Hall of Fame basketball player Scottie Pippen said in his memoir that scorekeepers incorrectly attributed statistics to Michael Jordan, often taking away from his own statistical totals.
The 58-year-old won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls alongside Jordan in the 1990s and was a threat on the offensive and defensive sides of the ball.
In his memoir, titled “Unguarded,” Pippen alluded to the idea that Jordan manipulated scorekeepers into wanting to doctor statistics in his favor.
“Michael was better at getting people to do whatever he wanted,” Pippin reportedly wrote in an excerpt. “I saw it over and over, from the first training camp in 1987 to the last victory rally in 1998. Here’s how it worked: Say I deflected the ball and tapped it over to him. I should get credit with the steal, right? Nope. More often than not, the steal went into his column on the stat sheet, and I could do nothing about it,” Pippen claimed, according to Bounding into Sports.
