Here is a bonus post for today. Bad As I Wanna Be was written in 96. It starts off with a Pearl Jam quote as a full page.
Rodman's younger sisters were 6” and 6”2’ and both all Americans. Dennis played half a season of JV and graduated at 5”11’. He then grew 9” in about a year and then played some JuCo but failed out of school. The coach from NAIA Southeastern Oklahoma U knocked on his door and convinced him to play for them at the tiny white town of Durant. He faced a ton of racism at first but he lived with a white farming family and learned to deal with.
After getting drafted he gets to play with Isaiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Vinnie Johnson, Bill Laimbeer, Rick Mahorn, Adrian Dantley, John Salley and a great coach in Chuck Daly. They won back to back championships in 89 and 90 but don’t forget the were up 3 with less than a minute to play in game 7 against the Lakers when they a phantom call to Laimbeer for fouling Kareem when he was not within 2 feet of him. Jabaar hits both free throws, the Pistons miss and LA hits. Game. I loved the Bad Boys. You have to remember this was the time of Magic and Larry, no last names neede.
During this time he has a daughter Alexis. They don’t get married until the daughter is 4 in 1992. It only lasts 82 days.
He discusses his time in San Antonio where he complains about not having his contract renegotiated because he led the league in rebounding for 4 years in a row and that attendance was up after the trade. He goes on to dis Commissioner David Stern ,Grant Hill and Gregg Popovich the GM of San Antonio.
He spends a chapter explaining about his prowess as the top rebounder in the NBA. The rest of the book is devoted to his view on race relations, availability of sex as an NBA player, his apparent “bisexuality” and Madonna. He says “She wasn’t an acrobat, but she wasn’t a dead fish either.” I told that quote to my wife and she said who Ms A (don’t want to give out the name sorry, maybe ask Margaret she lives in the same hood). I said who is that? Apparently Dennis was coming over to Windsor to have some hanky panky in my wife’s old hood.
He then uses the back chapter or so to rip on David Robinson, Sean Elliot, Coach Bob Hill and his favourite target GM Greg Popovich. He uses the last chapter discussing moving to the Chicago Bulls and playing with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen.
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