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丹尼斯·罗德曼luó dé màn zài 1986 nián jiā rù NBA， bèi dǐ tè lǜ huósāi duì xuǎn zhōng， 1993 nián bèi jiāo huàn dào shèng 'ān dōng ní 'ào mǎ cì duì。 dàn tā de zhí yè shēng yá gāo fēng qī shì jiā rù zhī jiā gē gōng niú duì yǐ hòu， hé duì yǒu mài kě · qiáo dān jí sī kē dì · pí péng， wéi gōng niú wáng cháo zài 1996 nián zhì 1998 nián chuàng zào chū NBA zǒng guànjūn de sān lián guān。
NBA zhī qián de yè yú lán qiú shēng yá
luó dé màn shēngzhǎng zài dé kè sà sī zhōu de dá lā sī， zhǐ shì yīn wéi gāo zhōng qī jiān yòu yī nián shēn gāo cháng liǎo 27 gōng fēn 'ér yòu liǎo xiàng lán qiú yùn dòng fā zhǎn de xiǎng fǎ。 yóu yú shòu xiàn yú dé kè sà sī gān ní sī wéi 'ěr de kù kè jùn xué yuàn lán qiú xiǎo huán jìng， luó dé màn jiā rù liǎo měi guó xiào jì yùn dòng lián méng（ NAIA） chéng yuán de dōng nán 'é kè lā hé mǎ zhōu lì dà xué， zài dà xué lán qiú duì zhōng tā shì yī wèi chū sè de shè shǒu hé lán bǎn hǎo shǒu， dàn yě xíng chéng liǎo tā rì hòu de gǔ guài xíng wéi。
dǐ tè lǜ huósāi shí qī
dǐ tè lǜ huósāi jīng guò duì luó dé màn chōng fēn de guān chá zài 1986 nián NBA xuǎn xiù dà huì shàng dì 'èr lún zhāi xià liǎo tā。 zhè yī shí qī de huósāi duì hěn yòu fā zhǎn kōng jiān， qiú duì lǐng xiù zhù lì kòng qiú hòu wèi“ wēi xiào cì kè” yī sài yà · tuō mǎ sī， míng xīng jí dé fēn hòu wèi qiáo · dù mǎ sī， xiǎo qián fēng 'ài dé lǐ 'ān · dá tè lì， zhōng fēng bǐ 'ěr · lán bǐ 'ěr， hái yòu yī xiē duì qiú duì fēi cháng yòu bāng zhù de lán lǐng qiú yuán“ wēi bō” wēi ní · yuē hàn xùn， yuē hàn · sài lì hé lǐ kè · mǎ hóng， ér luó dé màn de dào lái kě yǐ jiāng qiú duì jiān qiáng de fáng shǒu dé dào jìn yī bù de bǔ chōng。 dàn shì huósāi zài 1987 nián de jì hòu sài zhōng bèi nán yǐ zhàn shèng de bō shì dùn kǎi 'ěr tè rén duì suǒ táo tài， jìn guǎn rú cǐ dàn luó dé màn zài bǐ sài zhōng duì kǎi 'ěr tè rén tóu hào qiú xīng lā lǐ · bó dé de fáng shǒu hái shì yòu zhe bù cuò de biǎo xiàn。
1988 nián luó dé màn sì hū zhǎn xiàn chū qí míng xīng qián zhì， fáng shǒu bǐ yǐ wǎng gèng chū sè， duō cì chōng chū qiú chǎng guǎng gào pái。 1989 nián tā de chéng jì dé dào liǎo rèn kě bèi dāng xuǎn wéi nián dù zuì jiā fáng shǒu qiú yuán， zhè shì tā lián xù liǎng nián duó dé cǐ jiǎng de dì yī cì。 tā zài zhè yī sài jì suǒ zhuā dé lán bǎn zài lán bǐ 'ěr zhī hòu liè quán duì dì 'èr， luó dé màn bāng zhù huósāi duì lián xù dì 'èr nián táo tài liǎo nián qīng de zhī jiā gē gōng niú bìng zuì zhōng duó dé liǎo qiú duì lì shǐ shàng dì yī zuò de NBA zǒng guànjūn。 zài zhī hòu de yī nián qíng kuàng rú chū yī zhé， huósāi zài dōng bù jué sài zhōng zài cì jī bài gōng niú bìng chán lián liǎo lián méng zǒng guànjūn， luó dé màn yě lián xù dì 'èr nián duó dé liǎo nián dù zuì jiā fáng shǒu qiú yuán de róng yù。
1991 nián luó dé màn dé dào lǐng xián quán duì de chǎng jūn 12.5 gè lán bǎn。 1992 nián luó dé màn qǔ dé liǎo bù kě sī yì de jìn bù， dé dào liǎo chǎng jūn 18 gè lán bǎn bìng qiě yíng dé liǎo tā huò dé de lián xù qī gè lán bǎn wáng tóu xián de dì yī gè。 1992 nián 3 yuè de yīcháng bǐ sài zhōng tā zhuā xià liǎo zhí yè shēng yá zuì gāo de 34 gè lán bǎn qiú。 1993 nián luó dé màn zài cì zài lán bǎn qiú shù shàng lǐng xián quán lián méng， zhè tóng shí yě shì tā wéi huósāi xiào lì de zuì hòu yī gè sài jì。
shèng 'ān dōng ní 'ào mǎ cì shí qī
zài shèng 'ān dōng ní 'ào mǎ cì， luó dé màn chí xù liǎo tā lán bǎn qiú fāng miàn de zhuān cháng shǐ dé qiú duì zhōng fēng dà wèi · luó bīn xùn yòng gèng duō de jīng lì fàng zài jìn gōng shàng， xié zhù luó bīn xùn qǔ dé liǎo 1993 – 94 sài jì quán lián méng dé fēn dì yī de tóu xián。 zài zhī hòu de yī gè sài jì， luó dé màn bāng zhù mǎ cì qǔ dé liǎo duì shǐ zuì jiā zhàn jì 62 shèng 20 fù， bìng qiě jìn rù liǎo xī bù jué sài， dàn shì xī bài gěi 'ào lā zhū wàng lǐng xián de xiū sī dūn huǒ jiàn duì， luó dé màn yǔ shí rèn mǎ cì zǒng jīng lǐ bō bō wéi qí de máo dùn yě fú shàng liǎo tái miàn。 bù lùn rú hé luó dé màn piào bó bù dìng de chǎng wài shēng huó zhú jiàn chéng wéi jiāo diǎn， qí zhōng bāo kuò liǎo hé zhù míng gē shǒu mài dāng nà de yī duàn duǎn zàn dàn shè huì guān zhù dù jí gāo de bàn lǚ guān xì； hái yòu yī xiē chǎng shàng gǔ guài de zào xíng， zài mǎ cì duì shí yòu zhe tài duō cì de biǎo xiàn， bǐ rú tóu fā rǎn sè de gǔ guài fàxíng。
gōng niú wáng cháo shí dài
