Sure, 10-year-old Dane Bradshaw was excited and a little nervous. Who wouldnt be? He was about to meet his basketball hero.
Thoughts raced. What should he wear? What would he say? Then into a Central Arkansas dorm room stepped Chicago Bulls star Scottie Pippen.
Pippen didnt stay long.
Where do you want me to sign? Ive got to hurry, Pippen said. Bradshaw held up a basketball. Pippen autographed it and went to another room.
Discouraged, but not defeated, Bradshaw devised another plan. After all, this was important. He wore Pippens No. 33 in youth games. His bedroom walls were lined with posters of Pippen, the star in the shadows behind Bulls legend Michael Jordan.
Hes a ball hog, Bradshaw would dismiss Jordan. Pippen was the guy he admired, and he had traveled to Conway, Ark., from Memphis to attend a basketball camp held in Pippens name.
Word was Pippen would be there on the final day to present the trophy for most valuable player. So Bradshaw went out and won it, again thinking his favorite player would surely take time to acknowledge such a devoted fan.
Only Pippen didnt show. He had skipped town, and little Dane was not amused.
He throws the MVP trophy into the back of the car, gets in with this long face, Linda Bradshaw, Danes mother, recalled. He walked right into his room, took down every Scottie Pippen poster, rolled them up, put them in the closet.
That was the end of Scottie Pippen.
anes last shot 
