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tabx="-1" class="BasePageMaContent-kFvAuh ewPCZH page__ma-ntent"><article class="article ma-ntent" lang="en-US"><div class="ArticlePageLeBackground-EufvU tFsh"><hear class="ContentHearWrapper-clujbs kaZCaf ntent-hear article__ntent-hear"><div data-ttid="ContentHearContaer" class="ContentHearContaer-cGKRbE knDxNq"><div class="ContentHearHedAccredatnWrapper-GFiQf cDNVlV"><div data-ttid="ContentHearTleBlockWrapper" class="ContentHearTleBlockWrapper-cjmSKp cCntXd"><div data-ttid="ContentHearRubric" class="ContentHearRubricBlock-LmpbT eRFpQc"><div data-ttid="ContentHearRubricDateBlock" class="ContentHearRubricDateBlock-kAQcZP fTFWxD"><div class="RubricWrapper-dKmCNX kpuNXj bric ContentHearRubricContaer-eTudtt iRsSlw"><a class="RubricLk-gRWSOU fTtYjx bric__lk" href="/gqsports"><span class="RubricName-fVtemz cLxcNi">GQ Sports</span></a></div></div></div><h1 data-ttid="ContentHearHed" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ContentHearHed-NCyCC iUEiRd jPOabC BjYFU">Dennis Rodman, Bad Boy for Life</h1></div><div class="ContentHearAccredatn-lfctVB etVsnJ ntent-hear__accredatn" data-ttid="ContentHearAccredatn"><div class="ContentHearDek-bIqFFZ eASNBN">He’s had a Hall of Fame reer the NBA, where he phed buttons and fashned himself to a genr-explodg rock star. (And llected five rgs, too.) But when you peel away the attu, and the hair, and the piercgs and tattoos, who is Dennis Rodman unrneath all?</div><div class="ContentHearByle-kmPyCa emiglw"><div class="ContentHearByleContent-dpPmNn DRFq"><div data-ttid="BylWrapper" class="BylWrapper-KIudk irTIfE byl ContentHearByl-cZqgyJ bHLeKI"><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH gtxxjM byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd dlWgVJ gnILss byle__preamble">By </span><a class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ByleLk-gEnFiw iUEiRd fhQbnq dzFUnH eErqIx byle__name-lk button" href="/ntributor/mychal-nzel-smh">Mychal Denzel Smh</a></span></span></p><p class="ByleWrapper-jWHrLH gtxxjM byle byl__byle" data-ttid="ByleWrapper" emProp="thor" emType="><span emProp="name" class="ByleNamWrapper-jbHncj fuDQVo"><span data-ttid="ByleName" class="ByleName-kwmrLn cYaBaU byle__name"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BylePreamble-iJolpQ iUEiRd dlWgVJ gnILss byle__preamble">Photography by </span><a class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ BaseLk-eNWuiM ByleLk-gEnFiw iUEiRd fhQbnq dzFUnH eErqIx byle__name-lk button" href="/ntributor/renell-medrano">Renell Medrano</a></span></span></p></div><time data-ttid="ContentHearPublishDate" dateTime="2021-11-18T08:00:00-05:00" class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ ContentHearPublishDate-eIBicG iUEiRd ivrQAn cZpOSL">November 18, 2021</time></div></div><div class="SocialInsWrapper-hKMEXV ffgPVr social-ins social-ins--standard ContentHearAccredatnSocialIns-jorO fPzfaa ntent-hear__social-share"><ul data-ttid="socialInslist" class="SocialInsList-cHVTIA ivmblD social-ins__list"></ul></div></div></div><div class="ContentHearLeadAsset-hGbumP diZztE lead-asset ContentHearLeadAssetWrapper-hfXHEc Grck lead-asset--width-fullbleed" data-ttid="ContentHearLeadAsset"><figure class="ContentHearLeadAssetContent-kOfYSG dRGWbI"><div class="ContentHearLeadAssetContentMedia-bLEIpi jjhWdS lead-asset__ntent__photo"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW jvZaPI rponsive-asset ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm"><div data-tt="aspect-rat-ntaer" class="AspectRatContaer-bJHpJz gupMhz"><div class="aspect-rat--overlay-ntaer"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa ContentHearRponsiveAsset-bREgIb hONbnm rponsive-image"><source media="(max-width: 767px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w" siz="100vw"/><source media="(m-width: 768px)" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w, 1920w, 2240w" siz="100vw"/><img alt="Dennis Rodman Bad Boy for Life" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src="></picture></div></div></span><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE dVZQpq ptn ContentHearLeadAssetCaptn-hPWmSN XczIg"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd cdsJgg fNaHcW ptn__cred">Vt, $9,400, by Gucci. Top, $4,900, by Ludovic Sat Sern. Skirt (price upon requt) by Thom Browne. Boots, $198, by Timberland. Socks, $34, by Falke. Sunglass, $450, by Gentle Monster. Lk bracelet (on left arm), $2,695, by Good Art ID. Bracelet (on left arm), $10,500, by David Yurman. Lk bracelet (on right arm), $795, by Marte Ali ID. Bracelet (on right arm), $4,500, by David Yurman. Earrgs (throughout), his own. Nose rgs (throughout), his own. Lip rg (throughout), his own.