question: Which player, nicknamed "Pip," was acquired by the Blazers during the offseason of the 1999-2000 season?
answer: Scottie Pippen
context: Title: 1993–94 Portland Trail Blazers season
  Passage: The 1993–94 NBA season was the 24th season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association.  In the offseason, the Blazers acquired Harvey Grant from the Washington Bullets and signed unrestricted free agent Chris Dudley.  However, an ankle injury limited Dudley to just six games.  The Blazers finished the season with a 47–35 record, fourth in the Pacific Division and seventh in the Western Conference.  It was their 12th straight trip to the postseason.  Clifford Robinson led the Blazers in scoring with 20.1 points per game, and was selected for the 1994 NBA All-Star Game along with Clyde Drexler.
  Title: 2004–05 Portland Trail Blazers season
  Passage: The 2004–05 NBA season was the 35th season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association.  During the offseason, the Blazers acquired Nick Van Exel from the Golden State Warriors and signed free agent Joel Przybilla.  The Blazers played around .500 for the first two months, but started to struggle losing 11 of their 15 games in January.  Head coach Maurice Cheeks was fired midway through the season with a record of 22–33.  He was replaced by General Manager Kevin Pritchard, who acted as interim coach for the remainder of the season, in which the team went 5–22.  For the second year in a row, the Blazers did not qualify for the playoffs.  The team's overall record of 27–55 was their worst since 1973–74, their fourth season of existence.
  Title: Scottie Pippen
  Passage: Scottie Maurice Pippen (born September 25, 1965) is an American former professional basketball player who played in the National Basketball Association.  Nicknamed "Pip," he is most remembered for his time with the Chicago Bulls, the team with which he won six NBA titles.  Pippen, along with Michael Jordan, played an important role in transforming the Bulls team into a championship team and for popularizing the NBA around the world during the 1990s.
  Title: Pip (South Park)
  Passage: "Pip" (also known as "Great Expectations") is the fourteenth episode in the fourth season of the American animated television series "South Park".  The 62nd episode of the series overall, it first aired on Comedy Central in the United States on November 29, 2000.  The episode is a parody and comedic retelling of Charles Dickens's 1861 novel "Great Expectations", and stars the "South Park" character Pip, who assumes the role of Pip, the protagonist of the novel, who is his namesake.  "Pip" features no other regular characters from the show.  The story is narrated in a live action parody of the anthology television series "Masterpiece Theatre", with the narrator played by Malcolm McDowell.
  Title: 1999–2000 New Jersey Nets season
  Passage: The 1999–2000 NBA season was the Nets' 33rd season in the National Basketball Association, and 24th season in East Rutherford, New Jersey.  During the offseason, the Nets re-acquired Johnny Newman from the Los Angeles Clippers, who acquired him from the Cleveland Cavaliers, and re-signed free agent Sherman Douglas.  The Nets struggled losing 15 of their first 17 games, but would eventually get hot and find themselves in the playoff picture.  However, a rash of late season injures cost the team to lose their final eleven games finishing sixth in the Atlantic Division with a 31–51 record.  During the 1999–2000 season, several Nets reached different milestones.  Stephon Marbury dished out his 2,000th assist and Kendall Gill scored his 10,000th career point.
  Title: 1999–2000 Portland Trail Blazers season
  Passage: The 1999–2000 NBA season was the 30th season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association.  During the offseason, the Blazers acquired All-Star forward Scottie Pippen from the Houston Rockets, Steve Smith from the Atlanta Hawks, and signed free agent Detlef Schrempf.  Portland went 59–23, which tied them for the second-highest win percentage in franchise history.  Finishing second in the Pacific Division, they earned the #3 seed in the Western Conference on the basis that the 55–27 Utah Jazz won the Midwest Division title.  (However, the Blazers enjoyed homecourt advantage over Utah in their second-round playoff series).  The Blazers made the playoffs for the 18th consecutive year.  Rasheed Wallace was selected to play in the 2000 NBA All-Star Game.
  Title: 1990–91 Portland Trail Blazers season
  Passage: The 1990–91 NBA season was the 21st season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association.  During the offseason, the Blazers acquired Danny Ainge from the Sacramento Kings.  The Blazers won their first eleven games on their way to a franchise best start at a record of 27–3.  They would post a 16-game winning streak near the end of the season as they finished with a league best record at 63–19, setting a franchise-high win total that still stands today, and made their ninth consecutive trip to the NBA Playoffs.  It was their first Pacific Division title since the 1977–78 season, and ended the Los Angeles Lakers' streak of nine straight years as Pacific Division champions and number-one seed in the Western Conference.
  Title: 2000 Buffalo Bills season
  Passage: The 2000 Buffalo Bills season was the team's 41st and 31st as part of the National Football League.  The Bills total offense ranked 9th in the league and their total defense ranked 3rd in the league.  The 2000 season was the first since the 1987 season that long-time Bills players Bruce Smith, Andre Reed and Thurman Thomas were not on the team together, as all were released just days after the Bills were eliminated from the 1999 playoffs.  Smith and Reed signed with the Redskins, while Thomas signed with the Dolphins.  The Buffalo Bills finished in fourth place in the AFC East and finished the National Football League's 2000 season with a record of 8 wins and 8 losses.  Though the Bills were 7-4 after eleven games, they lost their next four in a row, only avoiding a losing season in the final game of the year.  The 2000 season marked a turning point in Buffalo's history.  From 2000 to present, the Bills have failed to make the playoffs.  After the 2000 season ended, general manager John Butler left the team to take the same position with the San Diego Chargers.
  Title: 2000–01 Portland Trail Blazers season
  Passage: The 2000–01 NBA season was the 31st season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association.  In the offseason, the Blazers acquired Dale Davis from the Indiana Pacers, and All-Star forward Shawn Kemp from the Cleveland Cavaliers in a three-team trade.  At midseason, the team re-signed free agent Rod Strickland, who was released by the Washington Wizards.  Falling nine games below the previous season's mark, the Blazers nevertheless made the playoffs for the 19th consecutive year, finishing as the #7 seed in the Western Conference with a 50–32 record.  Rasheed Wallace was selected for the 2001 NBA All-Star Game.
  Title: 1989–90 Portland Trail Blazers season
  Passage: The 1989–90 NBA season was the 20th season for the Portland Trail Blazers in the National Basketball Association.  During the offseason, the Blazers acquired All-Star forward Buck Williams from the New Jersey Nets.  The Blazers finished with a franchise-high 59–23 record and returned to the NBA Finals for the first time since their championship season of 1976–77.  However, they were unsuccessful in capturing their second NBA title, as they fell to the Detroit Pistons four games to one.
citations: Scottie Pippen 1999–2000 Portland Trail Blazers season