With ESPN’s “The Last Dance” dominating the self-quarantined psyche of many sports fans worldwide, I found it hard not to get swept up in the nostalgia as an avid fan of both Scottie Pippen and the Chicago Bulls.
I know, I know: Pippen isn’t exactly the name most kids were sporting on the backs of their Bulls jerseys during the ’90s, but it was those magical, championship iterations of that legendary team that made me fall in love with the game of basketball. And with basketball on the minds of me many with The Last Dance now in our rearview mirrors, I figured why not build off the momentum of my Bloodsport article by focusing on the NBA’s baddest for this next installment of “How would they do in MMA?”
Putting my Bulls bias aside, I decided to rank some of basketball’s most notable forces in relation to how their attitudes and abilities would translate to mixed martial arts.
