Michael Jordan was all about the Last Dance, But Scottie Pippen is focusing on the First Dance.
TMZ Sports reported that Pippen is participating in a documentary of the Bulls’ 1990-91 championship season, the first of the franchise’s six NBA titles.
There’s one unusual twist — the documentary will focus on the game ball from Game 5 of the NBA Finals victory over the Lakers.
“We’re looking to do a documentary on this basketball because we think that there’s a lot of stories to be told,” Pippen told TMZ. “I think that ball really was a start of a dynasty and almost, I want to say, the end of a great dynasty in the Los Angeles Lakers, who we’ve known for many years in the ’80s as ‘Showtime.”
The Lakers wouldn’t win another title until Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O’Neal and Phil Jackson arrived in Los Angeles a decade later.
Pippen said he’s working with producer Deon Taylor on the film
“I think it’s going to be more about the whole run of that season,” Pippen told TMZ. “I am working with a team, but my ideal is to see this ball really sort of tell a story of what it was like for basketball in the ’90s and what it was like for our journey to get to that first championship.”