Why does Pippen ask for so much less pay than Jordan?

No way, Jordan has contributed a lot more to the team than Pippen. 1: Due to Jordan's superb skills and his personal charm, as soon as Jordan played, the Bulls' audience was full, and he greatly drove the team's income.

2: Under the leadership of Jordan, the Bulls have reached the playoffs and the finals many times. Although Pippen played a key role, it was Jordan who played the main one.

3: Jordan has more personal achievements than Pippen, so he is also more well-known than Pippen. Based on the above, it is clear that he has a higher salary than Pippen. Thank you!

Because Jordan has contributed more to the team than Pippen. Jordan has a lot of fans, which will bring attendance and bring benefits to the team. Jordan's influence will also add influence to the team.

1. Michael Jordan (Michael Jordan), born on February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York, is a famous American basketball player, a shooting guard, and the greatest basketball player in history.

In the NBA Draft, Jordan was selected by the Chicago Bulls with the third pick in the first round. In the 1986-87 season, Jordan averaged points per game and won the title of point champion for the first time. In the 1990-91 season, Jordan won the regular season MVP and finals MVP titles in a row, leading the Chicago Bulls to the NBA championship for the first time.

In the 1997-98 season, Jordan won the 10th scoring title of his career and led the Bulls to their sixth championship. On September 11, 2009, Jordan was officially inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame.

Pippen signed a long-term contract with the Bulls that year, which should be seven years, the total amount is very high, but the average is relatively low every year, and as a result, in the course of seven years, the NBA has developed rapidly throughout the league, resulting in several doubles in the player's salary, and Pippen's long-term contract can never be ended, so it leads to a very low salary in the later period, and after the end of the Bulls dynasty, Pippen went to the Rockets and got an annual salary of tens of millions.

The level is there, Jordan retired for the first time, Pippen is the boss, nothing, he can't get into the playoffs, and Jordan can only be the second honestly after he comes back.

Jordan's documentary "The Last Dance" in the last season of the Bulls officially aired today, and the second episode began with the salary of Pippen, the second leader of the Bulls at the time. At that time, Jordan's annual salary was $33.14 million, and Pippen was only $2.78 million, behind Ron Harper (4.56 million), Kukochi (4.56 million), Rodman (4.5 million), and Longley (3.18 million).

Pippen has had an illustrious career, and he is one of the best second-in-command in history. It was because of Pippen's rise in the 90s that Jordan was able to stand at the top of the league. Pippen partnered with Jordan and completed two consecutive triple championships, establishing his status in the Hall of Fame.

During Jordan's retirement, Pippen also proved the ability to lead the team with a single core, and won a burst + one defense many times, and was the first small forward in the 90s. Later in his career, Pippen left the Bulls, and although he only played for one year with the Rockets, this year was a turning point in his career, and 70% of his salary came from this contract.

Pippen was drafted in 1987 and was drafted by the SuperSonics that year before being traded to the Bulls. For the first 11 years of his career, Pippen played for the Bulls, and he gradually went from an obscure substitute to a super forward who can play both offense and defense. Pippen is very strong at the peak, and in the 91 finals, Pippen averaged 21 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists per game, which is definitely a super-giant performance.

With 6 career championships in hand, there are 3 times for a period + 8 times for a defense, and the performance is perfect.

In the 11 years of the Bulls, Pippen's performance was excellent, but his salary was not high. Over the course of 11 seasons, Pippen's salaries were $730,000, $580,000, $770,000, $2.77 million, $3.43 million, $3.08 million, $2.23 million, $2.93 million, $2.25 million, and $2.78 million. Taking the 97-98 season as an example, Jordan's salary is as high as $33.14 million, Ewing is $20.5 million, O'Neal is $12.86 million, but Pippen is only $2.78 million, which is obviously not in line with his strength and status.

During the entire Bulls period, Pippen only earned $21.5 million, which can be said to be very little. However, after leaving the Bulls in '98, Pippen also ushered in a turning point in his career, when the Rockets offered him a five-year, $77.36 million contract, and he was 33 years old at that time. After that, Pippen played for 1 year in the Rockets, and his statistics were only average rebounds and assists per game, and he didn't even score an All-Star, and his performance was very average.

After just one year with the Rockets, Pippen was traded to the Trail Blazers, where he returned to the Bulls after four seasons of struggle before retiring with honor. Throughout Pippen's career, the most glorious period was the Bulls 11 years, where he won many honors. After leaving the Bulls, Pippen didn't even make an All-Star, but the Rockets were crucial for him that year, because the big contract of $77.36 million accounted for 71% of his career salary.

Honor is important, but the big contract of real gold ** is the most critical, which Pippen really has to thank the Rockets.

Larsa said that Pippen has earned a lot of career with hundreds of millions of dollars in salary, in fact, this is a way to comfort himself, Pippen has a salary of $100 million in his career, but the United States tax deduction is very very good, and it may be less than $50 million.

Pippen has received 100 million dollars in his entire career, but the actual amount he has received is only tens of millions.

The reason why Michael Jordan is called the "God of Basketball" is not only because he has complete dominance on the court and can do almost anything, but also because he is "fighting for the first place everywhere" in all statistics of the NBA, even if he can't get the first place, he must be in the top ten on the list. Such a competitive player naturally can't compromise on salary. Jordan is not short of money, and off-court advertising endorsements are the bulk of his income, but the salary in the NBA team symbolizes the status of the player, how can he not be the highest paid player on the team as the team leader?

In a day when player salaries were not as inflationary as today, Jordan already had an annual salary of more than $30 million, and he deserved that much money. But sometimes the salary can not only be looked at the specific amount, but also the proportion of his salary in the team. In the 1997-98 season, Jordan's annual salary reached $33.14 million, accounting for more than 50% of the Bulls' overall salary and more than the rest of his teammates combined.

