We think it was. Left. Submitted. Right: Scottie Pippen’s Facebook page.

Well, the last couple of hours have been quite a roller coaster ride.

I woke up to comments assuring me that the photo we published last night, of Chicago Bulls legend Scottie Pippen enjoying a meal at Shamus T. Bones a few hours earlier, was not in fact Scottie Pippen at all. 

This despite the fact that the man in the picture looks quite a lot like Scottie Pippen.

Then I discovered that the kid who sent me the photo has a YouTube channel in which he and his pals pull pranks and stunts. Some of those same pals were in the picture with the purported Pippen.

At that point, I updated last night’s post to indicate that I now harbored a strong suspicion that I had been pranked, and perhaps this was not Scottie Pippen at all.

However.

Afterward, people started reaching out to us to say that they, too, spotted Scottie at the Shamus T. Bones, and they too had pictures.

For instance: Fellow kid @s.1grammer told us “It is him,” and sent his own picture, which, as he said, is a lot clearer.

Photo: @s.1grammer.

“Picture is more clear it’s him,” this kid says. “Voice is exactly the same as interviews I’ve heard. This picture is more clear and you can see him better it’s him %100.”

Here is Michael Acevedo getting his selfie. Acevedo, you will note, is not a teenage prankster but a grown-ass man, and he used email to contact us, exactly as an adult would do.

Photo: Michael Acevedo.

Asked to describe his interaction, Acevedo said:

I just asked if it was cool to get a pic with him… I saw others go over for a closer pic with him but I didn’t want to be overly intrusive. He was getting a lot of sneak pics and attention for sure. Basically had a crew with him… 

Shortly after this, our original tipster, Cayden Woods, reached out. This is the kid I described as “an absolute baller,” and that’s a statement I will stand by, whatever the facts turn out to be.

Cayden pleaded his case. Look at his Instagram stories, Cayden said. You can totally see it’s him! I wasn’t lying.

Summoning my best impersonation of a high-school principal, I confronted Cayden with the cold hard evidence of his YouTube prank channel. You are a known prankster! Don’t try to deny it! What do you have to say for yourself, young man?

What he said was this:

NOOO

THATS FROM LIKE 2 YEARS AGO

we stopped that awhile ago

OG3 for life tho🐐

I promised Cayden yet another update, which you are reading now, and proceeded to curse him to hell if he is lying to me. He responded

that’s fair 😭 but i swear it’s not a prank

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Now, for reference purposes, here is a video of the verified real Scottie Pippen throwing shade on a former teammate just a couple of weeks ago:

And after having considered all of this, the Outpost believes that the preponderance of the evidence will show that, yes, in fact, the great Scottie Pippen himself was in fact in Eureka last night, and had dinner at Shamus T. Bones.

But we don’t trust ourselves anymore! Nothing makes sense! You have to tell us: Is that Scottie Pippen?