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Adding former Bull Horace Grant and Isaiah Rider to the team, Lakers fans were optimistic for another smooth run to the NBA Finals. Jackson had successfully tamed Dennis Rodman, transforming the former Detroit bad-boy into another cog in his well-oiled triangle offense that yielded six championships to the Bulls in the 1990s. Surely, he could handle Rider and tap the tremendous talent beneath his troubled past...
Unfortunately, the Zen master overestimated his abilities. Rodman, for all of his foibles and transgressions off the court, was a fierce competitor with an intense desire to win. But Rider is a spoiled wild child, unwilling to give up his ways for the good of the team. Needless to say, this distraction-along with the ongoing Shaq-Kobe feud-has proved costly, as the Lakers still seem to be searching for that chemistry of a year...
Guerrilla marketing is to be expected from MARK CUBAN. Last year, in a bid for publicity, the Dallas Mavericks' owner not only hired DENNIS RODMAN but offered him free lodging at his own guesthouse. But surely the NBA didn't anticipate that Cuban would be downright ecstatic about the $250,000 fine officials imposed for his antics during the Mavs' loss to Detroit last week. "I think it's great," said Cuban, the billionaire co-founder of Broadcast.com who bought the team last year. Cuban was reprimanded for a public scolding of game referees. "There is no way we could...
...marriages: Cher and second husband Gregg Allman's (nine days) and Carmen Electra and Dennis Rodman's (nine days...
...They say Einstein didn't speak until he was nine. Conan didn't really speak until he was about 20," says Rodman Flender '84, who worked with O'Brien at the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...