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

1993-94 Pippen, who almost led the Bulls to the Finals, got 21 pts on 49% fg/8 rebs/5 asts, and played elite defense. It's not absurd.

Care to post wades best season?

His playoff numbers?

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Wade carried a team to a title.

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I think Shaq disagrees

Apparently players older than 32 are irrelevant. frick shaq. Did you watch the playoffs that year? One of the best runs by a player in my young lifetime.

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

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Sorry man but 33 is not old in the NBA

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What does that have to do with anything, though?

I said Pippen in his prime was better than Wade. Is anybody arguing that 33 was Pippen's prime?

Pippen had a crap ton of injury issues towards the end of his career. And he did help lead the blazers to game 7 of the WCF, which they lost to the lakers in one of the more dubiously officiated games of all time

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Wade carried a team to a title. Pippen never could by himself and he had some chances

Gimme wade. He could take over a game. Still can

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Yeah, Wade has that ability to go into "God Mode" sometimes where he is just unstoppable. When the Heat won that first title against the Mavs it seemed like he was like that for the last 4 games of that series. Pippen never had that in him. And that was why Jordan was obviously the better player. Wade is like a Jordan lite and Pippen is like a Lebron lite.

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