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Scottie Pippen was on a golf course in South Florida making the turn after the front nine when I reached him on his cell phone Monday to ask a few questions regarding his mysterious and still pending comeback.

Setting a tone, Pippen was vague about his exact location -- and he wasn't exactly spilling his guts, either, when I asked him to divulge a few specifics about whether he's really planning to return to the NBA, and what conditioning he's doing to get ready.

A sample:

Are you running much? Like five miles a day?

Pippen: "No, I wouldn't say that. I'm not really a distance runner, but I'm riding my bike a lot, doing substantial distances."

Which teams exactly are interested?

Pippen: "I'm not saying."

Pippen says it'll be another week or two before he decides whether to go through with a comeback at age 41 -- an idea that has been ridiculed by some of Pippen's peers who aren't afraid to say they've come to grips with the fact their careers peaked in the 1990s.

Conceding that he hasn't played any five-on-five basketball in months, Pippen said he still believes he's close to getting his conditioning where he believes it needs to be to endure the rigors of back-to-back games. He remains determined to go through with what should be the NBA's most compelling comeback since Michael Jordan came back from his second Bulls retirement and donned a blue-and-black Wizards jersey for the 2001-02 and 2002-03 seasons.

"I'm not quite feeling ready to get on the court. There are some physical things I want to do to make sure I can get over some obstacles," Pippen said.

Pippen said in an ideal situation, he would be playing 12-18 minutes a night for a championship contender, filling in at either guard spot or at the small forward position. He said he is not concerned about tarnishing his legacy, one that includes six championships as Jordan's sidekick in Chicago.

"There shouldn't be any 'what-ifs' at the end of the day," Pippen said.

Still, there are a lot of "What's up?" questions, so let's try to answer them, team by team.

Here are the teams that have expressed interest or might be interested in signing Pippen:

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