Dennis Rodman's Last Dance
The Lead
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🗓️ 22 May 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
After winning a championship with the Chicago Bulls in 1998, Dennis Rodman closed out his NBA career two years later with the Dallas Mavericks, a team that had been the laughing stock of the league for quite some time. It was a short, strange period during which Rodman lived in new team owner Mark Cuban's guest house and attracted unusual groups of fans to games. The Athletic's Saad Yousuf joins us to discuss how and why Rodman ended up with one of the league's worst teams and the bizarre way in which his career came to an end.
Read Saad Yousuf and Tim Cato's oral history of Dennis Rodman's time in Dallas:
https://theathletic.com/1819520/2020/05/18/dennis-rodmans-last-dance-the-oral-history-of-the-worms-month-with-mavericks/?source=theleadpodcast
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| 0:00.0 | I wonder how. |
| 0:07.5 | Michael and Scott have accepted me for who I am. |
| 0:10.5 | And I say, you know what? |
| 0:11.9 | He does what he does, but he cares a lot. |
| 0:16.6 | I go party, have a hard work hard. |
| 0:19.3 | And I think that we get lost so well because we want to win. |
| 0:22.2 | We want to win a championship. |
| 0:24.4 | During the last dance, the world got to remember the enigma |
| 0:28.0 | that was Dennis Rodman. |
| 0:30.2 | But a lot of people probably don't remember what came next |
| 0:33.3 | in his career. |
| 0:35.6 | After winning a championship with the Bulls in 1998, |
| 0:38.6 | Rodman moved to the Lakers and then ended up |
| 0:41.0 | with a team that had been the laughing stock of the league |
| 0:44.0 | for a really long time, the Dallas Mavericks. |
| 0:47.6 | Today, the athletic side, Yusuf, joins us |
| 0:50.0 | to discuss Rodman's bizarre month-long stint in Dallas. |
| 0:54.0 | At a time when Mark Cuban was a brand new owner |
| 0:56.0 | and Dirk Navitsky had just entered the league |
| 0:58.4 | and how the worm briefly transformed the franchise. |
| 1:02.2 | All these people with color hair, piercing, |
| 1:05.6 | it started coming to our games. |
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