suí zhe 1994-95 sài jì de dào lái， luó dé màn bèi jiāo yì dào liǎo zhī jiā gē gōng niú yǐ tián bǔ qiú duì dà qián fēng huò ruì sī · gé lán tè lí kāi suǒ zào chéng de wèi zhì dà kōng quē， mǎ cì duì huàn qǔ zhōng fēng wēi 'ěr · pǔ dù（ WillPerdue） hé qí tā de yōu huì。 1995-96 sài jì luó dé màn hé dì yī cì fù chū de qiáo dān lián shǒu jiāng gōng niú de shèng jì cóng qián yī nián de 47 shèng 35 fù dào 72 shèng 10 fù， tí gāo liǎo zhěng zhěng 25 chǎng bǐ sài de shèng lì。 zài zhī hòu de jì hòu sài zhōng gōng niú qīng sōng jī bài qí tā jìng zhēng duì shǒu duó qǔ liǎo NBA de zǒng guànjūn。 qiú duì zhōng de luó dé màn， qiáo dān hé pí péng dū róng dēng nà yī nián de quán míng xīng zuì jiā fáng shǒu dì yī zhèn róng， zhè yě shì NBA lì shǐ shàng dì yī cì yòu sān wèi tóng duì qiú yuán rù xuǎn tóng yī nián de zuì jiā fáng shǒu dì yī zhèn róng， luó dé màn lián xù dì wǔ nián zhuā dé quán lián méng zuì gāo de lán bǎn shù， duì yǒu qiáo dān de dé fēn zé shì quán lián méng zuì gāo de， zhè yě shì NBA lì shǐ shàng dì 'èr cì tóng yī gè duì de liǎng wèi qiú yuán duó dé quán lián méng de zuì gāo dé fēn hé lán bǎn qiú。 tā men zài zhī hòu de 1997 hé 1998 nián yòu liǎng cì chán lián liǎo zǒng guànjūn zài 10 nián nèi 2 cì qǔ dé 3 lián guān de wěi yè。
luó dé màn yǐ qiú chǎng chū gé de xíng wéi suǒ bèi dà jiā shú zhī， zhù míng de yòu 1996 nián 4 yuè 16 rì zài yīcháng bǐ sài zhōng yīn bù fú cái pàn TedBernhardt de pàn jué 'ér fā shēng zhēng zhí， zhī hòu tā tóu chuí Bernhardt， shì fā hòu rě qǐ liǎo bù xiǎo fēng bō， luó dé màn bèi lián méng fá kuǎn 25,000 měi jīn hé jìn sài wǔ chǎng。 lìng yī gè chǒu wén fā shēng zài 1997 nián 1 yuè 15 rì yǔ míng ní sū dá sēn lín láng duì de bǐ sài zhōng。 dāng shí luó dé màn zài yī cì pīn qiǎng lán bǎn guò chéng zhōng jiǎo xià bàn suàn zhuàng dào liǎo chǎng wài de shè yǐng shī EugeneAmos， shuāi dǎo hòu xīn cún bù mǎn de luó dé màn wǎng shè yǐng shī de fù gǔ gōu tī liǎo yī jiǎo。 jìn guǎn luó dé màn mǎ shàng bèi chù yǐ jì shù fàn guī yī cì， zuì hòu luó dé màn bèi chù yǐ bǔ cháng shè yǐng shī EugeneAmos sǔn shī fèi 200,000 měi jīn yǐ jí lián méng de 11 chǎng jìn sài， zhè shì dāng shí lián méng zuì cháng de jìn sài jì lù。
luó dé màn zài 1997-98 sài jì hòu lí kāi gōng niú duì， gōng niú yě yīn qiáo dān de dì 'èr cì tuì yì hé sī kē dì · pí péng de lí qù 'ér jìn rù liǎo chóngjiàn jiē duàn。 yǔ cǐ tóng shí luó dé màn yě jié shù liǎo tā zuì hòu yī gè zhòng yào de NBA sài jì， zhī hòu de tā zhǐ shì duǎn zàn yòu xiàn de chū xiàn zài qí tā de NBA qiú duì zhōng。 luó dé màn shì NBA90 nián dài zuì chū sè de zhuā lán bǎn zhě lián xù 7 nián qǔ dé lán bǎn wáng tóu xián， tā zài fáng shǒu fāng miàn zú yǐ yìng fù cóng mài kè 'ěr · qiáo dān、 sī kē dì · pí péng、 mó shù shī yuē hàn xùn hé lā lǐ · bó dé dào shā kuí 'ěr · ào ní 'ěr、 ā lún zuǒ · mò níng、 xiào 'ēn · kǎn pǔ、 kǎ 'ěr · mǎ lóng、 chá 'ěr sī · bā kè lì zhè yàng de qiú yuán。 zài 1996 nián dōng bù zǒng jué sài zhōng luó dé màn yòu zhe lìng rén yìn xiàng shēn kè de biǎo xiàn， dāng shí gōng niú duì duì zhèn 'ào lán duō mó shù duì， luó dé màn lín shí xìng de chōng dāng qián jǐ gè sài jì huò ruì sī · gé lán tè de juésè， yǐ 203 gōng fēn de shēn gāo 107 gōng jīn de tǐ zhòng qù duì kàng duì fāng 216 gōng fēn hé 150 gōng jīn de“ dà shā yú” ào ní 'ěr， chéng wéi zuì zhōng gōng niú héng sǎo duì shǒu duó qǔ dōng bù zǒng guànjūn de yī kē zhòng yào qí zǐ。
hòu gōng niú shí qī
luó dé màn lí kāi gōng niú hòu dāng liǎo yī duàn shí jiān de jì zhě， hòu jiē duàn céng duǎn zàn de xiào lì guò luò shān jī hú rén duì hé dá lā sī xiǎo niú duì， 2000 nián zuì hòu yī cì chū xiàn zài NBA qiú duì zhōng， yīn duō cì wú gù quē xí xùn liàn hòu bèi lè lìng lí duì， cǐ qián tā réng yòu chǎng jūn 14 gè lán bǎn de yōu yì biǎo xiàn。
zhí yè shēng yá jiǎng xiàng jí chéng jì
5 cì duó dé NBA zǒng guànjūn (1989,1990,1996– 98)
2 cì rù xuǎn NBA dì sān zhèn róng (1992,1995)
2 cì rù xuǎn NBA quán míng xīng sài (1990,1992)
7 cì rù xuǎn NBA quán míng xīng fáng shǒu zhèn róng (1989– 93,1995,1996)
1 cì rù xuǎn NBA quán míng xīng fáng shǒu dì 'èr zhèn róng (1994)
2 cì dāng xuǎn NBA zuì jiā fáng shǒu qiú yuán (1990,1991)
7 cì róng dēng NBA sài jì chǎng jūn quán lián méng lán bǎn shù dì yī（ 1992– 98， chán lián ７ cì）
4 cì róng dēng NBA sài jì zǒng lán bǎn shù dì yī (1992– 94,1998)
6 cì róng dēng NBA jìn gōng lán bǎn zǒng shù dì yī (1991– 94,1996,1997)
3 cì róng dēng NBA fáng shǒu lán bǎn zǒng shù dì yī (1992,1994,1998)
1 cì róng dēng quán lián méng tóu lán mìng zhōng shuài zuì gāo (1989)
NBA tuì yì zhī hòu
