HomoSapien wrote:It was actually Roy Rogers. I was always under the impression that they could renegotiate his salary, but decided not to.
Roy, Rodney, Buck, Mister, hell none of them could play.
It's a very common misconception that the Bulls were just dicks and refused to renegotiate Pippen's contract, when actually the rules were the same as now, you can only renegotiate a contract when your team is under the cap. Which the Bulls never were in the 90's, well until the last season of the 90's anyway.
Shawn Kemp demanded (and received) a trade out of Seattle after the 1997 season because they couldn't renegotiate his contract, so they sent him to Cleveland where the Cavs could redo his deal. He went from $3.3 million in 1997 with the Sonics to $8.6 million in 1998 with the Cavs.
September 25, 1997: As part of a 3-team trade, traded by the Seattle SuperSonics to the Cleveland Cavaliers; the Cleveland Cavaliers traded Terrell Brandon, Tyrone Hill and a 1998 1st round draft pick (Pat Garrity) to the Milwaukee Bucks; the Milwaukee Bucks traded Sherman Douglas to the Cleveland Cavaliers; and the Milwaukee Bucks traded Vin Baker to the Seattle SuperSonics.
http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... psh01.html
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Pippen was also pissed that the Bulls brought Kukoc over in 1993-94 and after one season they had his Full Bird Rights (that was the rule back then, not 3 years) and paid him a lot more than Pippen was making for the next 4 seasons.
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