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It was a tough scene for Spurs fans after their Game 5 loss to the Knicks Saturday night. Tempers flared with one fan sporting a Dennis Rodman Spurs jersey. Video went viral of him trying to fight every Knicks fan in his immediate vicinity inside Moynihan Train Hall at Penn Station, shoving and chasing down multiple people while throwing a few punches before a police officer came over to try to calm him down. Cops then escorted the fan away while Knicks fans taunted him.
Austin Rivers: But if you want to talk about contributing players on championship runs, Hall of Fame help, when we talk about the Dennis Rodmans, Draymond Green's in that conversation. He is absolutely in that conversation and he has earned his right. But you don't ever see Dennis Rodman on a podcast talking about, ‘man, I should have shot the ball more. I don't know why they drew a place for Scottie Pippen. I don't get it. Phil Jackson hindered my career.’ Never. Never.
Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson: What was the situation with Jerry Krause and the Chicago Bulls? Tracy McGrady: You don’t know the type of obsession Jerry Krause had with me. It was ridiculous. He used to tell my agent, Arn Tellem, “Krause says he’s coming to get you when you’re a free agent.” He must’ve seen something in me. He tried to make things happen the night before the draft and again in 2000. Brandon “Scoop B” Robinson: What if that trade went through and you played with Michael Jordan and Dennis Rodman? Tracy McGrady: [shaking head] Nah. You’re talking about trading a Top 50 player [Pippen] for a rookie who’s not ready. It puts too much pressure on an 18-year-old. To be alongside MJ? Not a good look.
Included in that stretch is five straight games of at least 15 rebounds, which is the longest run by a Spurs player since Dennis Rodman in 1995, passing Tim Duncan's and David Robinson's career-best four-game streaks of 15 or more rebounds. "Wow," Victor Wembanyama said of the statistic. "I watched a lot of highlights [of Rodman], mostly on the Bulls than anything else. They don't make them like [him] anymore."
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Jordan Howenstine: Victor Wembanyama has 15+ rebounds for the fourth straight game - tying Tim Duncan and David Robinson’s longest streaks of their careers. Only Dennis Rodman has a longer streak with 15+ rebounds for the Spurs (7 streaks of 5+ games, longest 9 in a row).
Thanasis Antetokounmpo on getting drafted by the Knicks: I don't know why they drafted me because when I was sitting down they were asking me about players and they kept saying… because it was two sides. I don't know if people remember this, but it was two sides of the Knicks. It was the Knicks, the New York Knicks, Allan Houston, and everybody else that was like in the organization, and then it was the other side of the Lakers when Phil Jackson came. So, it was those two that when they were interviewing me, there was I remember vividly, I would sit down at the table and it was like the Lakers’ side and the Knicks’ side. They would ask me, you know, regular questions and it's like, hey, like, you know, where do you live? Do you have a spouse? Do you have kids? Like, no, no, all these other things. And the other people would ask me like, "What do you think about Dennis Rodman?" Like, "Oh, shoot. Okay. Yeah. What do you think about Trevor Ariza?" And then now looking back, I was like, "Oh, they were comparing me. They were trying to get me to say like, hey, because if I had said I don't really see myself like them, they’re not my style. I don't think I get drafted to the Knicks, because I love those players, you know, they would be like, and Shannon Brown and all these kind of like cats that were saying. I was like, "Oh, okay. I get what they're saying." And then, you know, I ended up getting drafted. One of, you know, one of the happiest moments in my life because I was very very worried. You know, when Giannis got drafted, I was like, "Wow, I got to make it. I got to do something for my family. I got to make sure we're good."
Robert Parish: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. To answer your question, his teammates didn’t challenge him. You can tell by how he looked at me, the deposition and stance that he took. There ain't nobody that challenged Michael. Michael had unchallenged power on that team. And rightly so. He was the main man. He should have had that. But, I just let him know that he's not the first superstar that I played with. Sh*t, Larry Bird was a superstar. I wasn't in awe of Michael Jordan. And I told him so. Sh*t, I played with a bad motherf*cker. Shit, Larry's one of the all-time greats. So why am I going to be in awe of Michael Jordan, may I ask? Let me give you a little context, how all that came about. The challenge, we scrimmage every day, when I was with the Bulls, same as when I was with the Celtics. So first, I was playing with the first team with Michael, Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman. And then Phil Jackson put me with the second unit and put Luc Longley back on the first unit. So we beat them four straight games. And so after the scrimmage was over, I asked Michael how did he like that ass whooping. So he took offense to that. [Laughing]
Basketball Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, sources told ESPN's Shams Charania on Friday. Rodman, a five-time NBA champion with the Detroit Pistons and Chicago Bulls, has a four-match pro wrestling career, with three of those coming in WCW. He made his WCW debut in 1997 and famously skipped a practice during the 1998 NBA Finals to appear on "WCW Monday Nitro," where he set up a tag team match in which he partnered with Hulk Hogan to face Diamond Dallas Page and Karl Malone.
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Robert Parish: Dennis (Rodman) was one of the nicest people you will ever meet on this planet. He’s just the opposite of the persona that he tries to live up to, like he’s crazy and deranged. He’s the best self-promoter since Muhammad Ali and Madonna. He finds more ways to keep himself in the spotlight than anyone. But he’s a sweetheart of a person. If he was crazy, he was crazy like a fox. Thinking back on the team, there’s only one day that comes to mind when things got a little heated in practice. It was between MJ and me. I started talking shit. For some reason, my last year in the league, I came out of my shell a bit. I’d never got my mouth running in any other season.
Hardaway entered the league in 1989 and hit his peak during much of the 1990s. Considering he was right there to witness Michael Jordan, for many, the greatest player to ever touch a basketball and the absolute ruler of that decade, “Tim Bug” sure knows a thing or two about His Airness. But when discussing a hypothetical one-on-one tournament, Hardaway claimed Jordan would get absolutely obliterated, or, in today’s lingo, cooked, if he participated. And Hardaway, well, he had his arguments. “Would Michael Jordan want (to participate)… And I love Mike, I love Kobe, I love everybody. And it’s not a knock on nobody, but how did Michael Jordan win MVP? Was it alone, or was it with a team?” the Hall of Famer argued in his recent appearance on the “Crossover Podcast.” “I’m talking about one-on-one, if it was one-on-one, he would get cooked. Cuz ain’t nobody there. Scottie Pippen ain’t coming there to block your shot. Luc Longley… he not coming over there and put his big body on you, and he would hurt you, too…Dennis Rodman, he ain’t coming there to take the charge,” Hardaway added.
Trinity Rodman has become the highest-paid player ever in women’s football after a controversial rule change allowed Washington Spirit to tie her to a new contract worth more than $1m a year. The 23-year-old forward and daughter of notorious NBA star Dennis Rodman has signed a three-year deal to remain in the NWSL, North America’s top women’s football league, and end fears she would be lured to a top European club.
Despite Dennis Rodman’s appearances, the Bears folded at the end of the season. In his book, Nurse writes about struggling to keep the team afloat, of “sleepless nights” as he struggled to pay staff. He wrote that he felt guilty until he saw the support he gained from British fans after winning the NBA championship with the Toronto Raptors in 2019, writing, “It gave me hope that they would remember the good times and forget about how it ended.” “Rodmania” proved British basketball could attract an audience. “It goes to show that with marketing and exposure, you can draw attention to the game,” Hildreth said. “I think some people thought it made a mockery of the league, but I look at it and say no publicity is bad publicity. For me personally, it was awesome because I played with Dennis Rodman.”
