People: Dec. 8, 1997

PIPPEN FLIPPIN'?

If Dennis Rodman represents the id and Michael Jordan symbolizes the superego, then is the third part of the Bulls' personality--the one that SCOTTIE PIPPEN stands for--the stupid? Pippen, whom Jordan has fought to keep on his team, wants to be traded. Long a hothead (remember how he refused to enter the last 1.8 sec. of a tied play-off game because the final play didn't give him the ball?), Pippen is now hinting that his foot injury, which has kept him out all year, isn't really that bad. Claiming he is "grossly underpaid," Pippen says he'd like to go...

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