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Dennis Rodman Bio: Professional basketball player Dennis Rodman
was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on May 13, 1961. A second-round draft pick in 1986 in
the NBA draft, Rodman went on to become one of the league's dominant all-time rebounders.
He helped lead the Detroit Pistons and later the Chicago Bulls to multiple championships.
He was inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame in 2011.
Dennis Keith Rodman was born on May 13, 1961 in Trenton, New Jersey. Rodman was the product
of an unstable household. Early in his life, his father, Philander, abandoned his wife,
Shirley and his young family, which included Dennis and his two young sisters.
After Philander left, Rodman's mother moved the family to Dallas where she struggled to
keep her children fed and clothed by taking almost any odd job that came her way.
Curiously, Rodman didn't at first appear to be all that athletic or outward going. He
was short for most of high school, just 5-6, and was cut from his high school football
team and later quit the basketball team because he wasn't getting enough playing time.
After graduating high school in 1979, Rodman's future appeared uncertain. He found work where
he could, including a janitor position at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. In his off-time,
though, he could be found at local basketball courts, where the now 6-7 player, was a force.
Through a family friend, Rodman's exploits soon caught the attention of the coaches at
Cooke County Junior College in Gainesville, Texas, who offered Rodman the chance to attend
the school. He accepted and to nobody's surprise, proved to be a dominant player for the program.
But Rodman couldn't keep up with the schoolwork and after a year, flunked out. Still, his
play hadn't gone unnoticed, and he was soon invited to enroll at Southeastern Oklahoma
State. Rodman's on-the-court tenacity overwhelmed
opponents, and during his three years at the school he averaged close to 26 points and
16 rebounds per game. In the 1986 NBA draft, the Detroit Pistons made the gangly but overly
athletic 25-year-old Rodman a second round pick.
NBA Success The marriage between the Pistons and Dennis
Rodman was, for a number of years, a great one. Rodman's arrival helped usher in a new
era in Pistons basketball. Led by head coach, Chuck Daly, whom Rodman came to adore, and
point guard Isiah Thomas, Detroit became one of the elite teams in the NBA. The club won
the championship in 1989 and again in 1990. Rodman was a big reason why. A fierce defender
and tenacious rebounder, Rodman was selected to the 1990 NBA All-Star team and tapped as
defensive player of the year that same season. In 1992 he won the first of seven consecutive
rebounding crowns. In 1993, following the retirement of Daly,
Rodman's relationship with the Pistons organization soured and he was traded to the San Antonio
Spurs. Prior to the 1995-96 season, Rodman was traded again, this time to the Chicago
NBA titles.
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