Being Compared to Scottie Pippen is Terrible for Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton was handed the ultimate backhanded compliment by senior White House adviser Dan Pfeiffer, who said that she is more of a Scottie Pippen than a Michael Jordan, like her husband or Barack Obama.

If Pfeiffer is right, this is not a good thing for Clinton.

Pippen is one of the all-time greats, but he is best known as a sidekick to Jordan who couldn't win when he was in the leading role.

Jordan, an all-time great in trash-talk, was tough on Pippen the whole time they played together—making him play 1-on-1 until long after practice was over.

It had an effect on Pippen that became clear in 1994, when, after three straight championships for the Chicago Bulls, Jordan left to go play baseball. Pippen, who was certainly never allowed to take a final shot when Jordan was on the court, thought he would finally get a chance.

Then, all tied up with the New York Knicks and needing a big shot with 1.8 seconds left, coach Phil Jackson opted to have Pippen inbound the ball to rookie Toni Kukoč instead.

Pippen was so angry that he refused to even take the court as "the Croatian Sensation" nailed it.

Despite that win, Pippen and the Bulls would lose the series. They lost again without Jordan for most of the next year, but when Jordan came back they then won another three straight championships.

Though Pippen is proud of those six championships, they don't earn him the respect from other all-time greats such as Shaq, who compared the MJ-Pippen relationship to Batman-Robin or Puffy-Mase.

Sorry @scottiepippen I don't believe in hypotheticals either, but I seen most of those final you did ok , but this guy did most the work . #youwereok steve kerr and Ron harper deserve more credit than you , remember I WAS BATMAN YOU WAS ROBIN , I was PUFFY YOU WAS MASE...

A photo posted by DR. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Ed.D. (@shaq) on Jul 20, 2015 at 3:10pm PDT

He also called Pippen the T-Mobile Sidekick.

Anybody need a T MOBILE SIDEKICK. I GOTTa PRETTY GOOD ONE #BESTSIDEKICKEVER A photo posted by DR. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Ed.D. (@shaq) on Jul 20, 2015 at 3:56pm PDT

He also called Pippen Mr. Second Fiddle.

@scottiepippen yes THE GREAT MICHAEL JORDAN GOT YOU SIX RINGS , but you will always be remembered as MR 2nd FIDDLE. SECOND BEHIND HIM AND SECOND BEHIND ME. GAME AINT OVER TIL I SAY SO. stay in yo place. 6 time nba CHUMPION

A photo posted by DR. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Ed.D. (@shaq) on Jul 21, 2015 at 11:29am PDT

And reminded him that when Pippen was on the Trailblazers without Jordan, this happened.

See what happens @scottiepippen when Michael Jordan ain't protecting you, you lose a 17 pt lead in the fourth quarter. And this happens A video posted by DR. SHAQUILLE O'NEAL Ed.D. (@shaq) on Jul 20, 2015 at 10:43pm PDT

No presidential candidate should want to be the Scottie Pippen of the race.