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Dennis Rodman’s Net Worth 2022: Early Life, Professional Basketball Career & More Details!
Rodman, a former professional basketball player turned actor and political operative, is worth $500k, according to Forbes. He is best remembered for his stint with the Pistons in the late 1980s and the Bulls in the early 1990s. Since then, he has worked as a sort of liaison between the United States and North Korea.
Dennis earned $27 million in compensation during his NBA career, which works out to almost $43 million now when inflation is taken into account. The year 1996-97 was his highest-earning year when he made $9 million, which is around $15 million today. At the time, he was the league’s 10th-highest-paid player. Dennis, on the other hand, had a much more lavish lifestyle and had a lot of financial setbacks in his later years.
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Dennis Rodman
| Net Worth: | $500 Thousand |
| Date of Birth: | May 13, 1961 (61 years old) |
| Gender: | Male |
| Height: | 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) |
| Profession: | Wrestler, Actor, Basketball player, Athlete, Basketball Coach, Entertainer |
| Nationality: | United States of America |
Early Life
Dennis Rodman was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on May 13, 1961. There are 47 children in his father’s family, and Rodman is thought to be the eldest. No, that wasn’t a mistake. Dennis’ father, Philander, was named after a character in the film. Despite his father’s departure and subsequent relocation to the Philippines, Rodman was raised by his single mother, Shirley, in Dallas, Texas. He hadn’t seen his father since 2012 when he finally did. As soon as Rodman finished from South Oak Cliff High School, he began working as a midnight janitor at DFW Airport.
Because he was only 5’6″, he couldn’t play on any of his high school’s athletic teams. He returned to basketball following a remarkable growth spurt that saw him reach a height of 6’7″. He only lasted one semester at Cooke County College before he was expelled for academic failure. At Southeastern Oklahoma State University, he excelled and was awarded Most Valuable Player accolades for his performance.
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Professional Basketball Career
The Detroit Pistons became interested in Rodman while he was a student at the University of Michigan. Dennis was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the second round of the NBA draught in 1986. Detroit Pistons from 1993 to 1993, then spent time with the San Antonio Spurs, Chicago Bulls, LA Lakers, and Dallas Mavericks after that. This marked the end of his professional basketball career when he was released by the Bulls in 2000.
Dennis Rodman, better known as “The Worm,” was a legendary rebounder and defender who was also notorious for his wild antics off the court. As a two-time NBA All-Star and seven-time (consecutively) NBA rebounding champion, he won five NBA championships.
He was named to the NBA All-Defensive First Team seven times and won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year award two times throughout his illustrious career. In April 2011, his number 10 Detroit Pistons jersey was retired. the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inducted him the same year.
Rodman averaged 7.3 points and 13.1 rebounds per game in just 31.7 minutes per game during his 14 seasons in the NBA, playing in 911 games, scoring 6,683 points, and grabbing 11,954 rebounds.
Wrestling Career
Rodman competed in the World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1997 to 1999. (World Championship Wrestling). He’d always had it as a side interest, but after he retired from basketball, he became more dedicated to it. During a Bash at the Beach event in July of 1997, he played his first match.
He and Hulk Hogan were defeated by Lex Luger and The Giant in a tag team match. At the Road Wild event in August 1997, Hogan and Rodman again worked together to help Hogan win the WCW World Heavyweight Championship. Before returning to WCW in 1999, he held a few more Bash the Beach events before going on a vacation.
Rodman announced his retirement from professional wrestling in July 2000 after a match with Curt Henning at the i-Generation Superstars of the Wrestling pay-per-view event. When he appeared on Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling in 2008, he briefly came out of retirement. After beating Eric Esch and Dustin Diamond, he has crowned the series’ victor.
Other Pursuits
It was 1996 when Rodman debuted his reality series on MTV, titled The Rodman World Tour. An action film with Mickey Rourke and Jean-Claude Van Damme was his debut feature film role a year later. He won three Golden Rasberry Awards for his performance in the critically panned picture. In 1999, he appeared in Simon Sez, and in 2000, he appeared in Cutaway. On television, he has appeared as himself in several productions, most notably 3rd Rock from the Sun.
He was the first male to ever appear bare-chested for PETA in 2005. As of 2005, Rodman was the Lingerie Football League’s Commissioner. The UK edition of Celebrity Big Brother featured him in 2006, as did Love Island, a British reality show featuring celebrities. After winning the $222,000 grand prize on Celebrity Mole, he appeared on ABC’s Celebrity Mole. He appeared on two episodes of Celebrity Apprentice: 2009 and 2013.
During the last few years, Rodman has taken on a diplomatic role in North Korea. When he visited North Korea for the first time in 2013, he organized a basketball exhibition. Even after the travel limitations were lifted, he returned a couple more times. Rodman was instrumental in brokering a historic summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Singapore in June 2018. In 2018, Rodman signed a deal with Pot Coin, a cryptocurrency firm. Pot Coin tees and hats are a staple in his North Korean wardrobe.
He has produced two autobiographies, both of which he has become famous for promoting. In 1996, he advertised his debut book, Bad as I Wanna Be, while dressed as a bride. He advertised his second book, I Should Be Dead By Now, in a coffin for the duration of its promotional tour in 2005.
Personal Life
When Rodman and Annie Bakes were married in the early 1990s, they were divorced. Alexis, their only child, was born in 1988. In November 1998, Rodman married Carmen Electra in Las Vegas’ Little Chapel of the Flowers. After only four months of separation, Electra filed for divorce. In 2003, Rodman wed Michelle Moyer. Dennis and Trinity had a son and a daughter. There are two athletes in the family: Dennis Jr. will play collegiate hoops for Washington State in 2019 and his sister Trinity will play for the Cougars in women’s soccer in 2020. Michelle filed for divorce from her husband in 2004, but they tried to patch things up for a long time. In 2012, they filed for divorce.
Rodman has a history of alcoholism. He was compelled to pay $2,000 in fines in 1999 after he was caught driving under the influence of alcohol. In April of that year, he was detained for DUI again. In May of that year, he checked into a Florida rehab facility. Family and friends tried to get him into rehab in 2009, but he relapsed and refused. Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew, the third season, was a no-brainer for him. To get his life back, he went to the Pasadena Recovery Center for treatment.
After that, he moved into a sober residence in the Hollywood Hills. When he arrived at Shirley’s house, he found his mother. Since then, they had not spoken. Rodman was ejected from a Los Angeles restaurant in January 2010 for causing a disturbance. For the second time in two years, Dennis Rodman went to treatment for alcohol misuse in January 2014, after his agent, Darren Prince, described a binge that “none of us had ever seen before.”
Financial Problems
Dennis Rodman appeared in court in Detroit on March 27th, 2012, to answer claims that he owes an ex-wife over $800,000 in child support. Lawyers for Dennis Rodman claimed that the former basketball star was broke and unable to pay a penny. Keep in mind that Rodman’s pay alone was just about $27 million during his NBA career, which is a lot of money.
From endorsements, book sales, appearance fees, and more, he made millions of dollars. In addition to the fines and bans he received, he also lost a significant amount of money. It cost him $200,000 and 11 games in 1997 when he kicked an official who was trying to stop him in his tracks. He lost $1 million in profits as a result of the incident.
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