Oh, and there was the multicolored, creatively shaped hair, the wedding dress outfit to marry himself, leaving the Bulls during the 1998 NBA Finals for a WCW wrestling appearance, head butting a referee, kicking a cameraman and the eye, ear and nose piercings, too.
"There's no question about the fact this guy had a tremendous amount of talent for the game and changed the basketball concept," said Phil Jackson, the Hall of Fame Bulls and Lakers coach who will stand up for both Tex Winter and Rodman at their Hall of Fame inductions. "Most basketball players are bent on scoring and that end of the court. Dennis changed how players look at their game, how they can impact the game despite not scoring but by rebounding and defending. But he is kind of an enigma. No doubt, he was one of the most famous personalities in the last 20 years of basketball. Some of it hasn't always been good for basketball, though."
The one thing I do that nobody else does is jump three and four times for one rebound.!
