re: Better player: 26 year old Scottie Pippen or 31 year old DWADE

Wade was the best player on his team but Shaq was still very much an all-star and only a year or two removed from what should have been an MVP year his first season in Miami. After Shaq got old/left wade never led his team past the first round until lebron. There's numerous stories from the dream team selection/practices about pippen being the second best perimeter player on the team after Jordan, as well as being one of the four locks USA basketball had when they began forming the team