The Last Dance Part 3: Rodman heading to Vegas! Dennis Rodman is stealing the spotlight, as he is talking about his journey with the Bulls and with the Pistons. The Bulls had their franchise player Jordan, trusty sidekick Pippen, and rough and tough rebounder Rodman.
Rodman is truly an unique basketball player, besides his interesting life-style. He is a tremendous defensive player, mainly for his rebounding skills.
Today, I will be breaking down the top five takeaways that happened in the Last Dance Part 3: Rodman heading to Vegas!
5. Rodman taking pride into accomplishments with the Bulls
Rodman was deep into his 30’s when he joined the Bulls, but did that stop him from paying aggressive? Nope. He was battling like no one else’s business, and was still playing defense and trash talking a lot even in his old age.
Dennis Rodman is a seven-time rebounding champion, plus winning five championships. Rodman even got to lockdown the Bulls, including Jordan, when he was with the Pistons. When he was with the Pistons they implied the Jordan Rules, this was to knock down Jordan and not letting him take a shot.
It’s funny, he played ruthless against the Bulls to then joining them to win more championships. Rodman definitely had a interesting career with the Bulls.
Rodman takes so much pride into the accomplishments of what him and the Bulls have done. So much pride and joy in it that he believes that without him none of this could have came to reality.
Here’s the full quote:
I created this monster,” Rodman said in a recent video interview, referring to his wild persona. “Nobody could say anything bad about me as a teammate. If you take me away from this [Bulls] team, do they still win a championship? I don’t think so.”
4. Journeys through childhood for Rodman
From Scottie Pippen’s journey to the NBA began his childhood with poverty is the same thing that is happening to Rodman. Rodman had high, serious poverty in his childhood.
Tons of bad things were happening in his city, neighborhood, and wherever else Rodman may have gone. You had drug dealers, people trying to take drugs, Rodman was surprised he didn’t do any of that stuff. He also said he could have been dead before making his iconic basketball career.
“I lived in the street for two years,” he said in an interview. “I could have been a drug dealer. I could have been dead. I don’t know why I never did that drug stuff, but I never did. I’d just sit there and watch them do it.”
Life for him has always been interesting because he was trying to figure out who he was, plus trying not to get involved with all the bad things that were going on in his childhood.
None of the less, this led to Rodman having aggressiveness on the court when playing defense. Needless to say, it paid off.
3. Rodman career with the “Bad Boys”
When Dennis Rodman landed in the second round of the NBA Draft, doubts might have been settling in about weather or not his career would have been any good.
It didn’t matter though as he was selected by the Pistons, the Pistons were known as the “Bad Boys.” Why? Because it was the way they were playing. they only knew how to play one way. Playing aggressive.
The Pistons had a very dominant team built around Isiah Thomas, the Bad Boys couldn’t stop being aggressive especially with Rodman on their side.
This was building into something bigger as rivalries of the Bulls and Pistons were boiling over the edge. This is when the Jordan Rules came into play and it worked for numerous years during the playoffs, this left a permanent hatred for the Pistons. Michael Jordan hated this team because they could never beat them until a few years later in time.
“I hated them,” Jordan said in a recent interview. “That hate carries even to this day. They made it personal. They physically beat the —- out of us.”
2. Who needs a vacation? MJ does!
The best part to this episode of the Last Dance Documentary is when Rodman was asking for a vacation in January because of the mental health issues buzzing around him. Jordan was warning the front office that if you let him go on a trip to Vegas you will never see him again.
“If anybody needs a vacation, I need a vacation. If you let this dude go on vacation, we are not going to see him. If you let this dude go to Vegas, we are definitely not going to see him.”
Rodman’s like he’ll take whatever the front office offers him, so he went to Vegas but on a deal for two days only. Did that turn out to be only two days? Maybe, maybe not. That comes in episode four.
Isn’t it crazy that out of all the players that would need to take a break it would be Rodman? Not Scottie or Jordan, but Rodman. But, hey, at least he asked for permission before leaving. It would have been more funny to see him leave then tell Jordan and the front office, I wonder hat their response and facial expressions would have been at that time and moment.
1. Rodman is limitless when in Vegas
As a cliff-hanger until episode four, we see that Rodman is living it up in Vegas before doing something that could have killed him or seriously injuring himself.
Before the documentary episode ended, footage showed that Rodman drank a whole can of beer before hopping onto a motorcycle to go who knows where. It was just him on the motorcycle no one else.
Why would he think that would be such a smart idea? Truth be told it was either going to be the cops or Jordan telling Rodman how stupid and foolish that is.
This is how episode three of Dennis Rodman continues into the next episode, him drinking a beer than riding on a motorcycle to somewhere down in Vegas.
Conclusion:
The man that has done a lot of weird, interesting, and astonishing things in his life and career has gotten his own episode documented after him. He has had some crazy life stories that not to many people can say they’ve done.
On the court he is something else, he is a guy you didn’t want to mess with. He would dive for the ball with no care. Rodman did all this to help his team win games and be the best team in the league.
Remember if you don’t want any more spoilers to the Last Dance Documentary than I advise you to stop reading these. Because I hate for someone’s episode to get ruined.
The next episode will be wrapping up on Dennis Rodman and moving into more exciting events during the Bulls run, to be honest you do not want to miss the next episode.
Thank you for reading The Last Dance Part 3: Rodman heading to Vegas!
