Dennis Rodman
Dennis Rodman
Dennis Keith Rodman is an American retired professional basketball player, who played for the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and Dallas Mavericks in the National Basketball Association. He was nicknamed "The Worm" and was known for his fierce defensive and rebounding abilities...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth13 May 1961
CityTrenton, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
When they gave me that trophy, bro, I cried.
Wherever there's money, there's drugs, so to say drugs don't exist in the NBA would be stupid.
With me, everything's right on the table.
I felt like calling attention to AIDS. I had the AIDS ribbon colored into my hair during the playoffs in '95.
I went from five foot eleven to six foot eight, and the more ball I played, the more I caught on to the game.
I don't fit into the mold of the NBA man, and I think I've been punished financially for it.
I didn't want to be known as Madonna's playboy, her boy toy.
When a high-profile personality lives like I do, everybody thinks that person is fated to die young.
This whole huddle thing really pisses me off.
These people didn't know anything about black people, so the only thing they could imagine was the worst thing.
I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive.
The NBA believes if you play for a team and get paid by a team, you're the property of that team for 24 hours a day.
The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously.
The only time I'd played organized basketball was my sophomore year in high school, when I barely made the junior varsity team.