Despite Living Under Semi-house Arrest, Dennis Rodman Was Overwhelmed With Gratitude for $2.13 Billion Franchise

Dennis Rodman got real about his highs and lows in his 2006 book, I Should Be Dead By Now. In that, he narrated an episode three years before the book was released. Troubles for the most flamboyant personality of the NBA mounted after his retirement from playing. But he made an attempt to turn that around. The chance came in the form of a major franchise and a new agent.

Rodman spoke about signing with the agent who would become his lifelong friend. The agent would bring him an offer that could have resulted in his comeback to the NBA.

Dennis Rodman recalls the struggles leading up to hiring an agent

In 2006, Dennis Rodman released his book, I Should Be Dead By Now, where he got candid about his troubles. In one of the chapters, he narrated his attempt to come back into the spotlight in 2003, a year that turned out to be pretty dramatic for ‘The Worm.’

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With the end of his ties with the Dallas Mavericks, Rodman’s NBA career culminated in 2000. He took a break from basketball to focus on his wrestling career on the side.

He had welcomed his younger child, Trinity, only a year before. In 2003, he married DJ and Trinity’s mother, Michelle Moyer. Their marriage was turbulent, with Michelle filing for divorce in 2004. Rodman was also arrested on domestic violence charges that year. He would later be unable to pay child support and filed for bankruptcy after getting scammed.

This was only the tip of the iceberg of Dennis Rodman’s entire drama. But he saw the light when he was left off the list of the 50 Greatest NBA Players. The NBA champion’s career ended anticlimactically when no team signed him after the Mavs. But he wasn’t going out quietly.

“I wanted to make my farewell to the NBA on my terms,” he wrote in the book. So he signed with his agent, Darren Prince, and made an attempt to get back into the NBA.

That’s when Rodman held his infamous press conference on July 18, 2003. He used that stage to formally come out of retirement.

Rodman’s comeback went a different way

Darren Prince made dozens of calls and met with people before he finally had some good news for his client. In October 2003, the Denver Nuggets were considering him.

Nuggets fans were not happy about it. But Rodman was glad to have his “size-15 foot” in the door. Prince would tell media at the time that Rodman was a fan of Nuggets rookie, Carmelo Anthony. Both Rodman and Prince would claim that money and contracts weren’t as important unless the former could make an impact on the young players.

But ironically, Rodman didn’t end up returning to the NBA. He instead switched to the American Basketball Association in the 2003-04 season. He signed with Long Beach Jam, hoping to be called up to the NBA. That never panned out, but he did lead the team to their first ABA championship.

He went on to play in Mexico and in the UK and again in the ABA before finally retiring from basketball. That would not be the end of his troubles. However, the NBA did acknowledge his legacy as a basketball player by inducting him into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in 2011.

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