Pippen To Make a Return?

Second, Michael would not have won all those rings without Pip, but he also would have won them without Horace Grant, John Paxson, Steve Kerr and a lot of other guys. Pippen's not in the Top 50 of all time, but I'd put him in the Top 100. The Bulls still did well during Michael's first retirement under the leadership of Pip. Although, he did always have an ego that outweighed his talent. For instance this recent quote, "I'm not going to be a nonstop high-flyer like I was in my prime."

That being said, I think it's unfair that a player like Pippen can just pick a team with two months to go and get a free pass for the playoffs. I also think it would be a bad idea for a team to pick him up. The reason for both of these is a team takes a huge chunk of the season working extremely hard to play together as a team. Pippen would get to skip all that work and a lot of that work would be undone by adding another player, especially one with as big of name and ego as Pip. When I saw this story break I started thinking about how he could relieve some pressure off LeBron, but when I saw the two month's left comment, I hope he stay's far away from Cleveland because he's going to mess up whatever team he joins.

I'd be in favor for a requirement that a player have been on the roster for XX% of the team's games, not on the roster by XX date.