Name: Scottie Pippen is auctioning off gear from his legendary NBA career with the Bulls
Uploaded: 2026-03-09T21:32:15.000Z
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Once I started to look back at it and go back through it and see it all laid out, it was kind of tough for me about the first month because I.

I hadn't seen this stuff for a while, but

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I knew that I wasn't going to be able to lay this whole collection out.

So I just decided to depart ways with it.

You have jerseys from your playing days with the Bulls, from your time on the Dream Team, jerseys of other players, shoes from other players, as well as.

As you sort of amassed all of this over the years.

I mean, was it just kind of like, you know, you just ended up with this stuff because, you know, I mean, that's just how it works when you're a professional athlete.

Or did you have a mind of collecting and curating this stuff as you.

I was a collector, I guess, to some degree of my own collection.

So it was something that I valued throughout my career that, you know, I felt one day that I was going to hang these jerseys up or be able to give them to my kids.

And I think that, you know, I would probably keep it in a box or something for the rest of my life.

So I just felt like it was time for me to move on from it.

I know there's a lot of collectors out there that, you know, enjoy and embrace these moments.

So it sounds like the timing was right and it sounds like there wasn't necessarily a hardest piece to part with.

But I'm curious whether this is truly the entire collection or, you know, did you keep something back for yourself?

And so this is just a small portion of my collection.

Are you surprised at just how big sports memorabilia has gotten?

I mean, we take an auction house like Sotheby's that's normally auction off Picasso and, you know, Van Gogh or whatever, and

now we've seen over the years them auctioning off memorabilia in the sports world, the entertainment world, things that in the past would not have sort of traditionally been considered to be worthy of an auction house like Sotheby's.

Well, I think sports is definitely came a long way, definitely in terms of the value of players Jersey saw things that we've seen in the past and how they've been able to sell.

I wasn't expecting this when I started my collection.

It just happened that, you know, memorabilia has.

But, you know, I was glad that I was able to maintain and keep a lot of the stuff that I played in.

With regards to the items that you did select.

And there's a great video that Sotheby's put out of you kind of going through some of the items.

What was kind of like one of your biggest memories as you were going through that collection and kind of reminiscing?

Was it the three Peaks, the two three peats you had with the Bulls?

Was it your membership on the Dream Team, the Olymp Team, back in the 90s?

I think a lot of it was my years with The Bulls, the 90s, you know, just a long run there.

The stuff that I collected during the 92 Dream Team, the stuff I collected from the 96 Dream Team when I was in the moment, I really cherished those moments, and

It's just a little award that they gave me for being a part of the Basketball hall of Fame.

But I know that there are people out there that really love and idolize a lot of the sportsmanmobile yourself.

I've lived it and I've kind of moved on from that part of my life.

What's interesting is that, you know, this collection, it's not just your personal items.

You also have a few items from some of your teammates and also from Larry Bird as well.

I believe you have a jersey from him, but

you have a pair of Air Jordans that were worn by Michael Jordan during the 1992 Dream Team Olympics game.

And I think that might take a lot of people by surprise.

I mean, how did it come about that you have these sneaky.

Well, we was sort of closing out the gold medal game, and

we was just sitting in the locker room, myself and Michael and Charles and I just looked over, I saw Charles had jumped up and asked Michael for his jersey.

I mean, and that's been, what, 35 years or so?

I do want to talk about the presentation of this collection as well, because I think that's pretty.

You know how Sotheby's has designed what I believe is a full basketball court.

Actually, I haven't been on the court yet.

I was going to go on it this morning, but I haven't.

But I going to be meeting some of the I guess fans clients later today, so I'll get a chance to see if I can still throw up a few shots.

Scott, can I ask you about just the state of the NBA right now too?

I mean obviously the 90s were kind of the golden era and that's kind of one of the big selling points of this auction.

But when you look at viewership, I mean the NBA Finals viewership peaked with your last three peat in 98 over, over the Jazz.

And since then, I mean the finals that we've seen at least over the last few years, I mean we're tracking TV viewership that's less than half that when you look at what people are watching in terms of the regular season and the Finals.

Do you think the NBA needs to do more to promote the league or is there, is it just a talent issue?

But you know, the, the game has changed tremendously.

A lot of people are not as attractive to that style of play as they did in the past.

But there's other things out there too that are distracting and taken away from the game of basketball.

So it's not like it was in the 90s when, you know, the, the cell phone was not as popular, didn't have as many apps.

Well now people are now engaged in their phones and it takes away from what I consider the greatest gain, meaning basketball, is that people don't really have to watch games anymore.

Do you think there's maybe some growth potential internationally?

I know Adam Silver in the league is trying to do more to bring in more viewership from outside the U.S.

yeah, I mean our game is definitely a global game.

I mean it's definitely full of a lot of international players and I do see the game someday expanding to Europe, maybe Mexico.

I don't know how we fix the problem that's going on right now, but

I think that people tend to tune in a little more, but

just a lot more distraction going on that is hard for people to engage in the game as they did in the 90s and early 2000s.