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Rodman was a quitter. When things got too tough he bailed.
Everybody called Robinson soft but that label should have gone to Rodman.
Can't get much softer than quitting on your team when they need you most.
It just occurred to me that both the winningest coach in NBA history and the winningest coach in college basketball history both have military backgrounds. I wonder if that's a coincidence.
Rodman was a quitter. When things got too tough he bailed.
Everybody called Robinson soft but that label should have gone to Rodman.
Can't get much softer than quitting on your team when they need you most.
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That Rodman spurs jersey is fire
He’s ____ (insert Rodman here). He does what ___ (Rodman) does.
Pop has strong personality and would make players do what he wants, until what you prove to him that what your own way wins ball games. Then maybe he’ll let you slide. But in Rodman’s case, Pop probably just saw him as a rotten egg. An older and more experienced Pop could’ve probably done differently.
What's funny is for all his hair dyes and wearing wedding dresses and all his other , Dennis Rodman is a footnote to footnotes in NBA history. He's like his pal Madonna, barely remembered. What he's most known for now is his bizarre and stupid friendship with the murderous North Korean dictator.
Meanwhile, Popovich is so widely respected, the basketball HOF keeps asking him to join and he keeps turning them down.
An older, more experienced Pop would never have made the mistake that the previous front office did in trading for him in the first place.
Rodman for all his antics is a HOFer and member of the 75 Greatest, on top of all his defensive, rebounding accolades. I don’t think anyone would give a good account of the history of the NBA without mentioning his name. His personality is bizarre, but the guy was a baller.
Yeah pop was trying to help him out. Just look at how that half a tranny turned out. He wanted to be a rebellious teenage girl instead coming out with a new hair color every week.
It worked well in that the Spurs won 62 games. They were top 5 defense and offense in 95. Plus they were very entertaining to watch from a non spur's fan POV.
What they needed was someone like Phil to deal with those complex personalities.
This brings back memories. He’s right in the sense that Pop didn’t like him and that he wasn’t a good fit culturally. Think everyone knows that by now. But let’s not forget that Rodman literally quit on the Spurs in the ‘95 WCF because he wasn’t happy with how the series was going… Rodman was a tough personality to deal with. He and David were a bad fit together, both in personality and it style of play, and it was best for both parties to move on after the ‘95 season.
Did he really make the top 75? That's stupid. He just managed to get on an all-time Bulls team and was a good role-player on the Bad Boys. He's a character but he's not an all time player. That's just ESPN hype.
Meanwhile younger fans know him about as well as they know Mitch Richmond.
Yeah Pop and his views.
Rodman was angry with the Spurs going back to the previous season when they wouldn't renegotiate his contract. He made snide remarks about the Spurs GM "Bill Bass or whatever the his name is". He was rumored to have gambling debts and money issues. Many of us that were around during this time believe Rodman intentionally did his best to throw that championship series.
Rodman is well known even among young 20 year olds due to his celebrity status. I don't' respect him but his celebrity status is the reason why he was able to get the 75 greatest and HOF when he didn't deserve it.
That's not contrarian (<---- that's contrarian). That's just trolling.
Rodman hasn’t had celebrity status in 20 years, other than in North Korea.
In fairness, the player we traded for in Detroit was not the one that arrived in San Antonio. My opinion: we wanted a scrappy, hard as nails player to play alongside Robinson, who was generally seen as too nice and wouldn't get dirty. So, we bring in Rodman. Rodman didn't have any of the weird in his personal life bleeding into the tabloids in Detroit. He was crazy ON the court, but not off of it.
The summer before he was traded, he tried to kill himself in his car in the parking lot at the Palace. After that, he made some self-empowering pact with himself to be his true self and be free and never apologize for who he is, or some version of that inspirational self talk. He shows up in San Antonio with the same goofy haircut that Wesley Snipes had in some movie at the time. As time went on, it became obvious that Rodman was more invested in things off the court, then on the court. Yes, he still rebounded like crazy, but it was basically masturbatory and at the expense of being a team player, as he refused to shoot the ball, even when he had a layup. So yeah, his self indulgence never ended. In his second year, the team pulled a coup in trading to get Ninja Sean Elliot back, but it fell apart in the playoffs, and Rodman was dumped.
That's my recollection. I'm sure others will see it differently.
He still a celebrity and lives off of his fame. That's how he makes all of his money today.
I think they were a great fit together on the court, that 95 team might be my favorite Spurs team to watch ever and they would would have been my favorite Spurs team for sure if they had rang. Back in the days when some playoff and even some regular season games were Pay Per View only but I had a hot box so it was all good.
Last edited by SayTown; 03-24-2022 at 02:06 AM.
I haven't kept up with Pippen since Rachel Nichols' version of 'The Jump' was cancelled. What is he up to now?
This episode of Pawn Stars, of Rodman’s ex-wife selling his signed jerseys is funny
Had a book out recently (haven't read it), where he apparently badmouthed Jordan, Bulls, etc. Basically trying to stay relevant and make some money from his book by spouting headliner material stuff.
Whether some of you old men like it or not the guy is still a pop culture icon. Earlier this week I noticed some hipster rapper chilling with Kanye wearing a Rodman t-shirt. The youth love him.
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