Scottie Pippen is the greatest example in basketball history of what it means to be exactly what your team needs. Without Pippen's #33, there is no second three-peat, no dynasty mythology, and arguably no six championships at all.
Scottie Pippen is the greatest example in basketball history of what it means to be exactly what your team needs. Without Pippen's #33, there is no second three-peat, no dynasty mythology, and arguably no six championships at all.
Michael Jordan's #23 is the most famous number in basketball history. Six championships, six Finals MVPs, five regular-season MVPs, and a cultural transformation that turned the Chicago Bulls into the most recognized sports brand on earth.
Bob Love was the Chicago Bulls' first great offensive player — a jump-shooting artist who averaged 21 points a game and made three All-Star teams. But the story of why the Bulls retired his #10 has as much to do with what happened after basketball as during it.
Michael Jordan's #23 is the most famous number in basketball history. Six championships, six Finals MVPs, five regular-season MVPs, and a cultural transformation that turned the Chicago Bulls into the most recognized sports brand on earth.
Bob Love was the Chicago Bulls' first great offensive player — a jump-shooting artist who averaged 21 points a game and made three All-Star teams. But the story of why the Bulls retired his #10 has as much to do with what happened after basketball as during it.
Before Michael Jordan, before the championships, before the global phenomenon — there was Jerry Sloan. The toughest, most relentless player in Bulls history wore #4 for ten seasons and built the defensive identity that would one day win six titles.
Drazen Petrovic's #3 hangs in the Nets' rafters as a monument to the Mozart of Basketball — a Croatian pioneer who proved European players belonged in the NBA, then died at 28 just as he was becoming one of its finest.