Dennis Rodman is known For His Rebounding and defending skill. He won 5 championships with 2 different teams, One is Bad Boys Detroit Piston and Another one is Chicago Bulls.
As per Chris Broussard on Fox Sports, "When Everyone sees Dennis Rodman first thing come in mind is- Nose Rings, Wild Color Haired, The Maskara, The Lipstik, The Painted Nails, The Wedding Dress and say this dude is a Baller. Ya Dennis Rodman was a Baller. In every generation, we get role players who really distinguish themselves without scoring a lot of points. We got Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala Today, In the past, you had Derek Fisher, Robert Horry, Bruce Bown, Bobby Jones but the best one of the all-time is Dennis Rodman.
And Why?
Dennis Rodman was a rebounding genius, He was a great rebounder, He was a guy who has a neck for grabbing rebounds. He was a rebounding genius, He studies the art of rebounding like it was a calculus equation. He studied where the ball is likely to bounce off the rim depending on what part of the floor the shot was taken from and he went after every rebound tenaciously and it shows in its numbers.
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Despite being just 6.7 feet Rodman led the NBA in rebounding for 7 straight years from 1991 to 1998. Only Wilt led the NBA in rebounding more season than Dennis Rodman but not even Wilt or Bill both of them averaged 22 rebounds a game for their career dominating the glass-like Dennis Rodman. Over those 7 years, Dennis Rodman averaged 16.7 rebounds per game. In two of those 7 seasons, Dennis Rodman averaged more than 18 rebounds a game making him the only player to average 18 or more rebounds for a season in the last 40 years.
In 4 of those 7 seasons, Rodman led the NBA in rebounding more than 4 boards a game. only 3 other players of history have done that Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, and Moses Malone but none of them have done it more than twice.
And what makes Rodman run even more impressive is that came during the greatest era of the big man in NBA History. There was Shaq, There was Hakeem, Patrick Ewing, David Robinson, Alonzo Mourning, and not even the mentioning great rebounding forward like Charles Barkley and Karl Malone even still Rodman left them in the dust when it comes to working in the Glass.
Rodman understood his role love his role and stayed in his role. He knew he wasn't much of a scorer, He knew he couldn't shoot the basketball. He can fill the lane in transition, can score on put backs, and score on easy dump-offs outside of that he rarely even looked at the rim.
Over the course of his career, he averaged fewer than 6 shots per game, and during the second 3-peat with the Bulls, with Jordan Rodman despite playing 34 minutes a night only took 2 shots a game. He rarely took the random 3 or the random fifteen footer just because. No, He understood his role and stayed in his lane.
Now you rebound, defend, and don't get outside of yourself you are going to win and Rodman was the greatest winners an NBA has ever seen. He has 5 championships 2 with the Bad Boys Detroit Piston and 3 with the Jordan's Bulls but there is more than that according to hoopshype.com Dennis Rodman has the 17 the highest winning % of any player in NBA history. That's higher than Jordan, LeBron, Kobe, Kareem, Shaq, Wilt, and Steph. So the list is legit And So is Rodman."
This information shows how great a player Dennis Rodman was! Dennis Rodman is in 8 times all-defensive Team. 2 times defensive player of the year. 2 times selected in all NBA.
Before winning the 3-peat with Bulls Dennis Rodman had a chance to win a 3-peat when Piston won back to back titles in 1989 and 1990 but in the run, for 3rd title, they lost to Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference Finals with 4-0 in 1991.
Before winning the 3-peat with Bulls Dennis Rodman had a chance to win a 3-peat when Piston won back to back titles in 1989 and 1990 but in the run, for 3rd title, they lost to Chicago Bulls in the Eastern Conference Finals with 4-0 in 1991.
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