Dennis Rodman has added another unbelievable chapter to the Bulls’ 72-win season, and this one comes straight from a night that went completely off the rails.
On the Above The Rim podcast, Rodman said he spent the night partying until 5 a.m. and wound up missing a Bulls game after an all-night run that started in New York and ended in Atlantic City.
“I had such a goddamn good time. I was at a strip club in New York, and then I loved the strip club.
Then I went to a strip club in Atlantic City. I went to Atlantic City.
I hit the strip club. I was with her, and then I had her a** come on to play some f***ing dice.
Then I sat down and started playing dice all f***ing night.”
“Next thing you know, I forgot what time it was. I said, ‘Oh s**t, I got a game.’
It’s five o’clock. We got there.
It’s 5 a.m. in the goddamn morning. I missed the f***ing game.
Having a really good time. Having a real good time.”
According to Rodman, the Bulls had seen enough of that kind of behavior that the response was almost routine.
“They got so used to me doing stuff like that. They said, ‘Don’t worry about it.
We’ll just fly you on a private plane back to Chicago.’ No, they got so used to me doing stuff like that.”
The story fits the Rodman legend perfectly. During the 1995-96 season, while Chicago was building one of the greatest records in NBA history, he was also one of the league’s most talked-about personalities away from the court. But the chaos never kept him from producing when it mattered.
That Bulls team went 72-10 and finished the job by beating the Seattle SuperSonics in the NBA Finals for the franchise’s fourth title. Rodman was a major piece of that run, leading the NBA in rebounding for the fifth straight season and anchoring an elite defense with Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen. He averaged 5.5 points, 14.9 rebounds and 2.5 assists, shot 48.0% from the field and earned All-Defensive First Team honors.
Phil Jackson and the Bulls were known to give Rodman a little more room than most players, believing that approach helped him stay at his best on the floor.
And even now, long after his playing days, Rodman keeps finding ways to make headlines with stories like this one. On the same podcast, he said that if social media had existed in the 1990s, he would have been a billionaire.
He also stirred things up recently at Fanatics Fest, where he said LeBron James would have been the easiest player he ever had to guard, explaining that he would force the NBA’s all-time leading scorer left and turn him into a jump shooter.
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