</span></div></div></figure></div></div><asi class="PersistentAsiWrapper-VGrR oEIBz persistent-asi persistent-asi--align-left" style="posn:absolute;top:to;height:to" data-ttid="PersistentAsiWrapper"><div class="StickyBoxWrapper-jfYB jNgrSF sticky-box ContentHearPersistentAsi-fsnAmQ dFzKzm"><div class="StickyBoxPrimary-dzWDWL cdhYoN sticky-box__primary"><div class="SocialInsWrapper-hKMEXV ffgPVr social-ins social-ins--has-background ContentHearSocialIns-jzJiyg ctaZl social-ins--share"><ul data-ttid="socialInslist" class="SocialInsList-cHVTIA ivmblD social-ins__list"></ul></div></div><div class="StickyBoxPlaceholr-grPmrg dxAvXx"></div></div></asi></hear></div><div data-attribute-verso-pattern="article-body" class="ArticlePageContentBackGround-cNiFNN kJkLmH article-body__ntent"><div class="ArticlePageChunksContent-etcMtP eRxRjL"><div data-ttid="ArticlePageChunks" class="ArticlePageChunks-fLyCVG eSsnKa"><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3"><em>“Freaks are lled eaks and are treated as they are treated— the ma, abomably—bee they are human begs who e to echo, ep wh , our most profound terrors and sir.” —Jam Baldw, “Freaks and the Amerin Ial of Manhood,” 1985</em></div><p><strong>When I see that</strong> there’s a Fort Lrdale party on the agenda for my time wh Dennis Rodman, I get nervo. Not only bee we’re Florida, where COVID surg seemed to be happeng every week, but bee this is Dennis Rodman we’re talkg about. I have no ia how to prepare for whatever uld go down at a party hosted by one of the most notor partiers of all time.</p><p>The ftivi are set to take place at Salt7, which bills self as an upsle steakhoe that pulls double duty as a nightclub. He arriv a black SUV to a crowd anticipatg the full Dennis Rodman experience, and he’s liverg wh his look: His hair is dyed neon orange, and he’s wearg leopard-prt sweats wh a teal tank that featur a flamgo the middle. Ctom Crocs and light-tted shas, to show off his gold eyhadow, plete the f. Cigar hand, he mak his way over to the red rpet, all of the reprentativ for his new venture clearg a path, and pos for pictur. A jogger on her eveng n stops her tracks to ll a iend about the scene she’s e across, and I n hear her say “Dennis Rodman… that’s a crazy thg to n up on.”</p><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad---ntent"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot---ntent" data-no-id="3sg2z"></div></div><p>Tonight’s party is a promotnal event for a le of male supplements that Rodman has recently begun endorsg—a <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">product</a> lled <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ManTFup</a>, which is supposed to “improve energy levels” and “crease valy” or somethg. It’s the kd of product you might see advertised on daytime ESPN wh a wk and a nod toward heterosexual virily. Dennis, to his cred, don’t try to sell me very hard. “I thk a lot of pani don’t want to fuck wh me,” he says his typil half mumble. “[But this is] all healthy stuff. It’s pretty much jt vams. If you want to do , do . Sh, whatever.” He may not be an enthiastic pchman, but he is, at 60, still unapologetilly himself.</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Human Person Necklace Jewelry Accsori Accsory Sunglass Dennis Rodman Clothg and Apparel" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE dVZQpq ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI cugSjO asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd cdsJgg fNaHcW ptn__cred">Jacket, $1,460, by Botter. Sunglass, $447, by Miu Miu. Necklace, $4,235, by Homer.</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="te92q"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>There’s a very South Florida crowd gathered on the pat—not que Miami, but maybe s olr . Skimpy drs and four-ch heels alongsi whe len pants and loafers. Everyone’s sk seems to have been kissed by the sun a ltle longer than is rmatologilly remend, but they’re bravg the Augt heat neverthels jt for Dennis. He’s surround by the people he’s llected over the years, or those tryg to get close to him now. He’s his element, greetg partygoers left and right, snappg pictur wh the dozen or so hired mols and cueg up Instagram Live to share the ftivi wh his fans who uldn’t make .</p><div class="Contaer-bkChBi byNLHx"></div><p>Salt7 has a large outdoor seatg area and I’m vaccated, so I’m happy to l about and watch people fawn over him. One guy offers Dennis $200 sh to take a picture (Dennis oblig), and another sperately wants him to sign a basketball he claims is for his chary. Whatever else is happeng, Dennis has his cigar and all the drks he uld want and is surround by a ep rotatn of pretty, young mols. There’s seemgly nothg that uld e along to ra on his para.</p><div><div class="ConsumerMarketgUnThemedWrapper-iUTMTf jssHut nsumer-marketg-un nsumer-marketg-un--article-mid-ntent" role="prentatn" aria-hidn="te"><div class="nsumer-marketg-un__slot nsumer-marketg-un__slot--article-mid-ntent nsumer-marketg-un__slot---ntent"></div><div class="journey-un"></div></div></div><p>And then, almost biblilly, the sky cracks open and starts to pour.</p><hr/><p><strong>Watch Now:</strong></p><div role="headg" aria-level="3" class="headg-h3">10 Thgs Dennis Rodman Can't Live Whout</div><figure class="CneVioEmbedFigure-kCfJjN hdJOda e-vio-embed"><div data-ttid="script-ntaer"></div></figure><hr/><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Dennis Rodman Human Person Sunglass Accsori Accsory and Fashn" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE dVZQpq ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI cugSjO asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd cdsJgg fNaHcW ptn__cred">Sweater, $2,051, by Raf Simons. Skirt (price upon requt) by Louis Vuton Men's. Boots, $198, by Timberland. Socks, $34, by Falke. Hat, $500, by Stetson. Sunglass, $765, by Balenciaga.</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="qhlhmn"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p><strong>When his NBA</strong> reer abptly end at the turn of the century, Dennis partied nonstop. He once claimed to have slept wh 2,000 women his lifetime and, more harrowgly, once claimed to have broken his penis durg sex three tim. He was almost 40 then, but still partied like was his job. Sometim was. Like other celebri, Dennis was reportedly offered up to six figur om clubs all over the world to make an appearance, to be the ma attractn for a night.