Cuba Frees A.P. Reporter
Date: 14 May 1961
Dennis Keith Rodman (born May 13, 1961) is an American former professional basketball player. Renowned for his defensive and rebounding abilities, his biography on the official NBA website states that he is "arguably the best rebounding forward in NBA history". Nicknamed "the Worm", he played for the Detroit Pistons, San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, and Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Rodman played at the small forward position in his early years before becoming a power forward.
He earned NBA All-Defensive First Team honors seven times and won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award twice. He also led the NBA in rebounds per game for a record seven consecutive years and won five NBA championships. On April 1, 2011, the Pistons retired Rodman's No. 10 jersey, and he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame later that year. In October 2021, Rodman was honored as one of the league's greatest players of all-time by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team.
Rodman experienced an unhappy childhood and was often described as shy and introverted in his early years. After attempting to take his own life in 1993, he reinvented himself as a "bad boy" and became notorious for numerous controversial antics. He repeatedly dyed his hair in artificial colors, had many piercings and tattoos, and regularly disrupted games by clashing with opposing players and officials. He famously wore a wedding dress to promote his 1996 autobiography Bad as I Wanna Be. Rodman also attracted international attention for his visits to North Korea and his subsequent befriending of the North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong Un in 2013.
In addition to being a former professional basketball player, Rodman has appeared in professional wrestling. He was a member of the nWo and fought alongside Hulk Hogan in the main event of two Bash at the Beach pay-per-views. In professional wrestling, Rodman was the first-ever winner of the Celebrity Championship Wrestling tournament. He had his own TV show, The Rodman World Tour, and had starring roles in the action films Double Team (1997) and Simon Sez (1999). He appeared in several reality TV series and was the winner of the $222,000 main prize of the 2004 edition of Celebrity Mole.
Preberite več...13. maj 1961 je bil sobota pod znakom zvezdice ♉. Bil je 132 dan v letu. Predsednik Združenih držav je bil John F. Kennedy.
Če ste rojeni na ta dan, ste stari 65 let. Vaš zadnji rojstni dan je bil sreda, 13. maj 2026, pred 0 dnevi. Vaš naslednji rojstni dan je četrtek, 13. maj 2027, čez 364 dni. Živeli ste 23.741 dni ali približno 569.794 ur, ali približno 34.187.684 minut ali približno 2.051.261.040 sekund.
Date: 13 May 1961
pressmen ratify pact with 11 NYC papers
Date: 14 May 1961
Amer Press Inst seminars set; lists
Date: 14 May 1961
Special to The New York Times
Statues atop Witherspoon Bldg, Phila, removed in modenization program
Date: 14 May 1961
By ARTHUR KROCK
Arthur KROCK
A Krock on proposal and Govt-press relations
Date: 14 May 1961
By JOHN CANADAY
John CANADAY
Canaday on work of J Villon; contrasts his treatment of subjects from nature with that of Amer artists
Date: 13 May 1961
Special to The New York Times
Pentagon repts Adm sets new classification criteria to bar pub disclosure of intelligence gathering techniques; Moss charges McNamara with 'gross disservice' to US
Date: 14 May 1961
N J Goulandris Ltd denies it is US-owned or controlled and is thus exempt from organizing drives