You know Dennis Rodman as the star with the dyed hair. The guy with all the piercings. The one who visited North Korea and became a friend of Kim Jong-un.
Behind the scenes, though, Rodman was quiet and rather shy as a member of the Chicago Bulls, former guard and current Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr told Scott Van Pelt on Sunday after the release of the first two episodes of “The Last Dance.”
Next weekend, Rodman will be featured in the documentary. Van Pelt asked Kerr what the public will be surprised to learn.
“I think just how shy and quiet Dennis was,” Kerr said. “The real Dennis.”
As Kerr was talking, SVP showed pictures of Rodman, including dressing in drag with a wedding dress.
“Behind the scenes he liked listening to Pearl Jam, he liked hanging out with his teammates, he liked lifting weights and he rarely said a word in practice,” Kerr recalled.
“But when he got in front of the crowd, like you see in some of these images, he became a different person.”
Rodman was with the Bulls during their second three-peat.
He led the league in rebounding each of those three years as part of his seven-year run as the best rebounder in the game in which he averaged 16.7 boards per game.
“Genuinely, he was just a good dude,” Kerr said. “Guys really liked to hang out with him and he was pretty unassuming, actually.”