“Fifty percent of life in the NBA is sex. The other 50 percent is money.”
Dennis Rodman, on the Worm’s official Web site
No wonder Rodman misses the NBA so much. Can you blame him?
Some guys don’t know when to quit. Rodman is one of them.
The same never-say-die traits that made Rodman the most relentless re-bounder in basketball history persuaded him to drag his 43-year-old body up and down a practice court in Denver on Tuesday, clinging to crazy hopes of making a come-back with the Nuggets.
By all accounts, it was not a pretty sight.
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It’s a bummer for a middle-aged man to come to grips with his own mortality.
After running barely long enough to work up a decent sweat, Rodman sank a layup during a scrimmage and abruptly walked off the floor, citing pain from an ingrown toenail, according to eyewitnesses. Then, Rodman was gone.
“Will he be back again? I honestly don’t know,” said Nuggets general manager Kiki Vandeweghe.
Love him or loathe him, Worm was the No. 1 made-you-look player in the NBA while winning championships with the Pistons and Bulls. But now he’s just another jock who refuses to hang it up long past their prime.
“Why would I not take a look at Rodman? I don’t want to leave any stone unturned,” said Vandeweghe, who added that the loose talk around the league is Michael Jordan has been working out like a demon, testing the possibility of joining forces with Shaquille O’Neal in Miami.