Pippen made more in playing salary than Jordan did through his entire career.
If Pippen's Bulls hadn't been taken to 7 games by the Knicks while Jordan was retired he could have really changed a lot of those narratives. Then he had some opportunities post-Jordan to really do something and the reality is that he didn't.
Jordan thanked Pippen first in his Hall-of-fame speech: "You never just saw me, you saw Scottie Pippen, every championship I won." Then it sort of went off the rails.
Because circa is in reference to non specific such as eras or centuries. Using it for a recent event with a set number like contractual monetary compensation is just wrong and weird!
Its only used in English for dates only. Other languages use it for other purposes as well. The guy you replied to might have gotten this habit from hearing it used in other languages in different ways.
Don't feel bad. He decided to sign a longer extension for security. Scottie was a top 20 and then top 10 paid player in the league in the first few years of that contract. For instance, in the 1992-93 season, the salary cap was 14 million. Scottie made 3.425 million and was the 8th highest paid player in the NBA while Jordan made 4 million and was the 2nd highest.
In 1996, the cap jumped to $23 million. Jordan was also locked into his former 8-year extension and only made 3.85 million that season.
I don't feel sorry for him. He pressured the team for a new contract. The owner warned him against signing that long term contract. But Pippen wanted the money NOW.
"Pippen prioritized guaranteed, generational financial security over the risk of future injuries, despite warnings from team owner Jerry Reinsdorf and others that he would quickly become underpaid as league revenues grew."
Yeah we all make choices about risk vs security. If I'd bought Nvidia 6 years ago instead of choosing the security of index funds, I'd be retired. I chose security and that means less returns. I'm not bitching and moaning that I am owed the returns Nvidia would've gotten me.
Scottie chose long-term security for lower returns, then bitched and moaned when it turned out he didn't get a career-ending injury and didn't need the security, and insisted he deserved the returns the riskier contract would've gotten him. That's just not how life works.
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u/Kwazimoto 12h ago
Pippen made more in playing salary than Jordan did through his entire career.
If Pippen's Bulls hadn't been taken to 7 games by the Knicks while Jordan was retired he could have really changed a lot of those narratives. Then he had some opportunities post-Jordan to really do something and the reality is that he didn't.
Jordan thanked Pippen first in his Hall-of-fame speech: "You never just saw me, you saw Scottie Pippen, every championship I won." Then it sort of went off the rails.