Hair neatly trimmed to his annual summer cut ("low maintenance"), shorts revealing a knee recuperating to near full strength after surgery, Scottie Pippen gazes out the bay window of his six-bedroom, 19,000-square-foot home in Portland's West Hills and smiles.

"If I were in Chicago, I would be looking at Lake Michigan," Pippen says. "And that's nice. But here, on the right day, I can look out at the view and see the sun set over the trees. That's pretty good, too."

For four years, Pippen and his wife, Larsa, have called Portland home. That soon may change. The veteran free agent, who left Monday for the family's vacation home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., must decide this summer if he wants to re-sign with the Trail Blazers, sign with another team, or retire.

Pippen, who turns 38 in September, says he is leaning toward the latter.