The Worm

Maybe Rodman’s legacy is to be a cautionary tale. I believe in redemption and if he is sincere, I hope he gets it. But if not, all we can really say is he did it to himself.

"Everyone knows I like to have a good time. I’ve looked death in the eyes. One day I’ll probably drink to a point where I won’t wake up."………..Its comments that like he made that make me feel sorry for him and his addiction to alcohol

Darren Prince, Rodman’s agent, says his client is out at bars and night clubs about three nights a week and Rodman has said he doesn’t want to change……Its comments like this that dont make me feel bad for him.
 

His agent also stated that if he sobered up that he could become a coach, most likely a rebounding coach in the NBA. But no one will take a chance on him  because theyre afraid he will either show up drunk, or not show up at all.

Hopefully he gets it together soon because he was one of the greatest and most intense players Ive ever seen, and I hate seeing great players and "icons" head down such a dark path after their NBA careers are over.

I can’t believe how he used to grab 16 to 18 rebounds every night.
He really put the Jordan-Pippen-Kukoc Bulls over the top. Before the Purdue/Rodman trade the Bulls got beat by The Shaq and Penny Magic. After Rodman shows up, the Bulls embarass
the Magic and win 3 straight titles.

He has no money to spend, no family to lean on, sad to see a man lose everything. It only gets depressing as he ages and get older.

How do you feel sad for someone that put themselves in that position?  

He was a millionaire, chose to spend it all.  

He became a father, decided to not play a part in his children’s lives.  

He chose the life he lived, he could have changed.

I don’t feel bad for people who had it all and decided to throw it away and regret it 20 years later.

 I agree with Tounge 23 dude.  Most people like me go through life living on $50,000 a year working 5 days a week and we see players like Rodman, Iverson and Antoine Walker who are blessed to have the athletic skills they do make millions a year and lose it all because of horrible immature decisions.  If they want to live the high life for a while they have to pay the consequences later in life when their income dries up

My thoughts really mirror TOL23’s, i’m a huge fan of the player but he can’t expect to live that kind of lifestyle and still be a familyman, it was one or the other and he chose to continue to endulge in alcohol, drugs, women etc, in every documentary about Rodman, he always says he’ll make it better and improve his family mentaility but then there are reports that he continues to party and seldom visits his family a day afterwards. The only way Rodman will get it, will be when it’s too late, whether he’ll have a serious incident after all the damage he has done to his body or he’ll become too old to realise it, Rodman won’t turn things around unless one of those two things happen.

I loved the on-court Rodman, i didn’t mind the off-court Rodman as people are entitled to live the life they should, but when there is a family involved and he’s using money on booze when those funds were designed fo his children, then there is a problem, i have no sympathy for his financial situation, he can blame ‘the paracites’ but he should be able to take care of his money and not throw it around everywhere, if he refused to pay for one of his posse’s drinks, so what? Somebody will replace that guy anyway, somebody that can pay for themselves. 

With all that said, at his center, Rodman is a nice guy but he’s had so much trauma in his life that he built this defense-mechanism to try and handle all the problems, every interview he has, you will experience a wide range of emotions. He passing the stress over to his bottle of drink or his joint, he parties that hard because he’s has so much stress that it’s the only way to forget about it. In his playing days, he was like that, he always played so hard and literally played every game like it was his last, it was an escape for him. It’d be great if he turned it around but he’s been doing this for so long, i question whether he’ll willingly do it or something will force him to stop.

 No love for Memphis Madness’ comment?  He was 100% right.  That 95-96 Bulls team was specifically built to beat the rising Orlando Magic who won the East the previous year and Rodman was a main piece to that puzzle.  A rejuvinated MJ was also a huge part, he wasn’t 100% himself in the 94-95 playoffs due to him being away from the game, but Rodman was a huge catalist for those 95-98 Bulls teams.

If you watched the 1995-96 ECF you got to see a 210 lb Dennis Rodman get in Shaq’s head and take him out of the series.  Shaq was still Shaq and produced fairly well, but he wasn’t his normal dominant self because Rodman just frustrated the hell out of him and made him work so much harder for everything he tried to do.

Rodman is just a sad story.  He’s a hard core alcoholic, plain and simple, and one that doesn’t seem to have the desire to change.