cóng NBA chū lái de luó dé màn píng tā de xīng qù zài yī xiē lán qiú xiǎo lián méng fā huī fā huī yú rè， 2003 nián tā jiā méng liǎo měi guó ABA xiǎo lián méng de tí huá nà lóng duì（ TijuanaDragones）； zhī hái jiā méng guò yīng guó lán qiú lián sài de bù lāi dùn xióng duì（ BrightonBears） yě jiù dǎ liǎo 2 chǎng bǐ sài； 2005 nián tā jiā méng liǎo fēn lán lán qiú lián sài de TorpanPojat duì tā shǒu chǎng bǐ sài chū chǎng 28 fēn zhōng， dé dào 17 fēn 6 gè lán bǎn yī gòng 13 cì wéi qiú duì chū chǎng， zhǐ yào luó dé màn chū chǎng， qiú chǎng shì měi chǎng bào mǎn； 2006 nián 1 yuè 26 rì， luó dé màn yǔ bù lāi dùn xióng duì yòu qiān dìng liǎo yī nián hé tóng， zài NBA tuì yì zhī hòu fā huī yī xià yú rè。
qí tā shì yè
tā de shēn shàng huà yòu zhòng duō wén shēn hé chuān kǒng hé jīng cháng jiāng zì jǐ de tóu fā rǎn chéng xiān yàn de rén gōng sè。
luó dé màn hé kǎ mén · yī lāi kè tè lā yòu zhe yī duàn duǎn zàn de hūn yīn， zhù míng de shēn chuān hūn shā zài gōng gòng chǎng hé chū xiàn lái xuān chuán tā de gè rén zìzhuàn BadasIWannaBe,ISBN0-440-22266-4。 luó dé màn yíng dé guò ABC diàn shì tái zhēn shí diàn shì jié mù CelebrityMole yóu kǎ tǎn bàn dǎo jí de huò shèng zhě bìng qiě yíng dé 22 wàn měi jīn de jiǎng lì， lìng rén jīng qí de shì zài xiù qī jiān tā jīhū shì tuō gǎo bù zuò shénme bèi 'àn de， yòu shí huì xiě yī xiē jiǎn dān de nèi róng zài yī xiē cān jīn zhǐ shàng。
tā yě tóng mài dāng nà yòu guò qīn mì de guān xì， zài tā de dì yī běn zìzhuàn zhōng xuān chēng mài dāng nà céng jīng zhù dòng hé tā cháng shì“ zào rén” jìhuà。
zhí yè shuāi jiāo
luó dé màn cān jiā liǎo duō chǎng de WCW shuāi jiāo bǐ sài， tā hé tā de hǎo péng yǒu zhù míng shuāi jiāo míng xīng hā kè · huò gēn zǔ chéng liǎo NWO tuán tǐ。
tā de dì yīcháng bǐ sài shì zài 1997 nián de 7 rì de BashAttheBeach sài shì， luó dé màn hé tā de dā dàng huò gēn shū gěi liǎo LexLuger hé PaulWight。 tā kuà yùn dòng de chū xiàn zài gōng niú duì hé shuāi jiāo chǎng shàng， rě nù liǎo lán qiú mí hé gōng niú duì zhù jiào liàn fěi 'ěr · jié kè xùn， jiēguǒ tā de zhèyīháng wéi dé dào liǎo NBA lián méng de chǔfèn。
1998 nián luó dé màn hé huò gēn lián shǒu dǎ bài liǎo kǎ 'ěr · mǎ lóng hé shuāi jiāo míng xīng dá lā sī · pèi qí zǔ hé， tā zài TotalNonstopActionWrestling zhōng zuì hòu yī cì chū xiàn zài shuāi jiāo chǎng shàng， yóu yú zài bǐ sài zhōng luó dé màn jī běn shàng qǐ bù dào shénme zuò yòng cóng 'ér yǐn qǐ liǎo dà pī guān zhòng de jī xiào。 zài tā shuāi jiāo qī jiān tā zài shuāi jiāo tái shàng zhǐ zhǎn shì liǎo qí wēi bù zú dào de shuāi jiāo jì shù。
yǎn yuán shēng yá
1997 nián luó dé màn pāi shè liǎo tā de shǒu bù dòng zuò cháng piàn fǎn jī wáng（ huò yì shuāngchóng fǎn jī， DoubleTeam）， zhè bù diàn yǐng zhōng tā hé shàng · kè láo dé · fàn · dài mǔ dā dàng。 zhè bù diàn yǐng 'è píng bù duàn， yě gěi luó dé màn zhēng qǔ dào liǎo 3 xiàng jīn suān méi jiǎng： zuì chā xīn xīng， zuì zāo gāo pèijué， zuì zāo gāo yín mù zǔ hé（ yǔ dài mǔ fēn xiǎng）。 luó dé màn tóng yàng zài diàn yǐng mó guǐ qí shì（ huò yì gé dǒu fǎn jī wáng ／ chāo qiáng huǒ lì， SimonSez） zhōng chū xiàn， zhī hòu luó dé màn hái xiāng jì chū yǎn guò Zack， sǐ huò shēng： shā tān pái qiú 2 hé diàn shì jù wài xīng rén bào dào。
luó dé màn shì jiè xún yǎn
zài 1996 nián， dān ní sī · luó dé màn yōng yòu zì jǐ de MTV xiàn shí tuō kǒu xiù jié mù jiào zuò luó dé màn shì jiè xún yǎn（ TheRodmanWorldTour）， jié mù shì yī gè yòu luó dé màn tè sè de yī xì liè gǔ guài de jìng yù， bǐ rú luó dé màn zài tā de chuáng shàng cǎi fǎng jiā bīn。
míng rén suǒ shì
dān ní sī · luó dé màn céng yǔ mài dāng nà yòu guò yī duàn duǎn zàn de qíng lǚ guān xì
céng jīng hé yóu tā jué shì de NBA qiú xīng kǎ 'ěr · mǎ lóng cān jiā guò WCW shuāi jiǎo bǐ sài
yǔ shàng · kè láo dé · fàn · dài mǔ hé zuò yǎn chū guò diàn yǐng， qí fēi kē bān chū shēng de chàjìn yǎn jì shòu dào méi tǐ de cháo xiào， yě wéi tā qǔ dé liǎo 3 xiàng jīn suān méi jiǎng。
Experiencing an unhappy childhood, Rodman was shy and introverted in his early years. After aborting a suicide attempt in 1993, he reinvented himself as the prototypical "bad boy" and became notorious for numerous controversial antics. He dyed his hair in artificial colors, presented himself with many piercings and tattoos and regularly disrupted games by clashing with opposing players and officials. He famously wore a wedding dress to promote his autobiography. Rodman pursued a high-profile affair with singer Madonna and was briefly married to actress Carmen Electra.
