Scottie Pippen’s latest bridge-burning tour is a reminder that hurt people hurt people | Andrew Lawrence

Still miffed by the best sidekick ever' millstone, the Bulls icon spared no one in a scorched-earth GQ interview. None of it comes as a shock, nor should the fact he keeps taking the bait

Once a staple of the fin-de-siecle Chicago Stadium scoreboard, the M&M race was the sprinkling on top of the ultimate sporting delight, a tasty bit of timeout entertainment to keep Bulls fans amped as the best basketball team on the planet schemed amid the screams. But when Michael Jordan turned up at the arena one day for shootaround, this sweet in-game set piece - an 8-bit, one-lap time trial between three candy-coated sprinters - transformed into something altogether sour: yet another opportunity to dupe Scottie Pippen.

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