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Article: Bulls think they have a pippin of a pick in Pippen
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 23, 1987
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Jerry Krause's eyes opened wide and he gushed as a big-game
hunter who had discovered "Big Foot" or the "Abominable Snowman," one
of those critters glimpsed at a distance or known only by awesome
footprints in Tibet, Nepal or Inner Mongolia, places you can't reach
without riding a yak.
"Scottie Pippen is 6-7 1/2, 212 pounds, a 74-inch wingspan -
which is unreal. We think he'll get bigger and stronger. He has
grown eight inches in the last four years. For those who follow
genetics, Scottie's mother is 6 feet and weighs nearly 200 pounds."
To hear Krause talk, you'd think the Bulls had just trapped a
pterodactyl, one of those angular winged reptiles that flew over the
earth in the ...