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-1 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>But he was still spendg money faster than he uld make . Whout the stcture NBA life provid, whout an outlet for all his energy, he found himself, and not for the first time his life, aimls. “They had bets Vegas when I was 40 years old about what year I was gog to die,” he tells me. “You go like… what they ll ? The sports books the sos. You go and say, ‘Oh, 10 to 1 Dennis Rodman is gog to die this year.’ That kd of sh.”</p><p>Basketball had been the only thg that gave his life stcture, so three years after retirg 2000, he attempted to orchtrate an NBA eback and was movg forward on signg wh the Denver Nuggets. Then, October 2003, the partyg ught up wh him when he crashed a motorcycle outsi of a Las Vegas strip club. Dennis would later plead no ntt to drivg unr the fluence, wh his hop of returng to the NBA dashed due to a leg jury. He was surround by people who never wished him well, if they wished him anythg at all.</p><p>More pendable figur om Dennis’s life would ocsnally try to tervene—like Phil Jackson, his old ach on the Chigo Bulls. “I like to have a good time, man. Good, clean fun,” says Dennis. “But for a while was kd of a ltle sketchy. That’s when Phil Jackson took me to the si, and that’s the first time Phil Jackson ever got emotnal wh me. He said, ‘Dennis, I don’t want you to die.’ ”</p><p>For all the flashy outward signifiers, he’s rried a lot of pa si, pa that he’s mostly kept to himself and that the partyg has never cured, though hasn’t stopped him om tryg. The past few years, though, have seen him openg up a b more publicly. He’s startg to reflect on his life now that he’s olr, and he wants to make amends, though he’s not always clear on how.</p><hr/></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa kFAtaa body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT uKfZv"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Hat Sunglass Accsori Accsory Human Person and Dennis Rodman" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p><strong>A day before</strong> the party, Dennis and I are stg on a balny at the W Hotel overlookg the Fort Lrdale strip. He’s a ltle grouchy, a b hungry—I’d been warned that you never que know which Dennis you’re gog to get—but we’re out here bee we both want to have a cigar.</p><p>I’ve got an illegally purchased, and potentially fake, Cuban my pocket that I picked up earlier for this ocsn. In his first real acknowledgment of my prence, Dennis stcts his longtime iend <a data-offer-url=" class="external-lk" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLk","outgogURL":"" href=" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Floyd Ragl</a> to hand me one of his, a Montecristo Whe Seri. It’s a ltle light for my taste, but would be to turn down, and I’m for whatever puts Dennis a good mood.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="h294ph"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>He tak a drag of the cigar and seems immediately pacified, so I tell him that I was a Chigo Bulls fan even though I grew up Virgia Beach, hopg to break the ice.</p><p>“Sounds origal,” he says dryly. Dennis Rodman jt dissed me, and I’m choosg to take this as a sign that the cigar has him sufficiently relaxed. Comfortable. We start ch-chattg about basketball, specifilly his legacy, and I mentn somethg about him beg the greatt rebounr of all time.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-2 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>“That sounds too crazy to say sh like that,” he says dismissively. “I would say Bill Rsell, Wilt Chamberla. But that’s a different era.” While this may be seen as an act of huy and rpect, he’s right about that last part—about playg a different era. His was an era that Dennis himself helped to fe.</p><p>He was selected by the Detro Pistons the send round of the 1986 NBA draft, 27th overall, when he was 25. He had had an excellent llege reer at Southeastern Oklahoma State Universy, even though he’d hardly played anized basketball before llege. The Pistons nsired him more of a project than a prospect, and given a roster stacked wh Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Rick Mahorn, and Bill Laimbeer, Dennis need to fd a way to stand out and make himself valuable. So he ma the cisn to foc almost exclively on fense and reboundg: areas of the game that require tremendo amounts of energy, which played to his strengths.</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Dennis Rodman Bad Boy for Life" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure><p>He realized almost immediately that his motor wouldn’t be enough. In orr to play fense agast the league’s biggt stars—“Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Jam Worthy, all the guys, legendary guys,” he says—Dennis figured he would have to study up. “I had to get faiar wh how they play, so I had to s there and foc, foc, foc,” he says. Dennis cid this was his role, then turned to a craft, one he dited all of his ee time to hong. He beme a key part of the legendary Bad Boys, a physilly timidatg, take-no-sh Detro team that regularly beat up a young Michael Jordan and his Chigo Bulls the playoffs. On a team of big personali, he was a quiet, relentls grr—an enarg fan favore. The rult was two NBA champnships before Dennis turned 30. “I worked on fense every day for, like, a uple of years, man,” he says. “And all of a sudn, I perfected to the pot where I knew how players were gog to react to somethg [before they did].”