Apart from basketball, Rodman is a part-time professional wrestler. He was a member of the nWo and fought alongside Hulk Hogan at two Bash at the Beach events. He had his own TV show, The Rodman World Tour, and had lead roles in the action films Simon Sez and Double Team alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme. Both films were severely critically panned, with the latter earning Rodman a triple Razzie Award. He appeared in several reality TV series and was the winner of the $222,000 main prize of the 2004 edition of Celebrity Mole. Rodman also won the first ever Celebrity Championship Wrestling tournament.
Early life and education
Dennis Rodman was born in Trenton, New Jersey, the son of Shirley and Philander Rodman Jr., an Air Force pilot and veteran of the Vietnam War. When he was three, his father deserted his family and went on to eventually father 27 children with four different women. Shirley subsequently took many odd jobs—at times, four at the same time—to support her family. In his 1997 biography Bad As I Wanna Be, he expresses his disgust for his father: "I haven't seen my father in more than 30 years, so what's there to miss... I just look at it like this: Some man brought me into this world. That doesn't mean I have a father." The impoverished Rodman and his two sisters, Debra and Kim, grew up in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, Texas, considered one of the worst areas of Dallas in those times, Rodman was so attached to his mother that he refused to move when she sent him to a nursery when he was four years old. According to Rodman, Shirley Rodman was more interested in his two sisters Debra and Kim, who were both considered more talented than him in basketball, and made him a laughingstock whenever he tagged along with them. He felt generally "overwhelmed" by the all-female household. Debra and Kim would go on to become All-Americans at Louisiana Tech and Stephen F. Austin respectively.
When Rodman experienced his growth spurt, he became even more withdrawn because he felt odd in his own body. Rodman was so insecure around women that he thought he was homosexual in his teens, was still a virgin when he was 20 years old, and eventually had his first sexual experience with a prostitute; he described this as an unpleasant experience.
While attending South Oak Cliff High School, Rodman played under future Texas A&M coach Gary Blair. However, Rodman was not considered an athletic standout. According to himself, he was "unable to hit a layup" and was listed in the high school basketball teams, but was either benched or cut from the squads. Measuring only 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) as a freshman in high school, he also failed to make the football teams and was "totally devastated". After finishing school, Rodman worked as an overnight janitor at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. He experienced a sudden growth spurt, and decided to give basketball another shot.
A family friend tipped off the head coach of Cooke County College in Gainesville, Texas. In his single semester there, he averaged 17.6 points and 13.3 rebounds, before flunking out due to poor academic performances. After his short stint in Gainesville, he transferred to Southeastern Oklahoma State University, an NAIA school. There, Rodman was a three-time NAIA All-American and led the NAIA in rebounding in both the 1984–85 and 1985–86 seasons. In three seasons there, 1983–84 through 1985–86, he averaged 25.7 points and 15.7 rebounds, led the NAIA in rebounding twice and registered a .637 field goal percentage. He averaged over 25 points per game for his three-year NAIA career. At the Portsmouth Invitational, a pre-draft camp for NBA hopefuls, he won Most Valuable Player honors and caught the attention of the Detroit Pistons.
During this time, Rodman worked at a summer youth basketball camp, where he befriended camper Byrne Rich, who was shy and withdrawn, following from a hunting accident in which he mistakenly shot and killed his best friend. The two became almost inseparable, and formed a bond. Rich invited Rodman to his rural Oklahoma home; at first, Rodman was not well-received by the Riches due to being an African-American. But, the Riches were so grateful to him for bringing their son out of his shell that they were able to set aside their prejudices. Although Rodman had severe family and personal issues himself, he "adopted" the Riches as his own in 1982 and went from the city life to "driving a tractor and messing with cows." Rodman credits the Riches as his "surrogate family" that helped him through college.
Basketball career
Detroit Piston
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Rodman made himself eligible for the 1986 NBA Draft. He was drafted by the Detroit Pistons as the 27th pick in the second round, joining the rugged team of coach Chuck Daly that was called "Bad Boys" for their hard-nosed approach to basketball. The squad featured Isiah Thomas and Joe Dumars at the guard positions, Adrian Dantley and Sidney Green at forward, and center Bill Laimbeer. Bench players who played more than 15 minutes per game were sixth man Vinnie Johnson and the backup forwards Rick Mahorn and John Salley. Rodman fit well into this ensemble, providing 6.5 points, 4.7 rebounds and some tough defense in 15.0 minutes of playing time per game. Winning 52 games, the Pistons comfortably entered the 1987 NBA Playoffs. They swept the Washington Bullets and soundly beat the Atlanta Hawks in five games, but bowed out in seven matches against their archrivals Boston Celtics in what was called one of the physically and mentally toughest series ever. Rodman feuded with Celtics guard Dennis Johnson, taunting him in the closing seconds by waving his right hand over his head. When the Celtics took Game Seven, Johnson went back at Rodman in the last moments of the game and mimicked his taunting gesture. After the loss, Rodman made headlines by directly accusing Celtics star Larry Bird of being overrated because he was white: "Larry Bird is overrated in a lot of areas. ...Why does he get so much publicity? Because he's white. You never hear about a black player being the greatest." Although teammate Thomas supported him, he endured harsh criticism, but avoided being called a racist because, according to him, his own girlfriend Anicka "Annie" Bakes was white.
