In 1996, Scottie Pippin, Dennis Rodman, and Michael Jordan led the Chicago Bulls to an 87–75 victory over the Seattle SuperSonics, winning the NBA Championship. It was not actually a great game for Jordan, who averaged just 26.3 percent from the field compared to his career average of nearly 50 percent, but the Bulls were able to capitalize on nearly a decade of team building among long-time members such as Jordan and Pippin, as well as among newcomers Rodman, James Edwards, and John Salley, who joined the team that year but who previously had played together for many years with the Detroit Pistons.

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