"Start of a dynasty" — Scottie Pippen expounds on shooting documentary on Bulls' title season that derailed Lakers' dynasty

Hall of Famer and Chicago Bulls legend Scottie Pippen announced that he's working on a documentary about the 1991 Chicago Bulls championship team. The championship win saw a 27-year-old Michael Jordan and a 25-year-old Scottie Pippen capture their first of six titles together while ending the Showtime era in LA.

After announcing a cryptocurrency project that has garnered quite a bit of criticism regarding a previous rug-pull attempt, Pippen revealed in an interview with TMZ that he and filmmaker Deon Taylor are teaming up for a documentary about the 1991 season for the Bulls.

During an interview with TMZ Sports on Friday night that aired on Fox Sports 1, Pippen spoke about the situation and the importance of the 1991 NBA Finals Game 5 ball, which he still has to this day:

"We're looking to do a documentary on this basketball because we think that there's a lot of stories to be told. I think that ball really was a start of a dynasty and almost, I want to say, the end of a great dynasty in the Los Angeles Lakers, who we've known for many years in the '80s as 'Showtime.'"

"I think it's going to be more about the whole run of that season. I am working with a team, but my ideal is to see this ball really sort of tell a story of what it was like for basketball in the '90s and what it was like for our journey to get to that first championship."

Looking at how Scottie Pippen's recent cryptocurrency announcement coincides with his documentary about the 1991 Chicago Bulls

Prior to announcing that he was going to be creating a documentary about the 1991 Chicago Bulls, Pipen announced over the summer that he was tokenizing the 1991 NBA Finals game ball, which he has held onto for all these years.

Through his new $BALL cryptocurrency token, Pippen is giving fans a chance to own a fractional piece of NBA history. The news of the project, however, was met with considerable criticism for a number of reasons.

Specifically, back in 2022, Pippen was part of an NFT project that was labeled as an unsuccessful scam, known in the crypto space as a "rug pull."

Given that, CryptoTimes.io covered a deep dive by a crypto community user known as ZachXBT, who investigates crypto projects and rug pulls. As it turns out, the wallet associated with the $BALL token appears to be the same as one used in two other cryptocurrency rug pulls.

When criticism began to circulate online, Pippen doubled down on the token, dumping a reported $330,000 worth of the crypto token. As he explained, the move was done to "mitigate attacks"; however, many viewed the transaction as shady.

Since then, Pippen has continued to promote the coin. Given his latest documentary surrounding the ball, it sounds as though he's charging forward full steam ahead despite skepticism around $BALL.