the pose. I got a picture of that and Scottie is over there like this. That's all you need to know about Scottie is Michael took one look and was like, nap.

Shannon Sharpe (1:44)

Maybe he would have an argument if he had won one of those finals MVPs. Maybe he won two of those finals MVPs. Maybe if he don't want an MVP.

Skip Bayless (1:53)

Scottie.

Shannon Sharpe (1:53)

Scottie.

Maybe we could have an argument in the debate. But I don't think as far as small forwards, you can't put him in front of LeBron, Jordan, excuse me, Larry Byrd, Kevin Durant. You can't put him in front of Dr. J.

Skip Bayless (2:07)

No. He was a really good defensive player.

Shannon Sharpe (2:10)

He was a great defender.

Skip Bayless (2:12)

And remember what happened when Michael was out for a while?

Shannon Sharpe (2:16)

They'll never forgive him for what he pulled that night.

Skip Bayless (2:18)

He wouldn't go back in.

Shannon Sharpe (2:18)

That he wouldn't go back into the game.

Skip Bayless (2:20)

Wouldn't go back in.

Shannon Sharpe (2:20)

People won't forget. They'll never forget that.

Skip Bayless (2:22)

No.

Shannon Sharpe (2:23)

And the guy that he didn't think should shoot the shot, not only did he shoot the shot, he made it.

Skip Bayless (2:28)

Kuko, she made it. Yes.

Shannon Sharpe (2:31)

There.

Skip Bayless (2:32)

That's Scottie Pippen. That's Scottie Pippen.

Shannon Sharpe (2:34)

Lakers off season. You like it?

Skip Bayless (2:38)

Are you still a Laker fan without LeBron?

Shannon Sharpe (2:42)

I hope Luca plays well. You know, I love AR. I've always been an AR fan.

Skip Bayless (2:46)

I am too.

Shannon Sharpe (2:46)

But I don't know if the Snowtime Lakers are going to be able to do anything, Skip.

Skip Bayless (2:50)

They are Snowtime. I give you that. Listen, I root for Austin Reeves just because he has become the greatest undrafted player in the history of the league. Go back and look at who's undrafted and tell me they measure up to what this guy can do.

Without Luka and LeBron early this last season, look at some of the numbers. He's scoring 40, man.

Shannon Sharpe (3:16)

Yeah. The shot that he hit against Minnesota. He won the game at the buzzer.

Skip Bayless (3:20)

My God. Where I'm saying, okay, is he worth the money? I do think he's worth the money. And for some reason, Luka took him under his wing. LeBron tried to for a while. And then I think AR is reading the tea leaves like, I think I better stick with the guy who's going to be here the longest.

So now they're buddies and it's kind of creepy, actually, how close they are, whatever. But at least Luka respects him because how can you not? Because he's got high IQ, man.

He's a good passer. He's not a Luka passer. He's definitely not a LeBron passer, but he's a good passer. And last year when they were healthy, which wasn't very much, those three in that back court, that's the highest basketball IQ in the history of basketball. To have those three together, but it's almost too much of a good thing. So somebody had to go, and obviously... LeBron being his age. Okay, it's just that they just wanted to go forward with Luka because they stole him, they felt like for Dallas. So here they go with AR. And you know, I like Walker Kessler enough. They don't have that. And I think Luka pushed hard for him because he's big. I know that, and he's pretty skilled.