HomoSapien wrote:I don't think his reputation is tarnished. I think most people recognize him as an all-time great player but also recognize him as a guy who is harming his own reputation of late. That doesn't erase Pippen the basketball player, but it is erasing Pippen the ambassador of the game.
To add a bit of nuance to it, the vast majority of casual fans don't know any of this stuff or care about it and only think that Pippen is the Robin to Jordan's Batman and a legend. The more die hard fan are the ones where Pippen has tarnished legacy by doing dumb thing after dumb thing after dumb thing, and because they follow the news to see all the dumb things, there's now a lot of dumb things inbetween now and his last championship.