Scottie Pippen

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Birth Name: Scottie Maurice Pippen
Birth Place: Hamburg, AR
Date of Birth / Zodiac Sign: 09/25/1965, Libra
Profession: Former NBA player; Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee; analyst

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Scottie Pippen Fast Facts:

Named to the NAIA All-America Team in his junior and senior years at Central Arkansas.
Taken fifth overall by the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1987 NBA draft, but was traded to the Chicago Bulls for Olden Polynice.
Sat out Game 7 of the 1990 Eastern Conference finals against the eventual NBA champion Detroit Pistons due to severe migraines.
Was selected for the U.S. National Team, dubbed the Dream Team, in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
Along with Michael Jordan, was a crucial part of the Bulls in their NBA title "threepeats" in the 1990s (1991-93; 1996-98).
Wrote Reach Higher, a children's book, in 1997.
His No. 33 jersey was retired by the Bulls in 2005.
Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010.
Reportedly has lost $120 million in career earnings through poor financial planning and bad investments.