This situation is not only due to Jordan's own high salary, but also because of the "short-sightedness" of the second-in-command Scottie Pippen. Pippen, who came from a poor background, signed a seven-year contract with the Bulls in one go, which allowed him to be in the low-wage class for almost seven years with the league's salary increase. Throughout his Bulls career, Pippen's annual salary never exceeded $3.5 million.

That didn't change until 1998, when Pippen left the Bulls after his 10-year league entry.

In the 1997-98 season, the average annual salary of an NBA player was only $2.45 million, while in the 2016-17 season, the average annual salary of an NBA player was close to $8 million. At that time, the team's salary cap was more than $20 million, and Jordan's salary alone had exceeded the salary cap, and Jordan's $30 million one-year contract was almost $100 million a year if it reached now.

At that time, the salary cap of the entire Bulls team was only $30 million, and the salary cap was greater than or equal to the total salary of all players on the team, and Jordan's annual salary was not recorded in the salary cap, so Jordan's annual salary was much greater than the two of them.

Because Jordan's shine overshadows them, fans know the Bulls, and generally know Jordan, and Jordan's ability is beyond doubt.

Jordan was the NBA spokesperson of that era, so his salary was higher than the other two combined.

The Bulls, who were successfully crowned champions in the summer of 96, are facing the important task of renewing Jordan's contract, and Jordan's last contract was an 8-year long-term contract signed in the summer of 88, the 95-96 season is the last year, and the annual salary is only 3.85 million, while Pippen's contract was signed in the summer of 91, because I didn't know how the league would develop in the future at that time, so it is insurance to be able to get a big contract, Jordan is like this, Pippen is the same, he and the Bulls also signed a 7-year 21 million big contract, It was a big contract at the time.

In this way, the time came to 1995, the NBA stipulated that players could sign without salary cap restrictions after three years of playing for the team, that is, the restrictions on signing were relaxed, so that in order to keep their own stars, teams used big contracts to sign the core of the team, and Ewing of the Knicks was the first batch of beneficiaries, his contract reached a terrifying 18.72 million in the 1995-96 season, which was the league's first 10 million annual salary player, many big names are very eye-catching, especially players who signed long-term contracts, For example, Pippen.

And Jordan was fortunate that his contract expired in the summer of 96, and after the expiration, Jordan was coaxed by all teams, including the craziest of them, including the Knicks, who almost emptied all the contracts in the team, including Ewing, who took 18.72 million the previous year, and only took 3 million in the 96-97 season, just to sign Jordan, and the general manager of the Bulls was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and directly gave Jordan an annual salary of 30 million, and the first 30 million annual salary contract in history was generated. And Pippen, who has a contract this year, is only 2.25 million, and the gap is too big.

In the summer of 97, Jordan's salary increased on the basis of 30 million when he renewed his contract again, that is, it reached 33.14 million, and Pippen's 97-98 season was only 2.78 million, which was the last year of Pippen's Bulls contract, because at that time the owners firmly occupied a favorable position in salary, and there was no player option at all, so Jordan took 33.14 million, and when Pippen got a 2.78 million contract, it was not that Pippen cut his salary for the team, but that he didn't catch up with the good times. There is no way, no one in the NBA who is the same day dares to pin their hopes on the league, <>

Pippen's idea of taking a long-term contract insurance was right, but who knew how quickly the alliance would grow later. If Jordan signs a ten-year contract with the Bulls, then he will not have a chance to get a salary of 30 million a year. Here's why.

Fortunately, Pippen's contract finally expired in 98, and the Bulls did not renew him with a high salary, he joined the Trail Blazers and got a super big contract of about 4 years and 60 million, and finally got a big contract that matched his value at the end of his peak and got the right contract.

Because Pippen was worried too much at the time, he signed a long-term contract with the team first, so he lost a lot.

The gap between the first and the second is so obvious, although Pippen's popularity and influence are not low, but it is really nothing compared to Jordan, you must know that Jordan himself also has many companies under his name.

Because Jordan has his own extra career behind him, not only the income of the profession, naturally Pippen's annual salary is not as high as Jordan's.

Pippen's career wasn't perfect, but Pippen was definitely a superstar in NBA league history, influencing the growth of a generation, and he was Jordan's most powerful assistant。There are many who say that Leonard is the closest person to Jordan, but his defensive strategy is the same as Pippen's. Pippen also influenced a group of players from 1985 to 1986 This season, Michael Jordan was full of firepower to help the Bulls successfully break through in the Eastern Conference, but they failed in the Finals because of the lack of a playmaker like Pippen and the lack of a right-hand man around him.

Pippen is definitely a great player, but his shine is overshadowed by Jordan, and if he hadn't worked with Jordan, he would definitely be a big man on a team.

Both Jordan and Pippen were indispensable to the team's triumph of winning the championship. It's a pity that people only remember the first place, and forget the existence of the second place, Pippen's greatness has become more and more insignificant under the shadow of Jordan, Pippen can be willing to dedicate, silently pay, and become the shadow of Jordan's side, which is also a kind of greatness. Pippen's performance on the Bulls back then, he could have gone to any team as the team's leader, but he didn't make such a choice.

However, it turns out that Pippen really can't be a presence beyond Jordan. After Jordan's first retirement, Pippen led the Bulls team to only the final four of the playoffs, without touching the floor of the Finals.

The highlight of Pippen's career came with the Bulls。Jordan retired Pippen for the second time and left the Bulls, and the Rockets, Trail Blazers and other teams did not find their proper position, nor did they get their own championship rings, and his career plummeted, becoming the last of the strong crossbows on the court