Jeff has done the exercise we needed last night by reviewing Scottie Pippen's contact situation and notes that there was a window for the Bulls to extend Scottie in the 1995 … not before the 1997-98 season https://twitter.com/jgsiegel/status/1252329597909135360

But Jerry Reinsdorf famously had a "no renegotiation" policy as he acknowledged in the documentary ... and that, on this scorecard, goes down as the Bulls' mistake … while acknowledging that Scottie (and frankly MJ) could have handled things better here, too

Scottie signed the deal he signed, which Jeff notes was favorable at the beginning, while MJ could have intervened and didn't

But Pip was simply too important to the Bulls -- and specifically MJ -- for them not to try to get ahead of his peak unhappiness. They had that chance