Scottie Pippen Latest to Join the List of Miami Heat Doubters

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Scottie Pippen known to frequently attend Heat games is the latest former NBA great to cast a remark discrediting Miami’s chances at competing for a title this upcoming season.

“You can put a lot of great players together but it’s about building chemistry. There have been a lot of great teams put together. But that doesn’t really seal the deal. Me, personally, I think that Boston is still the best team in the East. Miami has to prove themselves.”

So Charles Barkley called it a "punk" move. Michael Jordan stated he would've never teamed up with either Barkley, Magic Johnson, or Larry Bird. Now Pippen brings the chemistry thing into the equation.

For everyone that hints at the chemistry cliche’, please remember that Dwyane Wade won an NBA title playing with many guys he’d never shared a court with before.

Gary Payton, James Posey, Jason Williams, and Antoine Walker all got extended minutes in Miami’s championship season and none had played with Wade previously.

So why wasn’t chemistry a problem then?

Wade showed that during the course of 82 regular season games one can easily familiarize themselves with the guys that surround you.

Boston won a title the first year they had their "Big 3" assembled.

Chemistry is important but extremely over rated. I'll take talent over chemistry any day.

One must constantly keep in mind that Miami now boasts three of the leagues top 15 players along with one of the premier three point specialists.

While Pippen is more than entitled to his opinion it seems a bit alarming that only Jeff Van Gundy has come to Miami's defense in terms of the moves they made.

It simply screams of hypocrisy. Every single person that has come out speaking negatively of the joining of forces would have loved to do the same thing.

Like Wade said show me one league executive, fan or player that would have not have done the same thing and he'll show you a liar.

It's odd how everyone wanted any one of these guys and because Miami manages to land all three then suddenly it's a bad thing.

Cleveland wanted LeBron so badly yet when he chose to take his talents to South Beach then Dan Gilbert suddenly comes out and calls him a quitter, a malcontent and a narcissist. Yet no one bothered to ask Gilbert why he was so intent on trying to resign a player/person with so many horrible flaws.

Then Jerry Colangelo comes out and says Bosh quit on Toronto as well.

It's downright comedic to see how everyone is trying to tarnish the greatest free agent coup in sports history.

Luckily for fans this will all be settled on a court. Just be sure not to come up with any more excuses when this chemistry deprived, "Alpha Dog" filled team wins it all this season.

Get the feeling a whole lot of guys are going to be eating humble pie when all is said and done next June.