Dennis Rodman’s basketball career was probably the most memorable of anyone that had just one season in which he averaged double digits in the scoring column. The flamboyant one’s induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fames proves that stats aren’t everything, though.
Dennis Rodman Enters Basketball Hall Of Fame As Five-Time NBA Champion
Rodman was able to put together a 14-year career, including 12 great ones split between the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs and Chicago Bulls, before cameos with the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas Mavericks at the tail end of his time in the NBA.
Considering that the Worm was an undersized power forward who played his college basketball at Southeastern Oklahoma State, the feats he accomplished in the NBA were quite impressive.
Rodman won five NBA championships -- three with the Bulls during their second threepeat and two with the Detroit Pistons before he’d started dying his hair -- while leading the league in rebounding seven seasons in a row and picking up a pair of Defensive Player of the Year awards to go with his All-Star game invites early in his career. In reality, he probably deserved even more accolades during his career, but the Hall of Fame induction at least validates how valuable he was.
Possibly more importantly, however, he was famous for being able to get into the head of the opposing team’s best player as he had memorable on-court spats with Karl Malone, Shaquille O’Neal and quite a few others that would eventually concentrate more on what Rodman was doing rather than leading their team to victory.
Off the court, Rodman was as eccentric as anyone who’s ever played the game as he’d wear dresses, date Madonna and Carmen Electra and wrestle in the WCW whilst staying as dominant as one who rarely scores can be when it came time to play basketball.
There wasn’t a player like him before, and probably won’t be ever again, which makes the Worm a worthy Hall of Fame inductee.
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