In the following 1987–88 season, Rodman steadily improved his stats, averaging 11.6 points and 8.7 rebounds and starting in 32 of 82 regular season games. The Pistons fought their way into the 1988 NBA Finals, and took a 3–2 lead, but lost in seven games against the Los Angeles Lakers. In Game Six, the Pistons were down by one point with eight seconds to go; Dumars missed a shot, and Rodman just fell short of an offensive rebound and a putback which could have won the title. In Game Seven, L.A. led by 15 points in the fourth quarter, but Rodman’s defense helped cut down the lead to six with 3:52 minutes to go and to two with one minute to go. But then, he fouled Magic Johnson, who hit a free throw, missed an ill-advised shot with 39 seconds to go, and the Pistons never recovered. In that year, his girlfriend Annie bore him a daughter named Alexis.
After just falling short of an NBA title, Rodman entered the 1988–89 season. Still coming off the bench, he averaged nine points and nine rebounds in 26 minutes, providing such effective defense that he was voted into the All-Defensive Team, the first of eight times. In that season, the Pistons finally vanquished their playoffs bane by sweeping the Boston Celtics, winning in six games versus the Chicago Bulls of scoring champion Michael Jordan and easily defeating the Lakers with 4–0 in the 1989 NBA Finals. Although he was hampered by back spasms, Rodman dominated the boards, grabbing 19 rebounds in Game 3 and providing tough interior defense.
In the 1989–90 season, Detroit lost perennial defensive forward Rick Mahorn due to the expansion draft of the Minnesota Timberwolves. It was feared that the loss of Mahorn – average in talent, but high on hustle and widely considered a vital cog of the "Bad Boys" teams – would diminish the Pistons’ spirit, but Rodman seamlessly took over his role. He went on to win his first big individual accolade. Averaging nine points and 10 rebounds and starting in the last 43 regular season games, he established himself as the best defensive player in the game; during this period, the Pistons won 59 games, and Rodman was lauded by the NBA "for his defense and rebounding skills, which were unparalleled in the league". For his feats, he won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award; he also connected on a .595 field goal percentage, which made him the most precise shooter of the league. In the 1990 NBA Playoffs, the Pistons beat the Bulls again, and in the 1990 NBA Finals, Detroit met the Portland Trail Blazers. Rodman suffered from an injured ankle and was often replaced by Mark Aguirre, but even without his defensive hustle, Detroit beat Portland in five games and claimed their second title.
After winning his second NBA championship ring, Rodman entered the 1990–91 season. In that year, he finally established himself as the starting small forward of the Pistons. He played such strong defense that the NBA stated he "could shut down any opposing player, from point guard to center". After coming off the bench for most of his earlier years, he finally started in 77 of the 82 regular season games, averaged 8.2 points and 12.5 rebounds and won his second Defensive Player of the Year Award. In the 1991 NBA Playoffs however, the Pistons were swept by the championship-winning Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference Finals. It was the 1991–92 season where Rodman made a remarkable leap in his rebounding, collecting an astounding 18.7 rebounds per game (1,530 in total), winning his first of seven consecutive rebounding crowns, along with scoring 9.8 points per game, and made his first All-NBA Team. His 1,530 rebounds (the most since Wilt Chamberlain's 1,572 in the 1971–72 season) have never been surpassed since then; the best mark not set by Rodman is credited to Kevin Willis, who grabbed 1,258 boards in 1992–93. In a March 1992 game, he totaled a career high 34 total rebounds. However, the aging Pistons were eliminated by the upcoming New York Knicks in the First Round of the 1992 NBA Playoffs.
Rodman experienced a tough loss when coach Chuck Daly resigned in May, whom he had admired as a surrogate father; Rodman skipped the preseason camp and was fined $68,000. The following 1992–93 season was even more tumultuous. He finally married Annie Bakes in September 1992, the mother of his four year old daughter Alexis, but the marriage went sour quickly and Bakes divorced him in December, an experience which left him traumatized. The Pistons won only 40 games and missed the 1993 NBA Playoffs entirely. One night in February 1993, Rodman was found asleep in his car with a loaded rifle. Four years later in his biography As Bad As I Wanna Be, he confessed having thought about suicide and described that night as an epiphany: "I decided that instead [of killing myself] I was gonna kill the impostor that was leading Dennis Rodman to a place he didn't want to go... So I just said, 'I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it and be happy doing it.' At that moment I tamed [sic] my whole life around. I killed the person I didn't want to be." Although he had three years and $11.8 million remaining on his contract, Rodman demanded a trade. On October 1, 1993, the Pistons dealt him to the San Antonio Spurs.
San Antonio Spur
In the 1993–94 NBA season, Rodman joined a Spurs team which was built around perennial All-Star center David Robinson, with a supporting cast of forwards Dale Ellis, Willie Anderson and guard Vinnie Del Negro. On the hardwood, Rodman now was played as a power forward and won his third straight rebounding title, averaging 17.3 boards per game along with a career-low 4.7 points, but yet another All-Defensive Team call-up. Living up to his promise of killing the "shy imposter" and "being himself" instead, Rodman began to show first signs of bizarre behaviour: before the first game, he shaved his hair and dyed it blonde, which was followed up stints with red, purple, blue hair and a look inspired from the film Demolition Man. During the season, he headbutted Stacey King and John Stockton, refused to leave the hardwood once after being ejected, and had a highly-publicized two month affair with Madonna. The only player to whom Rodman related was reserve center Jack Haley, who won his trust by not being shocked after a visit to a gay bar. However, despite a 55-win season, Rodman and the Spurs did not survive the First Round of the 1994 NBA Playoffs and bowed out against the Utah Jazz in four games.
In the following 1994–95 NBA season, Rodman clashed with the Spurs front office. He was suspended for the first three games, took a leave of absence on November 11, and was suspended again on December 7. He finally returned on December 10 after missing 19 games. After joining the team, he suffered a shoulder separation in a motorcycle accident, limiting his season to 49 games. Normally, he would not have qualified for any season records for missing so many games, but by grabbing 823 rebounds, he just surpassed the 800-rebound limit for listing players and won his fourth straight rebounding title by averaging 16.8 boards per game and made the All-NBA Team. In the 1995 NBA Playoffs, the 62-win Spurs with reigning NBA Most Valuable Player Award winner Robinson entered the Western Conference Finals and were considered favorites against the reigning champions Houston Rockets who had only won 47 games. It was thought that Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwon would have a hard time asserting himself versus Robinson and Rodman, who had both been voted into the NBA All-Defensive Teams. However, neither Robinson nor Rodman, who had disrupted a playoff game against the Lakers by sitting down on the court, could stop Olajuwon, who averaged 35.3 points against the elite defensive Spurs frontcourt, and helped eliminate the Spurs in six games.
Rodman admitted his frequent transgressions, but asserted that he lived his own life and thus a more honest life than most other people: "I just took the chance to be my own man... I just said: 'If you don't like it, kiss my ass.' ...Most people around the country, or around the world, are basically working people who want to be free, who want to be themselves. They look at me and see someone trying to do that... I'm the guy who's showing people, hey, it's all right to be different. And I think they feel: 'Let's go and see this guy entertain us.'"
