MJ was the No.3 highest-earning athlete in 1991 with a total income of $16 million.
After the Chicago Bulls finally got over the Detroit Pistons hump and became NBA champions in 1991, Michael Jordan became a bigger superstar than ever. Later that offseason, Gatorade released its iconic ‘Be like Mike’ commercial.
“I’d like his bank account,” Pippen said. “I suppose I wouldn’t mind being him for a day, or maybe a couple of days.”
Just the bank account, not his life
While Pip was kind of half-joking with that answer, he indeed needed that money. Scottie was the youngest of 12 children, and when he was 14, his father suffered a stroke that paralyzed him for the rest of his life. But other than that, small-town boy Pip wanted no part of MJ’s life.
“No, I wouldn’t ever want to be him,” Pippen continued. “To have to stay in the room all day long, because so many people are waiting outside? To always have the feeling that someone is standing behind you, listening, just recording everything you say and do? No. I don’t know how he does it. I can go out. I can walk around. People come up to me for autographs and to talk, but it’s natural. They see Michael, and they jump. People act as if they’ve seen a ghost. No, I wouldn’t want to live like that.”
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