90s Hoops With Scottie Pippen and Charles Oakley | The Players' Tribune 

Those you callin Pippen a bum don’t know shit about basketball. The man could guard damn near all 5 positions. Guarded the best player on every team. Even carried the bulls to the ECF when mike retired the 1st time. 9 time all-star, several time all defensive player. Can get a bucket whenever he needed. Ran point. Film don’t lie.

After all these years Pip still got it out for Isiah, and Isiah still hate Pip and MJ. That Pistons Bulls rivalry was DEEP. Lol

I seriously think I’m in love with Scottie 😂 he is so charismatic and such a legend. Forever in my top 5.

We need a Bulls Pistons Open Court. Make it happen.

I respect that Scottie giving AD his props, alot of people don't realize Adrian Dantly was a beast!!!

I love the old school guys. Back when basketball was grown man business. Oak was/is a real dude. Pip still salty at Isiah after all these years. Real basketball and real rivalries.

I really need a Delorean to go back and live in the 90s for 2 reasons. Music.... And the NBA ... It's just not the same anymore.

Where’s part 2,3,4 and 5? Could watch this kind of content all day long.

I will forever be a True Appreciator of the Greatness of Scotty Pippin. He forever is humble and gives credit where credit is due but we as a Society never give HIM his due!! I will forever have PIp at my 3 spot regardless of the era. At his prime there is no better small forward on both sides of the ball! His defense was amazing. Night in and night out he defended the best player on the other team. 1-5 and still got his! He is the originator of the point forward that everyone is looking for since. Pip you are a legend man!

I love Oak man...he’s like your og uncle /salute

Man during the Isiah question Scottie tried to smile it off at first but he was as serious as a heart attack after. Watch Pipp’s face after oak says “i cant trust him” 18:00 just a stone cold glaze

Huge Jordan fan loved watching Charles Oakley and Ewing Knicks. Scotties cool too. Miss that 90's competitive era.

Oakley laughing at Scottie talking shit about Zeek was hilarious.

Basketball is just crazy, 6’ 4” is considered SHORT!!! Crazy!

Glad they brought up Moses, RIP Moses.

That Karl Malone answer was hilarious 😂🤣

Long live oak and pip..two of the best player in the nba on and off the court godbless u both..

That Kemp poster behind them is the best part.

I can watch bulls and knicks of the 90s all day long. Great players on both sides.

My favorite player of all time Scottie Pippen, was all smiles til the topic of Isaiah Thomas (the fly) came up🤣🤣

rest in peace Anthony Mason, we miss you

That smile dropped smooth off Pip face the second he asked about zeke. Lol love Pip. #33 #TeamPippen

I miss this type of toughness in the nba

Who else besides me gonna go watch bulls vs knicks from the 90s???!!?

Everyone calls Giannis the freak, but the original freak was Pippen who at 6'7" had a wing span of a 7 footer with long arms he was able to get many steals as well as crucial blocks, and big rebounds whenever the Bulls needed him to play big inside. Many people like to compare the Bulls of yesterday with the Warriors of today and all I have to say on that is DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS!!! If the Bulls where playing by todays rules with the touchy fouls and no hand checking or physical play the Dubbs would win no doubt, but if the Dubbs where playing in the 90's era rules with the physical play there's no doubt the Bulls would dominate the Warriors!!! First off they would put Pippen on Curry, Curry is great but he wouldn't be so successful with a 6'7" Pippen with the wing span of a 7 footer to either block his outside shoot or disrupt(in Scottie's prime he could guard all positions even Curry, check out his defense on Magic Johnson in the '91 Finals that was crucial in the Bulls going on to win their 1st NBA championship), then they would assign Rodman the boards as well as neutralizing Draymond Green, and that would leave either Klay or A.I. to guard Jordan, good luck with that!!!

90s NBA man it was classic

Thank God I grew up in this era

That’s how you know the rivalries back then were real! After all these years, Pip still don’t like IT...lmao! The best era in NBA!

Man, Oak keeps looking right ahead the whole time when he's talking, never makes eye contact. Like he's driving a car and got Pippen and Rapaport in the back seat.