</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="gj094d"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>As a basketball fan, listeng to Dennis get to the weeds of fensive and reboundg strategy is thrillg, pecially bee ’s such an tellectual pursu for him. Seeg Dennis’s terry was the most fascatg part of <em>The Last Dance</em>, the ESPN and Netflix doceri about the Jordan-led Bulls that buted the early days of COVID lockdown and, to some extent, rentextualized Dennis’s place the culture. There’s one scene where Dennis starts to expla his self-assigned homework of learng how the ball would bounce and sp off missed shots om different players om every spot on the floor. The moment, however, was immediately meme-ified and flattened, wh Dennis’s flailg arms and facial exprsn ed as fodr for feelgs of exasperatn or nfn. As mem circulate and transform, the origal ntext ceas to be part of s nsumptn, and, here wh Dennis, somethg major is lost. “What the mem obscured, very classic Rodmanian tradn, is they obscured the geni,” says ESPN’s Pablo Torre. “Like he’s tellg you, ‘This is <em>how</em> I did . <em>This</em> is my approach, and the fact that seems sane to all of you’—and he didn’t say this part—‘is clearly bee I am a savant.’ ”</p><p>He was far smaller than most tradnal big men at six foot seven, and spe those physil limatns he led the league rebounds per game for seven seasons, sometim averagg over 18 a game. He turned reboundg to an art form, another piece of entertament, like a no-look pass or a dunk. He unrstood where to place himself on a basketball urt at any given time better than almost any player league history. “If you look at some of my tap, when I see the ball go up, watch me unrneath the basket, how I posn myself,” Dennis sists. “Bee players don’t see that. They’re always lookg at the ball. They don’t look at me.”</p><p>Eventually, thgs fell apart wh the Pistons. By 1993, ach Chuck Daly—whom Dennis had revered as a father figure—was gone. Sudnly, he was whout the stabily that he had relied on. That was the year he sat alone the parkg lot of The Palace of Auburn Hills and very nearly killed himself. He fell asleep, rifle his lap, listeng to Pearl Jam. He only woke up when the police knocked on his wdow. “The ps had their guns drawn and all this sh,” he says.</p><p>After that cint, he locked himself si his home for nearly two months. Instead of suici, he experienced a more metaphoril ath. “I went om the d-mannered, humble, emotnal guy to this whole other si of Dennis Rodman,” he says. “When I me out of my hoe, that’s when the new Dennis me out.”</p><hr/></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa kFAtaa body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="GenericCalloutWrapper-tojWn jKBFhI llout--has-top-borr" data-ttid="GenericCallout"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Dennis Rodman Bad Boy for Life" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE dVZQpq ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI cugSjO asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd cdsJgg fNaHcW ptn__cred">Jacket, $2,690, and pants, $975, by Givenchy. Sunglass, $150, by Raen. Medium lk necklace, $695, and bracelet (on right arm), $795, by Marte Ali. Large cha necklace, $1,950, by Cele Homme by Hedi Slimane. Bracelet (on left arm), $2,695, by Good Art.</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p><strong>It was </strong> this moment of transformatn that Dennis Rodman as he exists our imagatns was born. After the season, Dennis mand a tra and end up on the Spurs. In San Anton, he dyed his hair. He llected more tattoos and started gettg piercgs. On the urt, he started yellg at refere and was regularly ejected om gam. Off the urt, he found a new scene: “In San Anton I started gog to gay clubs. I started gog to drag clubs. I started brgg drag queens to gam.” Dennis found people livg as boldly as he yearned to, unncerned wh what passed for acceptable the mastream—people who wanted more than anythg else to be ee.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="uqn45"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>“When you talk to people the gay muny, someone who do drag, somethg like that, they’re so fuckg <em>happy,</em>” says Dennis. “They hold their head up so high every fuckg day, man. They’re not ashamed of sh. They’re not tryg to prove anythg, they’re jt out there livg their liv.” He sometim fantasized about havg sex wh men, though he’s ntend he never acted on : “I was wonrg to myself, I said, ‘What if I was gay back then, ’93, ’94? Would I be the NBA?’ ” He thks he would have been. He thks his skills and hard work would have won out and he would have been accepted by teammat and the public alike. I don’t agree wh his sunny outlook: He had enough trouble alienatg some of his teammat San Anton by beg gay-adjacent.