Chicago Bull
The United Center, home of the Chicago Bulls. Rodman wrote history in the 1996 NBA Finals when he twice secured 11 offensive rebounds in this building, tying an all-time NBA record.
Prior to the 1995–96 NBA season, Rodman was traded to the Chicago Bulls of perennial scoring champion Michael Jordan for center Will Perdue and cash considerations to fill a large void at power forward left by Horace Grant, who left the Bulls prior to the 1994–95 season. Although the trade for the already 34 year old and volatile Rodman was considered a gamble at that time, the power forward quickly adapted to his new environment, helped by the fact that his best friend Haley was also traded to the Bulls. Under coach Phil Jackson, he scored an average of 5.5 points and 14.9 rebounds per game, winning yet another rebounding title, and was part of the great Bulls team that won 72 of 82 regular season games, an all-time NBA record. About playing next to iconic Jordan and hard-working Scottie Pippen, Rodman said: "On the court, me and Michael are pretty calm and we can handle conversation. But as far as our lives go, I think he is moving in one direction and I'm going in the other. I mean, he's goin' north, I'm goin' south. And then you've got Scottie Pippen right in the middle. He's sort of the equator." Although struggling with calf problems early in the season, Rodman grabbed 20 or more rebounds 11 times and had his first triple-double against the Philadelphia 76ers on January 16, 1996 scoring 10 points and adding 21 rebounds and 10 assists; by playing his trademark tough defense, he joined Jordan and Pippen in the All-NBA Defense First Team, making it the first time that three players from the same NBA team made the All-NBA Defensive First Team. Ever controversial, Rodman made negative headlines after a head butt of referee Ted Bernhardt during a game in New Jersey on March 16, 1996; he was fined $20,000, a punishment that was criticized as too lenient by the local press. In the 1996 NBA Playoffs, Rodman scored 7.5 points and grabbed 13.7 rebounds per game and had a large part in the six-game victory against the Seattle SuperSonics in the 1996 NBA Finals: in Game Two at home in the Bulls' United Center, he grabbed 20 rebounds, among them a record-tying 11 offensive boards, and in Game Six, again at United Center, the power forward secured 19 rebounds and again 11 offensive boards, scored five points in a decisive 12–2 Bulls run, unnerved opposing power forward Shawn Kemp and caused Seattle coach George Karl to say: "As you evaluate the series, Dennis Rodman won two basketball games. We controlled Dennis Rodman for four games. But Game 2 and tonight, he was the reason they were successful." His two games with 11 offensive rebounds each tied the NBA Finals record of Elvin Hayes.
In the 1996–97 NBA season, Rodman won his sixth rebounding title en bloc with 16.7 boards per game, along with 5.7 points per game, but failed to rank another All-Defensive Team call-up. However, he made more headlines for his notorious behaviour: on January 15, 1997, he was involved in another incident during a game against the Minnesota Timberwolves. After tripping over cameraman Eugene Amos, Rodman kicked Amos in the groin. Though he was not assessed a technical foul at the time, he ultimately paid Amos a $200,000 settlement, the league suspended Rodman for 11 games without pay, thus he effectively lost $1 million. Missing another three games to suspensions, often getting technical fouls early in games and missing an additional 13 matches due to knee problems, Rodman was not as effective in the 1997 NBA Playoffs, in which the Bulls reached the 1997 NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz. There, he struggled to slow down Jazz power forward Karl Malone, but did his share to complete the six-game Bulls victory.
It was during this time that Rodman seriously took up his hobby of professional wrestling: he appeared in World Championship Wrestling as a member of nWo with his friend Hulk Hogan. His first match was at the July 1997 Bash at the Beach event where he teamed with Hogan in a loss to Lex Luger and The Giant.
The regular season of the 1997–98 NBA season ended with Rodman winning his seventh consecutive rebounding title with 15.0 boards per game, along with 4.7 points per game. He grabbed 20 or more rebounds 11 times, among them a 29-board outburst against the Atlanta Hawks and 15 offensive boards (along with ten defensive) versus the Los Angeles Clippers. Led by the aging Jordan and Rodman (respectively 35 and 37 years old), the Bulls reached the 1998 NBA Finals, again versus the Jazz. After playing strong defense on Karl Malone in the first three games, he caused major consternation when he left his team prior to Game Four to go wrestling with Hulk Hogan. He was fined $20,000, but it was not even ten percent of what he earned with this stint. However, Rodman’s on-court performance remained top-notch, again shutting down Malone in Game Four until the latter scored 39 points in a Jazz Game Five win, bringing the series to 3–2 from the Bulls perspective. In Game Six, Jordan hit the decisive basket after a memorable drive on Jazz forward Bryon Russell, the Bulls won their third title en bloc and Rodman his fifth ring.
In the off-season, Rodman and Malone squared off again, this time in WCW wrestling at the July 1998 edition of ’’Bash at the Beach’’. He fought alongside Hulk Hogan, and Malone tagged along with Diamond Dallas Page. In a poorly-received match, the two power forwards exchanged "rudimentary headlocks, slams and clotheslines" for 23 minutes.
Rodman garnered as much publicity for his public antics as he did for his basketball playing. He dated Madonna and claimed she tried to conceive a child with him. Shortly after, Rodman famously wore a wedding dress to promote his autobiography Bad As I Wanna Be, claimed that he was bisexual and that he was "marrying himself". In November 1998, he married Carmen Electra in a state of intoxication, and the marriage was invalidated after just 10 days.
Twilight year
After the 1997–98 NBA season, the Bulls started a massive rebuilding phase, largely at the behest of then-general manager Jerry Krause. Head coach Phil Jackson and several members of the team left via free agency or retirement, including Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Steve Kerr and Jud Buechler. Rodman remained with the Bulls for several months during the 1998–99 season, but did not play in any games with the team during and was finally released by the team on January 21, 1999. With his sister acting as his agent at the time Rodman joined the Los Angeles Lakers, for a pro-rated salary for the remainder of the 1998–99 season. With the Lakers he only played in 23 games and was released. In the 1999–2000 NBA season, the then 38 year old power forward was signed by the Dallas Mavericks, meaning that Rodman returned to the place where he grew up. For the Mavericks, he played 12 games, was ejected twice and alienated the franchise with his erratic behavior until he was waived again; Dallas guard Steve Nash commented that Rodman "never wanted to be [a Maverick]" and therefore was unmotivated.