YES I need both sides of the ball!! Pippen guards all positions doesn't take plays off and can do everything I need. Score, pass, defend, HIT FREETHROWS, etc..

LOVE the reaction when Mike first mentioned Nique's name! Genuine excitement and respect when they said "OH"! LOL When Stern first took over the NBA HE KNEW that the NBA was the PERFECT TEAM SPORT to really market individuals. So the league was SMART and knew they had 6-8 Rockstar type players in the league. Guys who could easily get the casual fan on board because of their charisma and style of play. Once Stern's plan unfolded, Nique DAMN SURE was one of those guys! Along with MJ, Magic, Bird, Isiah, and Barkley. While Kareem and Doc were rock stars of course, BUT were on their way out of the league. That's HOW MUCH of a superstar Nique was back in the day. Add to the fact he was seen all over the country on TBS, no doubt he was the King of the South hoops wise in terms of popularity! I'm glad Pip pointed out that Nique has become underrated as time has gone on!

That was awesome. Charles was selling every one down the river. Scottie absolutely trashed Isiah. Lol. I love it.

two players from the golden area of nba. now i can't even watch it.

Two of my favorite players off all time. Great interview.

Rap you are too funny man. We need more of these and they need to be longer. At least make them 45 min long this was great!!!! So many good memories. Basketball was so much better then and it will never be the same again.

Best Era ever real NBA

Oak still has Scottie shook

I always liked and respected all 3 of those guys on that stage ✌

Being from chi-town, I'll never forget 90s Basketball. Best Basketball you'll ever see weather it's the Bulls, Knicks, Pistons, Rockets ex.. best era by far.

DANG OAK!!! Straight called riley out!

Scottie Pippen love his game don't know him but he seems like a real one , Charles Oakley his game was tuff an hard much respect to both of them

LOVE the reaction Oak and Pip gave when Nique's name came up! The initial OHHH said a lot right there. While Pip was giving Nique his props, I dug Oak just shaking his head smiling. Even though Nique didn't get his just due accolades (50 greatest, wasn't 1st ballot HOF, etc.) ALL the players past and present give him props. If u factor his mentality AND freak athletic ability, probably the most physically dominant scoring machine the SF position EVER SAW! Of course Doc is the godfather. And Lebron in general OVERALL is the most physically dominant. BUT Nique's MENTALITY like Pip said to attack scoring the rock AND his freak athletic ability made him special! My favorite player of all time!!! Show less

This was awesome....I'm like a kid at a candy store

I love Oak and Pipp! 2 legends. Those bulls vs knicks series in the 90s... just wow

More of this. The key is to get guys that will keep it 💯 no filters.

The best defender of all time and the best help defender of all time.

I knew Pip would name Gary Payton at 14:20 as a motor mouth. I totally called it, lmao!

Now this was when basketball was a game and not a 3 point contest...

Great interview. Some hilarious parts. Loved 90's basketball.

Guys Scotty is not the only one that don't like Isiah. Man I just realised there's a lotta guys that don't like him. Either way great player but he's not liked by many NBA basketball players. Forget the fans. Damn Oak said it too. Didn't even know he felt that way

Great Interview! Oakl was a Beast...absolutely loved him as a Basketball WARRIOR as well as PIP WHOM happened to be a BAD MAN!!!! MICHAEL RAPPAPORT A GREAT MAN...SO MUCH FUN!!! GOD BLESS YOU GUYS!!! PIP....WHAT A GREAT PLAYER!!!!

Wow it was just getting good with the Isiah stuff too. Way too short!

"He (Thomas) is a snake!" hahahaha

Scottie need to run that fade with Isiah bring Jordan and Laimbeer just in case somebody tries to jump in.

This was beautiful...many thanks for putting a smile on my face!

Wow, that's some raw stuff! Love it! MORE PLEASE!!

Scottie legit stopped smiling when he heard the name Isiah Thomas lol

You should do more of these. Solid sit down for Rapaport 🕶

the best youtube video ever. Thank you for making it.

More of these videos please. 80's and 90's basketball, the best era EVER!!