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-3 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>His fluidy around ias of genr and qutns about his sexualy weren’t new. When he was a boy, his younger sisters, who always outpaced Dennis size and social stat, ed to drs him up their cloth when they played together. “I didn’t have no brothers. No father. I hung out wh my sisters all the time, and they was jt tryg to make me drs up,” he says. “So I was like the guea pig of the fay.</p><p>“We all had fun at the time, but that didn’t spire me when I got olr,” he says before psg, as if his bra is makg a nnectn real time. “I gus kd of ma me have a sense of awarens of, like, man, I ed to drs like this as a kid. Wearg a drs ma me <em>feel</em> good. You know?”</p><p>Those childhood years wh his sisters were spent Dallas, where their mother worked three jobs to support them. Dennis’s father, Philanr, had left when Dennis was three years old. (Philanr would go on to reportedly father 29 children total; the aptns of his name is almost too obv to pot out.) Dennis ntends that his mother never once told him “I love you” or hugged him as a child, and she kicked him out of the hoe twice. She lived through her own trma; he said an ESPN <em>30 for 30</em> that he’d seen her beaten and dragged on numero ocsns, and yet she still did what she uld to provi. He says he don’t rent her for kickg him out, but there is still a distance between them he would like to mend. “My suatn wh my mother, we a’t never had a heart-to-heart talk,” he tells me. “So ’s a cycle, straight up.”</p><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Sk Human Person Dennis Rodman Clothg Sleeve Apparel and Tattoo" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE dVZQpq ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI cugSjO asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd cdsJgg fNaHcW ptn__cred">Vt, $9,400, by Gucci. Top, $4,900, by Ludovic Sat Sern. Skirt (price upon requt) by Thom Browne. Boots, $198, by Timberland. Socks, $34, by Falke. Sunglass, $450, by Gentle Monster. Lk bracelet (on left arm), $2,695, by Good Art ID. Bracelet (on left arm), $10,500, by David Yurman. Lk bracelet (on right arm), $795, by Marte Ali ID. Bracelet (on right arm), $4,500, by David Yurman. </span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="rnnsg9"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>After his mother kicked him out of the hoe, basketball beme the guidg force his life. He jumped om makhift fay to makhift fay: His iends on the streets of Dallas; a whe fay Bokcho, Oklahoma, who took him durg his llege years; then the Detro Pistons. He bond easily wh anyone who uld seemgly offer the kd of unndnal love that he longed for.</p><p>Which is why his time San Anton was such an uneasy f. Of note was his onturt nng mate David Robson, the all-star center, who didn’t play wh the kd of toughns Dennis was acctomed to g om Detro, where they manhandled opponents and were prepared to w both the game and the ensug fistfight. From the very begng they were an awkward pairg. Dennis says that one time, on the team plane, Robson terpted Dennis while he was playg Ntendo wh a teammate. “I said, ‘David? Why you lookg at me?’ ” Dennis remembers. “He said, ‘Why you got to be the <em>vil</em> all the time?’ I said, ‘What? The vil? What are you talkg about?’ He said, ‘You jt got to be <em>different</em> om everybody.’ ”</p><p>After two seasons San Anton, Dennis was trad, 1995, to the Chigo Bulls, who were need of a rebounr. Phil Jackson adms that Rodman wasn’t exactly a ont--nner for the role. “I thk Derrick Coleman was the first on the list that I had,” says Jackson. (And Dennis? “He was down at the bottom of the list.”) The anchise unrstood that orr to get the full value of Dennis Rodman on the urt, they had to let him be who he was off of . The team hired a retired police officer to be by his si at all tim and ma sure he attend ssns wh the team psychologist, which was somewhat of a rary the 1990s. Like Daly, Jackson beme somethg of a father figure, and he didn’t sweat the stuff that had ma Dennis’s tenure wh the Spurs so tumultuo. Dennis was late to practice all the time, missed shootarounds and game film ssns. But Jackson was lenient. He tsted Dennis to work out every day and study film on his own time. Dennis didn’t do hard dgs, but he drank and partied every night, beg a fixture of Chigo nightlife, and then showed up for every game (when he wasn’t spend) to give the team everythg he had. It worked for three champnships. “You got the greatt basketball player on the pla,” says Dennis of Michael Jordan, “the send greatt Sttie Pippen, and then you got the vil.”</p><p>Dennis has a ep unrstandg of the game, havg elevated the role of the garbageman to an art form. But two s after his reer end, the greatt rebounr of all time says he don’t get any phone lls om NBA ont offic, or even the younger generatn of players, to tap his expertise. “It’s all about the analytics now,” says Dennis. “It’s like you got to shoot here bee analytics means you have to angle the ball, and the ball’s gog to shoot like this…. I’ve been dog that sh for fuckg years.” He’s an old head wh old-head views on the morn game, but the way he talks about mak you spect that he wish the next generatn would ll him up to work wh them, to absorb what he knows, the way players have lled up former Hoton Rockets center Hakeem Olajuwon to show them his footwork the post.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="54p7ok"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>But maybe a savant n’t teach reboundg the way Olajuwon n teach post mov. Or maybe Dennis’s other legacy is somethg they still don’t want to touch.