NBA career statistic
† NBA Championship
Led the league
Bold Denotes career high
GP Games played GS Games started MIN Minutes per game
FG% Field-goal percentage 3P% 3-point field-goal percentage FT% Free-throw percentage
OFF Offensive rebounds per game DEF Defensive rebounds per game REB Total rebounds per game
AST Assists per game STL Steals per game BLK Blocks per game
TOV Turnovers per game PF Fouls per game PTS Points per game
Average
Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1986–87 Detroit Pistons 77 1 15.0 .545 .000 .587 4.3 .7 .5 .6 6.5
1987–88 Detroit Pistons 82 32 26.2 .561 .294 .535 8.7 1.3 .9 .5 11.6
1988–89† Detroit Pistons 82 8 26.9 .595 .231 .626 9.4 1.2 .7 .9 9.0
1989–90† Detroit Pistons 82 43 29.0 .581 .111 .654 9.7 .9 .6 .7 8.8
1990–91 Detroit Pistons 82 77 33.5 .493 .200 .631 12.5 1.0 .8 .7 8.2
1991–92 Detroit Pistons 82 80 40.3 .539 .317 .600 18.7 2.3 .8 .9 9.8
1992–93 Detroit Pistons 62 55 38.9 .427 .205 .534 18.3 1.6 .8 .7 7.5
1993–94 San Antonio Spurs 79 51 37.8 .534 .208 .520 17.3 2.3 .7 .4 4.7
1994–95 San Antonio Spurs 49 26 32.0 .571 .000 .676 16.8 2.0 .6 .5 7.1
1995–96† Chicago Bulls 64 57 32.6 .480 .111 .528 14.9 2.5 .6 .4 5.5
1996–97† Chicago Bulls 55 54 35.4 .448 .263 .568 16.1 3.1 .6 .3 5.7
1997–98† Chicago Bulls 80 66 35.7 .431 .174 .550 15.0 2.9 .6 .2 4.7
1998–99 Los Angeles Lakers 23 11 28.6 .348 .000 .436 11.2 1.3 .4 .5 2.1
1999–2000 Dallas Mavericks 12 12 32.4 .387 .000 .714 14.3 1.2 .2 .1 2.8
Career 911 573 31.7 .521 .231 .584 13.1 1.8 .7 .6 7.3
Playoffs 169 89 28.3 .490 .149 .540 9.9 1.2 .6 .6 6.4
All-Star 1990, 1992 2 0 18.0 .364 — — 8.5 .5 .5 .5 4.0
Post-NBA year
In 2005, Rodman played for Torpan Pojat of Finland's basketball league, the Korisliiga.
After his NBA career, Rodman took a long break from basketball and concentrated on his film career and on wrestling. In 1999, he fought "Macho Man" Randy Savage at Road Wild 1999 in which Savage shoved him in a portable toilet and eventually won the match. On July 30, 2000 for the i-Generation Superstars of Wrestling pay-per-view event, he fought against i-Generation Champion Curt Hennig. The event was subtitled Rodman Downunder. Rodman refrained from wrestling at the top level, but instead became Commissioner of the Lingerie Football League in 2005.
After a longer hiatus, Rodman returned to play basketball for the Long Beach Jam of the newly-formed American Basketball Association during the 2003–04 season, with hopes of being called up to the NBA midseason. In the following 2004–05 season, he signed with the ABA's Orange County Crush and the following season with the league's Tijuana Dragons. The return to the NBA never materialized, but on January 26, 2006, it was announced that Rodman had signed a one-game "experiment" deal for the UK basketball team Brighton Bears of the British Basketball League to play Guildford Heat on January 28, and went on to play three games for the Bears. In spring 2006, he played two exhibition games in the Philippines along with NBA ex-stars Darryl Dawkins, Kevin Willis, Calvin Murphy, Otis Birdsong and Alex English. On April 27, they defeated a team of former Philippine Basketball Association stars in Mandaue City, Cebu and Rodman scored five points and grabbed 18 rebounds. On May 1, 2006, Rodman's team played their second game and lost to the Philippine national basketball team 110–102 at the Araneta Coliseum, where he scored three points and recorded 16 rebounds.
In 2005, Rodman made two visits in Finland. At first, he was present at Sonkajärvi in July in a wife-carrying contest. However, he resigned from the contest due to health problems. In November, he played one match for Torpan Pojat of the Finland's basketball league, Korisliiga.
That same year, Rodman published his second autobiography I Should Be Dead By Now and promoted this by sitting in a coffin.
Awards, records and achievement
Main article: List of career achievements by Dennis Rodman
Legacy
^ Active NBA player
* Enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame
Top career rebounding averages since 1973
Player Height Minutes per
game Offensive
rebounds Defensive
rebounds Total
rebounds Game
played Rebounds per
game
Dennis Rodman 6'6" 31.7 4,329 7,625 11,954 911 13.1
Dwight Howard^ 6'11" 35.7 1,817 4,629 6,446 510 12.6
Moses Malone* 6'10" 33.9 6,731 9,481 16,212 1,329 12.2
Charles Barkley* 6'6" 36.7 4,260 8,286 12,546 1,073 11.7
Tim Duncan^ 6'11" 36.2 3,070 8,463 11,533 999 11.5
Top rebounding seasons since 1973
Season Player Team Rebound
per game
1991–92 Dennis Rodman Detroit Pistons 18.7
1992–93 Dennis Rodman Detroit Pistons 18.3
1973–74 Elvin Hayes* Capital Bullets 18.1
1978–79 Moses Malone* Houston Rockets 17.6
1993–94 Dennis Rodman San Antonio Spurs 17.3
1975–76 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* Los Angeles Lakers 16.9
1994–95 Dennis Rodman San Antonio Spurs 16.8
1996–97 Dennis Rodman Chicago Bulls 16.1
From the beginning of his career Rodman was known for his defensive hustle, which was later accompanied by his rebounding prowess. In Detroit, he was mainly played as a small forward, and his usual assignment was to neutralize the opponent's best player; Rodman was so versatile that he could guard centers, forwards or guards equally well and won two NBA Defensive Player of the Year Awards. From 1991 on, he established himself as one of the best rebounders of all time, averaging at least 15 boards per game in six of the next seven years. Playing power forward as member of the Spurs and the Bulls, he had a historical outburst in the 1996 NBA Finals: he twice snared 11 offensive rebounds, equalling an all-time NBA record. In addition, his personal best 34-rebound game on March 4, 1992 is the third best board-grabbing performance since the 1972–73 season, topped only by a 35-rebound game by Charles Oakley on April 22, 1988 and a 37-rebound game by Moses Malone on February 9, 1979.
