Inside Dennis Rodman's Wild 90s

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4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Dennis Rodman. Loved and hated by basketball and pop culture fans alike, he's known for his off-court antics perhaps more than his success with the Chicago Bulls. ESPN's Tim Keown got a super up-close view when he helped write Rodman's 1996 autobiography, "Bad as I Wanna Be." As the Rodman-focused installment of the docuseries "The Last Dance" debuts, Keown tells the story of his weeks living with Rodman, and what he learned. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Rodman battling to the rebound, saving it in, and Kora snatches it out of the air, and
0:07.6	throws him.
0:09.0	Scott Lillop.
0:10.4	I think Micah had a lot of confidence in me to knowing that I'm going to be there for him.
0:14.8	I'm not going to let them down.
0:15.7	Am I going to let the team down?
0:17.1	I'm going to let the city down.
0:22.8	That was the one and only Dennis Rodman,
0:25.8	describing his impact on the Chicago Bulls
0:28.2	during Sunday's episode of Last Dance.
0:30.8	It was one of the most unlikely fits in basketball history,
0:34.3	sharing the floor with the sports ultimate control freak,
0:37.1	Michael Jordan.
0:38.2	But somehow it worked.
0:40.7	Today, we talked to a reporter who knew Rodman better than most because he lived with the NBA
0:46.5	star for two weeks during the height of his fame.
0:50.1	ESPN's Tim Kuhn joins us to relive the wild 90s and explains why Rodman was unlike any player or person he had ever met.
0:59.7	I'm Minicimes. It's Monday, April 27th. This is ESPN Daily.
1:05.6	So, Tim, did you watch last night?
1:07.4	I did. Thank you for doing your duty as an ESPN employee. Tim Kewen is a senior
1:13.4	writer for ESPN. Tim, I am looking at a cover of the book, Bad as I Want to Be, and it has a
1:20.7	picture of Dennis Rodman. He is naked. He is sitting backwards on a motorcycle. There is a
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