</p><hr/><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Clothg Apparel Eveng Drs Gown Robe Fashn and Costume" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE dVZQpq ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI cugSjO asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd cdsJgg fNaHcW ptn__cred">Cape (price upon requt) by Valento Hte Couture.</span></div></figure><p><strong>I wonr,</strong> had San Sontag wrten an updated versn of her 1964 say “Not on ‘Camp,’ ” if she would have clud Dennis as an example. She wrote that the “sence of Camp is s love of the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeratn” and that “the androgyne is certaly one of the great imag of Camp sensibily.” In the ntext of a nservative and stralaced NBA, as a fan Dennis eher repulsed or lighted you, pendg on your pacy to embrace what was emed weird.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-4 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>In the mid-’90s Dennis bloomed to a performer. He add a ltle flair to his rebounds—he’d kick his legs out like a hurdler and swg his elbows as though he was a mosh p—while his loose-ball div beme more unpredictable. By that pot, his hair lor changed almost nightly. He dated Madonna. And he started to wear women’s cloth.</p><p>Once Dennis began to play wh makp and wear halter tops, his full persona took shape. He me to his own as a sex symbol, a perhaps jarrg experience for someone who grew up beg lled ugly bee of his large facial featur and mismatched body, and who once said he didn’t have his first sexual experience until he was 20, when he paid a sex worker to take his virgy. The Bulls tolerated all the off-urt stuff that ma Dennis who he is. “If he shows up for work, everythg is fe,” says Sttie Pippen of the team’s mentaly at the time.</p><p>Which brgs to the weddg drs.</p><p>The drs was part of the promotn for his 1996 book, <em>Bad as I Wanna Be,</em> and was that moment, ridg down Fifth Avenue wh screamg fans lg the street, that Dennis Rodman realized he was a superstar. “You would have thought that the Yanke won the World Seri,” he remembers. “And I was jt gog to a book signg. This is New York Cy, not even Chigo.” It’s as lible an image as they e, one imprted on as perhaps <em>the</em> fg image of Dennis Rodman, even if afterward he was mercilsly mocked by tractors. (In the openg of the 2002 film <em>Unrver Brother,</em> footage of Dennis the weddg drs is prented as an example of the downfall of Black culture.) If he wasn’t already, the drs marked Dennis, the Baldw sense, as a <em>eak.</em></p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="pgjyhr"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Dennis Rodman Clothg Apparel Human Person Su Coat Overat Sunglass and Accsori" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE dVZQpq ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI cugSjO asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd cdsJgg fNaHcW ptn__cred">Coat, $12,700, by Gucci. Sweater, $1,350, by Dolce & Gabbana. Sunglass, $630, by Balenciaga. Necklace, $275, by Beepy Bella.</span></div></figure><p>He wasn’t the first Black man the public eye to embrace flamboyance and femy—there were already plenty of micians, like Ltle Richard and Prce—but he was a large Black man a tradnally mascule profsn. All of his halter tops and eyeler did somethg I wouldn’t have been able to appreciate at the time, but n’t help thkg about now, a world populated by the lik of Kid Cudi, Rsell Wtbrook, and Lil Nas X. He helped set the stage for a broar unrstandg and acceptance of varied forms of Black masculy, however shallow that acceptance might be at tim.</p><p>But Dennis ntends he was never tryg to make a statement wh any of . He was jt tryg to do whatever ma him feel good at the moment. (“Camp rts on nocence,” Sontag wrote.) The ia to wear the weddg drs me to him on a whim, and he got a big -sign when he ran to Steven Tyler of Aerosmh New York the night prr. “I went out to the gym, and I was ridg the StairMaster,” says Dennis. “And to my left was Steven Tyler, jt workg out.” Dennis told him that he was planng to wear a weddg drs to his book signg. “Steven jt jumped off the StairMaster and said, ‘Oh, my God, that is so fuckg awome!’ Bee you know how Steven Tyler drs, right? He wore eccentric drag the ’70s. And he said, ‘Do , do , do !’ ”</p><p>And th was born Dennis Rodman the rock star, which he took on as his central inty. He has often talked about not seeg race, of feelg tranged om beg Black. As a rock star, Dennis seems to thk he n transcend such tegori. But ’s a b disgenuo to say he don’t see or unrstand race and s attendant hierarchi and equali. Look through his history and you’ll enunter him vg tractors to kiss his Black ass, and he was once forced to apologize to Larry Bird, whom he lled “very overrated” on acunt of beg whe. Dennis unrstands how race functns Ameri perfectly well. He’d jt rather not talk about , I gather, bee gets the way of havg a good time.