On offense, Rodman's output was mediocre. He averaged 11.6 points a game in his sophomore season, but his point average steadily dropped: in the three championship seasons with the Bulls, he averaged five points per game and connected on less than half of his field goal attempts. His free throw shooting (lifetime average: .584) was considered a big liability: on December 29, 1997, Bubba Wells of the Dallas Mavericks committed six intentional fouls against him in only three minutes, setting a record for the fastest foul out in NBA history. This was Dallas coach Don Nelson's early version of what would later develop into the famous "Hack-a-Shaq" method that would be implemented against Shaquille O'Neal and other poor free throw shooters. The intention was to force him to attempt free throws, which in theory would mean frequent misses and easy ball possession without giving up too many points. However, this plan backfired, as Rodman hit nine of these 12 attempts.
In 14 NBA seasons, Rodman played in 911 games, scored 6,683 points and grabbed 11,954 rebounds, translating to 7.3 points and 13.1 rebounds per game in only 31.7 minutes played per game. NBA.com lauds Rodman as "arguably the best rebounding forward in NBA history and one of the most recognized athletes in the world" but adds "enigmatic and individualistic, Rodman has caught the public eye for his ever-changing hair color, tattoos and unorthodox lifestyle". On the hardwood, he was recognized as one of the most successful defensive players ever, winning the NBA championship five times in six NBA Finals appearances (1989, 1990, 1996–8; only loss 1988), being crowned NBA Defensive Player of the Year twice (1990, 1991) and making seven NBA All-Defensive First Teams (1989–93, 1995, 1996) and NBA All-Defensive Second Teams (1994). He additionally made two All-NBA Third Teams (1992, 1995), two NBA All-Star Teams (1990, 1992) and won seven rebounding crowns (1992–98) and finally led the league once in field goal percentage (1989). However, he was recognized as the prototype bizarre player, stunning basketball fans with his artificial hair colors, numerous tattoos and body piercings, multiple verbal and physical assaults versus officials, frequent ejections, and his tumultuous private life. He was ranked #48 on the 2009 revision of SLAM Magazine's Top 50 Players of All-time.
Media appearance
Dennis Rodman, 2001
In 1996, Rodman had his own MTV reality talk show called The Rodman World Tour, which featured him in a series of odd-ball situations. This show was produced by Patrick Byrnes and written by Tom Cohen and Matt Price. A year later, he made his feature film debut in the action film Double Team alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme. The film was critically panned and his performance earned him three Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst New Star, Worst Supporting Actor and Worst Screen Couple (shared with Van Damme). Rodman starred in Simon Sez, a 1999 action/comedy and co-starred with Tom Berenger in a 2000 action film about skydiving titled Cutaway. In 1998, he joined the cast of the syndicated TV show Special Ops Force, playing 'Deke' Reynolds, a flamboyant but skilled ex-Army helo pilot and demolitions expert.
In 2005, Rodman, a long-time vegetarian, became the first man to pose naked for PETA's advertisement campaign "Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur".
Since then he has appeared in few acting roles outside of playing himself. Rodman voiced Zack, a character resembling him, in Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball. He has made an appearance in an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun playing the character of himself, except being a fellow alien with the Solomon family. He also appeared in several reality soaps: in January 2006, Rodman appeared on the fourth version of Celebrity Big Brother in the UK, and on July 26, 2006, in the UK series Love Island as a houseguest contracted to stay for a week. Finally, he appeared on the show Celebrity Mole on ABC. He wound up winning the $222,000 grand prize. Rodman was the winner of Hulk Hogan's Celebrity Championship Wrestling title defeating other challengers such as Butterbean and Dustin Diamond.
In 2008, Rodman joined as a spokesman for a sports website OPENSports.com, the brainchild of Mike Levy founder and former CEO of CBS Sportsline.com. Rodman also writes a blog and occasionally answers members' questions for OPEN Sports.
In 2009, he appeared as a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice. Throughout the season, each celebrity raised money for a charity of their choice; Rodman selected the Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Orleans. He was the fifth contestant eliminated, on March 29, 2009.
Personal life
In 1999 Rodman met Michelle Moyer, who became his new girlfriend. Moyer bore him two children: a son, D.J. (born 2000), and a daughter, Trinity (born 2001). Moyer and Rodman married in 2003 on his 42nd birthday. After settling down in Newport Beach, California, the police appeared over 70 times at his home because of loud parties.
In July 2000, Rodman pled guilty to drunken driving and driving without a valid license after an arrest in December 1999. He paid $2,000 in fines and was required to attend a three-month treatment program. In April 2004, Rodman pled nolo contendere to drunken driving in Las Vegas and was fined $1,000 and served 30 days of home detention.
On April 30, 2008, Rodman was arrested following a domestic violence incident at a Los Angeles hotel. On June 24, 2008, he pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor spousal battery charges and was sentenced to one year of domestic violence counseling and three years probation. He received 45 hours of community service, which were to involve some physical labor activities.
Rodman entered drug rehabilitation in May 2008. In May 2009, his misbehavior on Celebrity Apprentice led to an intervention which included Phil Jackson as well as Rodman's family and other friends. Rodman initially refused to enter rehabilitation because he wanted to attend the Celebrity Apprentice reunion show. Rodman agreed to appear on the third season of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. Commenting on Rodman's detachment from the rehabilitation process, Dr. Drew Pinsky, who treated him, commented that Rodman was "hyper-focused in some ways, and in others, completely blank," and observed that Rodman did not comprehend what the other patients were experiencing, or how they perceived him. Pinsky concluded that Rodman may have Asperger's syndrome, a diagnosis with which a colleague from UCLA Medical Center concurred. The show premiered on January 10, 2010, and on that same day, Rodman was removed from an Orange County, California restaurant for disruptive behavior.
Rodman has cited Pearl Jam as his favorite band and befriended them in the mid-1990s. During their No Code Tour, on September 26, 1996, he briefly came onstage to the excitement of the crowd and gave frontman Eddie Vedder a piggyback ride. Rodman later received a Walkman carved with Vedder's initials and containing the concert recording. He has since cited this as one of his most thrilling experiences and claimed, "If it wasn't for Pearl Jam, my life would be a hell of a lot less fulfilling." Not long after, Rodman also gave his unworn #69 Lakers jersey to Eddie Vedder, and he cited Pearl Jam song lyrics in his 1996 autobiography, Bad As I Wanna Be. In I Should Be Dead By Now, Rodman said that he had found a new favorite band in Rascal Flatts.
Book
Rodman, Dennis (1994). Rebound: The Dennis Rodman Story. ISBN 0-517-59294-0.
Rodman, Dennis (1996). Bad as I Wanna Be. ISBN 0-440-22266-4.
Rodman, Dennis (1997). Walk on the Wild Side. ISBN 0385318979.
Rodman, Dennis (2005). I Should Be Dead by Now. ISBN 1596700165.