{"id":1123516,"date":"2020-03-24T14:07:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1123516"},"modified":"2020-04-19T20:45:39","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T00:45:39","slug":"how-did-the-players-drafted-ahead-of-scottie-pippen-fare-in-the-nba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/how-did-the-players-drafted-ahead-of-scottie-pippen-fare-in-the-nba\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did the Players Drafted Ahead of Scottie Pippen Fare in the NBA?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Scottie Pippen was the fifth overall pick in the 1987 NBA draft<\/a> and made a decent career for himself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Chicago Bulls had specifically targeted Pippen in the draft but believed that he'd be gone by the time they made their selection at No. 8. Thus, they engineered a trade with the Seattle Supersonics. The Sonics chose Pippen with the fifth overall pick and traded him to Chicago for Olden Polynice, whom the Bulls selected with the eighth pick, and future draft picks. The rest, as they say, is history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Scottie Pippen went on to win six NBA titles with the Bulls and was a seven-time All-Star and a seven-time All-NBA selection. He won two Olympic gold medals and was named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time Team in 1997. It wasn't easy living in the shadow of Michael Jordan<\/a> but Pippen thrived in the role, becoming a great player in his own right. Pippen is a two-time Hall of Fame inductee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But how did those four players selected before Pippen in the '87 draft fare in the NBA?<\/p>\n\n\n\nDavid Robinson<\/h2>\n\n\n\n