Chicago Bulls: 10 Ideas For Scottie Pippen’s United Center Statue

The Chicago Bulls have plans to unveil a bronze Scottie Pippen statue that will be displayed in the United Center at some point during the 2010-2011 season. 

Omri and Julie Rotblatt-Amrany of Highland Park, Ill., who also crafted the Michael Jordan statue, which was unveiled in January of 1994, will handle the Pippen statue as well.

“Words really can’t express my feelings,” Pippen told Bulls.com. “It’s an unbelievable honor and truly amazing. It’s something you dream of as a kid growing up, but you can never foresee those childhood fantasies becoming reality. You see statues of individuals who have done great things and made their mark on history, but as a basketball player, you never really think about arriving at this point. It’s an amazing honor for the Chicago Bulls to do this for me.”

Pippen deserves this honor as being arguably the second best player to ever wear a Bulls uniform.

It’s been a good year for Pippen, as his jersey was retired at the University of Central Arkansas, he was entered into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and he was hired to return as an ambassador for the Chicago Bulls.

What famous Scottie Pippen pose should be used, however? A question I suggest we tackle right now.

But before we get into it, I’d like to say I was tempted to use Dream Team pictures and a picture of Jordan and Pippen having their final championship cigars, but, although fantastic pictures, I had to cut them.

Although the Dream Team was a huge part of Pippen’s career, clearly it represented more than the Chicago Bulls, so that won’t be going outside the United Center.

As for the cigar picture, I was thinking about the children and how parents wouldn’t enjoy their children seeing a statue of a Bulls legend lighting up a cigar.

For this article, however, kids can take a backseat because that picture is too awesome to leave out, so it’s going as the main photo of this piece.

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