- Born
- Birth nameDennis Keith Rodman
- Nicknames
- The Worm
- Dennis the Menace
- Height2.01 m
- Dennis 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 (NBA). He was nicknamed "The Worm" and is famous for his fierce defensive and rebounding abilities.
Rodman played at the small forward position in his early years before becoming a power forward. He earned NBA All-Defensive First Team honors seven times and won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award twice. He also led the NBA in rebounds per game for a record seven consecutive years and won five NBA championships. His biography at NBA.com states that he is "arguably the best rebounding forward in NBA history". On April 1, 2011, the Pistons retired Rodman's No. 10 jersey, and he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame later that year.
In addition to being a retired professional basketball player, Rodman is a retired part-time professional wrestler and actor. He was a member of the nWo and fought alongside Hulk Hogan at two Bash at the Beach events. In professional wrestling, Rodman was the first ever winner of the Celebrity Championship Wrestling tournament. He had his own TV show, The Rodman World Tour (1996), and had lead roles in the action films Double Team (1997) and Simon Sez - Sauvetage explosif (1999). He also appeared in several reality TV series.- IMDb mini biography by: Tango Papa
- SpousesMichelle Moyer(May 13, 2003 - 2012) (divorced, 2 children)Carmen Electra(November 14, 1998 - April 6, 1999) (divorced)Annie Bakes(September 28, 1992 - 1993) (divorced, 1 child)
- ChildrenAlexis Rodman
- ParentsPhilander Rodman
- Different hair colors and wild behavior on and off the court
- Short-tempered, in later part of NBA Career
- Nose rings
- Towering height
- Despite being consistently listed as 6'8", even in his NBA career, and also often 6'9", in the media and press, he is actually only 6'6", by his own admission.
- Was only 5' 10" when he graduated high school.
- Did not play basketball in high school; however, while at Cooke County Jr. College, he walked on and played one season before dropping out and going to work as a janitor at an airport in Dallas. A recruiter from Southeastern Oklahoma State University who had seen him play that season saw him in the airport and invited him to try out for a basketball scholarship.
- Dennis's father, Philander Rodman, lives in the Philippines where he is father to at least 10 children.
- The first NBA player in history to win five championships with two different teams: Detroit Pistons (1989, 1990), and Chicago Bulls (1996, 1997, 1998).
- Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is ten, or something.
- [ tweeting from North Korea] Maybe I'll run into the Gangnam Style dude while I'm here.
- [on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un] He's my friend for life - I don't care what you guys think.
- Double Team (1997) - $2,000,000
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