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Pippen confirms
he can be clutch
■The $14.8 million role
player is poised to lead the
Blazers all the way by doing
whatever needs to get done
By Landon Hall
The Associated Press
PORTLAND—Whenever Scot
tie Pippen disappears, his Port
land Trail Blazers teammates
know he won’t be gone for long.
Take Tuesday night’s playoff
game against the Utah Jazz. Pip
pen had struggled his previous
three games, scoring just 15
points, including a six-point effort
in Sunday’s Game 4, which Utah
won to avoid being swept.
Pippen came back with nine
points in the first quarter of Game
5. Then he was quiet again until
late in the fourth quarter, when he
made a series of huge plays, high
lighted by his game-winning 3
pointer with 7.3 seconds left.
“Once it left his hand, it felt
good, and after watching the re
play, you just saw the confidence.
You knew it was going in,” team
mate Steve Smith said. “He didn’t
have particularly great games the
last two or three games against
Utah, but then he comes up with
the big game one we need.”
Pippen finished with 23 points,
nine rebounds, eight assists, three
steals and one block in the 81-79
victory, which sent the Blazers to
the Western Conference finals to
face the Los Angeles Lakers. Game
1 is Saturday in Los Angeles.
Pippen’s all-around perform
ance won raves from Phil Jackson,
the Lakers’ coach who helped Pip
pen and Michael Jordan win six ti
tles when they were in Chicago.
“I’d like to think I helped devel
op that ability,” Jackson said.
“He’s the one that did it.”
Of the Blazers’ 91 games this
season, Pippen scored in single
digits 28 times. Yet he never pub
licly complained about his shots
or the offense one time, preferring
to be a $14.8 million role player.
“I’m going to do what I’ve got to
do to help us win, and that’s some
thing I’ve been trying to do all sea
son long,” he said before Wednes
day’s practice. “Whatever holes
we need to be plugged, I’m going
to try to plug them.”
Even on his dramatic 3-pointer
Tuesday night, his first thought
was to get the ball to Rasheed Wal
lace. But when Utah’s Bryon Rus
sell eased off to guard against the
post feed, he took the best shot
available.
“Scottie’s value to all his teams
has been that he’s a great defender
and more of a playmaker, a deci
sion maker,” Portland coach Mike
Dunleavy said. “He made all the
big plays down the stretch.”
Pippen said he couldn’t rank
his 3-pointer among the most
clutch shots of his career, because
he didn’t know how important it
will be.
“I can only answer that after we
win the championship,” he said.
“But it
was a
big shot.
It helped us to advance to the next
round, but there’s a lot more bas
ketball to be played.”
After agreeing to be traded out
of Chicago last year, Pippen forced
a trade from Houston after he
ripped into Rockets teammate
Charles Barkley on national TV.
He arrived in Portland with bag
gage in tow, but he joined a team
that was willing to overlook his
character flaws for a chance at a ti
tle.
Pippen not only has avoided
tarnishing his reputation further,
he’s become the team’s trusted
leader, especially since the post
season began. He averaged 12.5
points during the regular season,
but has boosted that to 14.8 in the
playoffs. He’s also kept Wallace
from getting numerous technical
fouls by calming him down in
heated situations.
With Pippen in the lineup,
there’s no way the Blazers will re
peat their blowup of a year ago,
when they lost their cool and were
swept by the San Antonio Spurs.
“The only thing they lacked
was just a little bit of guidance,
and I think a lot of the players
have leadership qualities.” Pip
pen said. “But none of them was
really willing to step up and sort
of lead that task for us, so I tried to
take it upon myself.”
Pippen said there’s nothing spe
cial about playing Jackson, other
than the chance it gives him for
another shot at the NBA Finals.
“As a player, you know how
hard it is to get where you are right
now, and you know that these op
portunities don’t come very of
ten.”
Griffey graces cereal
in his Reds uniform
CINCINNATI — Ken Griffey Jr.
has made it-onto a cereal box
wearing the red pinstripes of his
hometown team for the first time.
Wheaties unveiled a “Welcome
Home” box Wednesday that will
be shipped to stores in Ohio this
week. Collectors can buy a box
online.
Some stores in Cincinnati still
carry boxes of Frosted Wheaties
showing Griffey in a Seattle
Mariners uniform on the front.
Griffey rejoined his hometown
Reds in a Feb. 10 trade.
Griffey has been on numerous
Wheaties boxes, but never before
as a Red. He’s shown swinging in
a home Reds uniform, though the
team logo has been removed.
“First of all, I’m excited about
being on the orange box,” Griffey
said, standing next to a 6-foot-tall
replica at a pregame news confer
ence. “Hopefully the next time
we’re on the orange box it will
have ’World Champions’ on it.”
After the Reds swept Oakland
to win the 1990 World Series, a
Wheaties cover featured Barry
Larkin, Jose Rijo, Eric Davis, Chris
Sabo, Randy Myers and Hal Mor
ris. That box was shipped to
stores in the region.
Pete Rose was on a box in 1985,
when he broke Ty Cobb’s career
hits record. Johnny Bench made
the cover of a box distributed re
gionally in 1989, when he was
voted into baseball’s Hall of Fame.
Griffey said his 6-year-old son
Trey and 4-year-old daughter
Taryn were excited that he made
it onto another cereal box.
“They’re like, ‘We want to eat
the cereal that daddy’s on.’ That’s
pretty cool,” Griffey said.
The Associated Press