</p><hr/></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa kFAtaa body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT uKfZv"><div class="GroupCalloutWrapper-bPWknp gjCHDP llout llout--group llout--group-2" data-ttid="GroupCalloutWrapper"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-1"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Image may nta Glass Accsori Accsory Human Person Head Face Dennis Rodman and Piercg" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div></figure><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed llout--group-em llout--group-em-2"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Dennis Rodman Bad Boy for Life" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE dVZQpq ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI cugSjO asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd cdsJgg fNaHcW ptn__cred">Coat, $5,950, by Dolce & Gabbana. Sunglass, $280, by Gentle Monster.</span></div></figure></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p><strong>When he was</strong> 19 or 20, Dennis worked as a night janor at the Dallas–Fort Worth Regnal Airport. One day he got the ia to steal some watch om one of the shops. He stole 50. The secury meras ught him, of urse, and he was arrted, but the charg reportedly never went through bee the police revered the watch: Dennis had given them all away.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="lfcv1l"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>The cint unrsr a central missn Dennis’s life, even back then: to feel good. He didn’t try to sell the watch; that’s not why he took them. He simply hand them out to people he knew. “I was tryg to please people…. I jt wanted people to like me,” he once said.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-5 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>I thk often about his mug shot om that night. In , you n see all of the fear and lonels sunken to his face. He’s the middle of a late-stage growth spurt—after turng 18, he shot up om 5 feet 11 to 6 feet 7—but there’s nothg that feels adult the way his head hangs. He’d been cryg, and every feature that people had labeled as ugly sticks out a ltle more promently. He’s a kid here, a kid search of a kd of love he didn’t feel at home.</p><p>Today Dennis has four children himself. Two were born 2001 and 2002—D.J., who plays llege basketball for the Washgton State Cougars, and Try, a profsnal soccer player for the Washgton Spir, om his third marriage. (His send marriage was to Carmen Electra 1998, the rult of a dnken night Vegas.) There’s also his son Chase, who was born the late ’90s by a woman Dennis never married. His relatnship wh his kids is straed, and he thks often about Alexis, his first, who was born 1988. Dennis wasn’t around much when she was growg up. Profsnal athlet have tense schl, and on top of that, Dennis was always off partyg. A part of Dennis always knew he was failg them. In his 2011 Basketball Hall of Fame ductn speech, wh all four Rodman children the dience, he apologized for not beg a better father.</p><p>Ten years later, he’s still workg on . “I’ma have a relatnship wh my kids. That’s g soon,” he tells me on the balny at the W. “I jt got to get them together.” Dennis envisns a scenar where all of his children will be together and he’ll be the hot seat, answerg all their qutns. “I want to hear , bee I want to know what they felt like all the years.”</p><p>Dennis Rodman says he’s ready for a reckong. He wants to repair the damage he’s done to his relatnships. He wants to atone for his mistak. But the mon nomator his reasong—“soon”—suggts he might not know how, and he ntu to look for validatn sometim strange plac. Like, say, Pyongyang, North Korea.</p><p>In 2013, Dennis Rodman beme one of the first Amerins to meet Kim Jong-un, supreme lear of North Korea and succsor to Kim Jong-il. He went wh a <em>Vice</em> documentary crew for an exhibn game. Apparently the Kims were huge Bulls fans, which pried the door open for what was termed “basketball diplomacy.” Dennis wasn’t even supposed to go, origally. He says they asked Michael Jordan first. Then Sttie Pippen. Both said no. “Then they asked me,” says Dennis. “I said, ‘Okay, I’ll do . I’ll go.’ Ltle did I know… ”</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="vytsq"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>Though seems prehensible to me, Dennis claims he was unaware that North Korea was an thorarian regime that regularly ms human rights vlatns. “I thought was like, well, North Korea, I’m gog over there to sign tographs and stuff like that, take pictur,” he says. “I didn’t know was all that until I got over there. I was like, ‘Oh, sh.’ Nobody prepared me for that.”</p><p>Today, he lls Kim a iend, and ’s not hard to see why. “They gave me the printial sue the bt hotel North Korea,” he says. “They gave me maids, chefs.” He’s gone back to the untry several tim now, and has been treated like royalty every time. “They jt sat there praisg me like I was one of them,” he says. “I was like, ‘Wow.’ I jt fell love wh their untry bee they were so lovg.”</p><p>And here we are, back to feelg loved. Dennis needs to feel loved so badly, he will take om whatever source is willg to give . While there’s somethg tenr to be acknowledged there, creat huge bld spots. He still don’t see what he did so wrong. Dennis tri to assure me that he’s ntributed to the release of Amerins om North Korean prison mps. (Includg Kenh Bae, an Amerin missnary who publicly thanked Rodman, and Otto Warmbier, a llege stunt.) Dennis also has claimed partial rponsibily for the historic 2018 meetg between Kim and former print Tmp, whom Dennis beiend as a nttant on <em>The Celebry Apprentice.