(That's the name of the article.)
It’s told famously by his high school and college coaches, but truly defies explanation. The supermodel skinny kid who didn’t play much in high school and wasn’t even sure he wanted to play in college, even if he could. But his high school coach called in some favors just to get him a look at NAIA Central Arkansas. Pippen, maybe 135 pounds then and 6-1, couldn’t get a scholarship and wasn’t recruited by even a junior college. He became team manager and went to school on a Pell grant before a scholarship came open late in his freshman year and he got it in more a charitable move. He cleaned the locker room and handed out the towels. He said he enjoyed that because he could just hang out with the guys.
And now he’s going into the Basketball Hall of Fame. C’mon, you cannot even make that up.
There is no member of the Hall of Fame who was farther from the Hall of Fame as a college freshman than Scottie Pippen.
The entire article is here: http://www.nba.com/bulls/history/pip...th_100812.html
It’s told famously by his high school and college coaches, but truly defies explanation. The supermodel skinny kid who didn’t play much in high school and wasn’t even sure he wanted to play in college, even if he could. But his high school coach called in some favors just to get him a look at NAIA Central Arkansas. Pippen, maybe 135 pounds then and 6-1, couldn’t get a scholarship and wasn’t recruited by even a junior college. He became team manager and went to school on a Pell grant before a scholarship came open late in his freshman year and he got it in more a charitable move. He cleaned the locker room and handed out the towels. He said he enjoyed that because he could just hang out with the guys.
And now he’s going into the Basketball Hall of Fame. C’mon, you cannot even make that up.
There is no member of the Hall of Fame who was farther from the Hall of Fame as a college freshman than Scottie Pippen.
The entire article is here: http://www.nba.com/bulls/history/pip...th_100812.html
