what year did scottie pippen come into the nba?
1987
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 Scottie Pippen , Game 6 vs 1992 Cavs 

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 Several other professional football leagues have been formed since the AFL @-@ NFL merger , though none have had the success of the AFL . In 1974 , the World Football League formed and was able to attract such stars as Larry Csonka away from the NFL with lucrative contracts . However , most of the WFL franchises were insolvent and the league folded in 1975 ; the Memphis Southmen , the team that had signed Csonka and the most financially stable of the teams , unsuccessfully sued to join the NFL . 

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 In 1982 , the United States Football League formed as a spring league , and enjoyed moderate success during its first two seasons behind such stars as Jim Kelly and Herschel Walker . After its spring 1985 season , the league , which lost a considerable amount of money due to overspending on players , opted to gamble on moving its schedule to fall in 1986 and filing a billion @-@ dollar antitrust lawsuit against the NFL and its television partners in an effort to stay afloat . When the lawsuit only drew a three @-@ dollar judgment days before the fall 1986 season was to begin , the USFL folded . 

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 Several players left in free agency , including Terry Porter ( 1995 ) , Buck Williams ( 1996 ) , and Cliff Robinson ( 1997 ) , which left Jerome Kersey unprotected in the 1995 expansion draft . 

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 Branch Rickey , president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers , began making efforts to introduce a black baseball player to the previously all @-@ white professional baseball leagues in the mid @-@ 1940s . He selected Jackie Robinson from a list of promising Negro league players . After obtaining a commitment from Robinson to " turn the other cheek " to any racial antagonism directed at him , Rickey agreed to sign him to a contract for $ 600 a month . In what was later referred to as " The Noble Experiment " , Robinson was the first black baseball player in the International League since the 1880s , joining the Dodgers ' farm club , the Montreal Royals , for the 1946 season . 