2 of the greats Scottie Pippen hands down one of the greatest 2 way players of all time. Oakley was a get right to the point player no games and that is what is missing from today's game.

Scottie has the Sylvester Stallone vibe.

This is the best video on RU-vid..amazing stuff!

2 true OG's of the game. great interview

I love how Michael gets to do these interviews.....it's like a little kid talking to his favorite super heroes

Pippen, for one season, was as good as MJ. I can't remember the exact year, but I remember thinking that he was as good as the GOAT.

This is a great Interview!

Michael Rapports swag is so 90s.

this was sooooo good wow

KENDRICK PERKINS AND CHARLES OAKLEY SHOW, PUT IT TOGETHER.

Big-big thanks for THE SUBS! Great stuff overall!

Nice video man... thanks for the UPLOAD 🤙

First off, I absolutely loved this!!! Secondly, it's way too short....Thirdly, though I loved the Isiah bashing, I wish Mike would've asked Oak about Barkley!!!! LMAO!!! I hope there's more of these with other players from the 90's to come.

There's NO content like this on youtube. Pro, expro atheletes being REAL, thank you!!

Classics Bulls and Knicks, Bulls and Pistons. Very hard Basketball.

This was amazing!

This was back when real men played basketball.

Lmao. That damn Oak a fool. It's been 25-30 years and he still mad.

Pips body language was fucking gold when I.T was mentioned........

Huge fan of Scottie 🙌🏼

As a Bulls fan I love the Knicks rivary it was something special! I was rooting for them vs Rockets and I'm from Texas I really cried when they lost game 6&7 cuz Jordan retired and Knicks couldn't beat the bulls

Great VIdeo... but who’s running this shit? Pippens about to get deep into Zeek and you just cut him short and end things?! WTF?!!

I wish it was like 2 hours long 😫 the players from that era are men compared to my era now.even their voices.oak and Mj resemble each other a lot and I can’t tell their voices apart.something must have been in the water back then

Two bulls greats and legends..

When basketball was muh fkn basketball, fo real

Waaay too short guys!! Yall gotta do better!!

one the best interview i seen in a while

True legends

This was good, very good. I feel like we need to do a series....say a series about 5-7 segments long, 1st segment is someone like Ernie Johnson mediating the conversation of questions, about an hour long, first hour long segment is Dennis Rodman and Alonzo Mourning, second is Reggie Miller and John Starks, third is Larry Bird and Bill Laimbeer, fourth is Scottie Pippen and Isaiah Thomas, fifth is 3 members of the Detroit Pistons Ben Wallace, Rasheed Wallace, Rip Hamilton and 3 members of the Indiana Pacers Ron Artest, Stephen Jackson, Jermaine O'Neal and everyone not needing to be polite or hold back talk about why they hate another to there face, and answer some questions the fans wanna know....this would win an award and be an ultra viewed segment.

18:40 Pippen with no regard for Isiah Thomas life 😂😂

Who remembers Rod Strickland was a great playmaker like 15 assists a game in his prime. 90s was the best era i've ever seen. Just look at Rod Strickland higlights, and nobody remembers him. And Pippens dunk, man MJ and PIP dunked on everybody, and Shawn Kemp had the best dunks i have ever seen.

I love both of these players!!

Lebron wish he could play defense like Scotty Pippen.

This is what the game is missing today is the competitiveness and the aggressiveness that these guys showed on the court because night in and out you had to bring it or get rolled on now it’s about your feelings and participation and that’s bull****.Learn the real game of basketball by watching these guys from the 90’s era (which was my years of actually playing and competing)

I wish I could like this videos a million times

We need more of this!!! Please get more legends like these guys

Scottie’s reaction at “Isiah Thomas”. Love it.

Glad I was able to fight through the initial cringe from the title and watch. Much better than what I was expecting. This might be the first time I've ever seen Scottie Pippen give insights that were actually interesting. It's funny that I used to absolutely DESPISE Scottie Pippen. Hated him with fucking a passion. But knowing what I know about him now, I see a lot of that was based on misunderstanding and I have a lot more respect for him.

Scotties one of the coolest dudes out there, him and Oak!

What a great video.