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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.
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.
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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.”
Vin Baker: Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman. You're talking about three of the top 75 players ever, but that doesn't take away again that doesn't take away from how great the Golden State Warriors are. There's different eras. The game is played differently. Do I think there were more stars in the '90s? Absolutely. The top 30 players in the 90s compared to the top 30 players today, I think the 90s would win.
The Dennis Rodman biopic has found a new Worm. LaKeith Stanfield has officially boarded 48 Hours in Vegas, a film chronicling the Chicago Bull's infamous trip to Las Vegas during the 1998 NBA Finals.
The movie was originally set to star Stanfield's The Harder They Fall castmate Jonathan Majors, who was dropped from the project less than a month after he was found guilty of one count of assault and one count of harassment in a 2023 domestic violence trial. Also joining the project: director Rick Famuyiwa, the filmmaker behind the 1999 coming-of-age movie The Wood and the 2002 rom-com Brown Sugar.
Robert Horry: “I told you a story about when all of a sudden the hand goes up and everybody like Dennis about to say some profound f*cking and he goes to tell Kurt, ‘This is the worst f*cking coaching job I ever seen in my life.’ Has Shaq ever told y’all that story? Oh my goodness, man. We had just got Dennis Rodman on the Lakers, right? Kurt Rambis had took over as coach and we’re in a locker room and you know usually you, you know, you know make halftime adjustments. Rodman ain’t said [__] to nobody. He been in like a month. All of a sudden he just does this little hand goes up and everybody’s like, ‘Okay, Rodman, say something.’ We all look like, ‘Oh, Rodman about to say something. Here we go.’ ‘This is the worst [] coaching job I ever seen in my life. Ain’t no [] adjustments on the board.’ And he just goes off. And we’re all like, damn. Well, tell us. And then the next day, Kurt threw him off the team. Eye for an eye.”
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N3ON: Who is the hardest player you ever had to guard? Dennis Rodman: The hardest player I had to guard… my lawyer. True story. No, I'm good. I know, James Worthy. How about that? James Worthy for the Lakers. N3ON: Damn. Interesting. Dennis Rodman: Always him.
Q: Who's considered the GOAT? Jordan or LeBron? Dennis Rodman: We know who that is, man. Jordan all day long. N3ON: What's your reasoning? Cuz I agree with you but chat gets mad at me when they say LeBron. Dennis Rodman: You can ask me anything on the planet. Guess what? People forgot about that one guy, man. That one guy that's called Kobe Bryant. People forget about him, man. They talk about everybody else. They don't talk about Kobe for some reason.
Cedi Osman, Omer Yurtseven, Shane Larkin, Onuralp Bitim, Kenan Sipahi, Furkan Korkmaz, and Trevonte Williams all spoke to Meridian Sport searching for the answer to who they’d bring in to “defend” against Jokic’s brilliance. Cedi Osman: “You caught me off guard. Very tough question… Right now no one can guard him, that’s for sure. But maybe I’d pick Dikembe Mutombo.” He added that Jokic will always get his numbers, so the goal is only to make it harder for him. Trevonte Williams, after asking Shane Larkin for help: Larkin said, “Dwight Howard! But from his younger days—when he was at his peak.” Williams agreed: “Not a bad choice. Maybe Howard, maybe Shaquille O’Neal, maybe Mutombo? Honestly, I don’t even know if anyone could guard him at all. Best hope is he gets sick the day of the game—that’s the only defense.” Furkan Korkmaz: “Very tough question… Dennis Rodman! That would be a real battle between the two.” Omer Yurtseven (without hearing Korkmaz’s answer): “I’d look for someone smaller but strong, so I’d say Rodman. He could play aggressive, get in front of him… If they lob over him, he’s fast enough to recover. He could take rebounds too. His only job on the team would be guarding Jokic.” Onuralp Bitim: “Not sure… I’d probably pick Wilt Chamberlain.” Kenan Sipahi wrapped it up: “Who can guard Jokic? Honestly, no one. I’ve thought about it a lot. Maybe Arvydas Sabonis senior, but honestly, it’s hard to imagine anyone.”
Rodman recently appeared on a live stream with popular social media influencer N3on and was asked who he believes is the GOAT. Rodman answered Jordan, before bringing up the fact that people seem to forget about Bryant and don’t talk about him nearly as much as they should: “We know who that is, Jordan all day long. Get mad at me all you want. Guess what? People forgot about that one guy. That one guy, that’s called Kobe Bryant. People forget about him. They talk about everybody else. They don’t talk about Kobe for some reason.”