</em> He has sisted that the meetg between two world lears may be his greatt legacy. But somehow I don’t believe history will look back on the meetg between a tyrant and a would-be tyrant wh much fondns.</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-6 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p>Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe Dennis’s unrelentg posivy is tly the thg we need to thaw our divisns. Maybe everyone needs to h the club wh Dennis, take a few shots of tequila, and fet the worst of what their liv have been orr to move on.</p><p>Except hasn’t actually worked for him.</p><hr/></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa kFAtaa body ArticlePageBodyGridContaer-jrMoA-d xjuw body__grid-ntaer" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div data-ttid="feature-large-llout" class="CalloutFeatureLargeWrapper-cGjDsT uKfZv"><figure class="AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed"><div class="AssetEmbedAssetContaer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-ntaer"><span class="SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB rponsive-asset AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset"><picture class="RponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedRponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__rponsive-asset rponsive-image"><noscript><img alt="Dennis Rodman Bad Boy for Life" class="RponsiveImageContaer-eybHBd fptoWY rponsive-image__image" src=" srcSet=" 120w, 240w, 320w, 640w, 960w, 1280w, 1600w" siz="100vw"/></noscript></picture></span></div><div class="CaptnWrapper-jSZdqE dVZQpq ptn AssetEmbedCaptn-fNQBPI cugSjO asset-embed__ptn"><span class="BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptnCred-ejegDm iUEiRd cdsJgg fNaHcW ptn__cred">Pants, $765, by Botter. Necklace, $4,235, by Homer.</span></div></figure></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p><strong>The ra starts</strong> g down, and the guts all sh to move si, where the party ntu. Dennis is whisked away to a private booth upstairs, followed by eher the luckit or most enterprisg of the mols who know there will be more photo opportuni if they’re stg next to him. I rpect the htle. But I already kd of hate clubs, and next to no one is wearg a mask this COVID hotbed state. Dennis is fishg one cigar and pickg up another that someone brought to him, while also enjoyg shots of Casamigos, pliments of the owner. He checks wh me nstantly to see if I’m havg a good time, and I n’t say I’m havg a bad one, but my COVID anxiety isn’t allowg me to let loose.</p><p>Then Jay-Z’s “I Jt Wanna Love U” on, and Dennis remembers that I’m om Virgia Beach, where the Neptun are om. He gtur to me as he’s gettg everyone hype. It’s a jam, and I n’t help ; I oblige him by recg every lyric. Dennis is havg fun. He’s makg sure everyone else is havg fun too.</p></div></div></div></div><div data-ttid="RowWrapper" class="RowWrapper-UmqTg HEhan full-bleed-ad row-mid-ntent-ad"><div class="StickyMidContentAdWrapper-fSBzwl drzyIa ad-stickymidntent"><div class="AdWrapper-dQtivb fZrssQ ad ad--mid-ntent should-hold-space"><div class="ad__slot ad__slot--mid-ntent" data-no-id="fap00t"></div></div></div></div><div class="GridWrapper-cAzTTK eRggVV grid grid-margs grid-ems-0 ArticlePageChunksGrid-hfxa bDFJoo"><div class="GridItem-buujkM kHPPIF grid--em"><div class="BodyWrapper-kufPGa edvONh body body__ntaer article__body" data-journey-hook="client-ntent" data-ttid="BodyWrapper"><div class="body__ner-ntaer"><p>He’s at home here and is willg to go all night. He might even h up a gay club after this, sce he still go three, four tim a week. It’s when he’s alone that the darker thoughts start to creep to his head: thoughts about his own mortaly, thoughts about his time left here on Earth.</p><p>“After turng 60 years old, ’s like, ‘Sh. What’s left of me? How n I keep my md tune wh life?’ Sh. ‘How do I prepare myself to die?’ That’s the only thg I have left, is to die peacefully,” he told me on the balny.</p><p>Is that ? All that’s left for Dennis Rodman now is to die peacefully?</p><p>“I thk I’ve got a lot more to give to people. I thk I got a ltle more happs for the youth of the world. But, for me, I thk I’ve been preparg myself to die peacefully. I’ve been thkg about that a lot lately. It keeps my md at ease bee I know I’m gog to do that. I’m not gog to self-stct like I was back then—10, 15 years ago. Hell, no. I got my life ntrol right now. Everythg is gog the right directn.”</p><div data-attr-viewport-monor="le-recirc" class="le-recirc-wrapper le-recirc-observer-target-7 viewport-monor-anchor"></div><p><strong>Mychal Denzel Smh</strong> <em>is the thor of the</em> New York Tim <em>bt seller</em> Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watchg <em>and</em> Stak Is High, <em>wner of the 2020 Kirk Prize for Nonfictn.</em></p><p><em>A versn of this story origally appeared the December/January 2022 issue wh the tle "Bad Boy for Life."</em></p><h2>Subscribe to GQ. <a href=" target="_blank">Click here >></a></h2><hr/><p><strong>PRODUCTION CREDITS:</strong><br/><em>Photographs by <strong>Renell Medrano</strong></em><br/><em>Styled by <strong>Simon Rasmsen</strong></em><br/><em>Hair by <strong>Cassie Carey</strong> for EVO Hairre</em><br/><em>Sk by <strong>Daniel Pazos</strong> for Creative Management</em><br/><em>Tailorg by <strong>Olga Mevern</strong></em><br/><em>Set Dign by <strong>Rafa Olarra</strong> for 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