Why Dennis rodman didn't get pick in the all star game when he played for the Bulls??

[Lebron23]

He was leading the NBA in rebounds per game from 1996 to 1998. He missed several games in 1996 and 1997, but he played 80 games in 1998. Did the NBA coaches hate him?? He was kinda very popular during that time.

[TheMarkMadsen]

TNT and TBS aired the all star game and they also aired Nitro at the time

Rodman was NWO 4 Lyfe and rumor has it that Turner didn't want to take the chance of the NWO showing up at the ASG and destroying MJ with the atomic leg drop/outsiders edge on his station in classic NWO double turn fashion

hope that helps man

[SamuraiSWISH]

Because he was an amazing defensive ROLE PLAYER

[Lebron23]

TNT and TBS aired the all star game and they also aired Nitro at the time

Rodman was NWO 4 Lyfe and rumor has it that Turner didn't want to take the chance of the NWO showing up at the ASG and destroying MJ with the atomic leg drop/outsiders edge on his station in classic NWO double turn fashion

hope that helps man

Because he was an amazing defensive ROLE PLAYER

Fans love his antics. He was more exciting than Current Kawhi Leonard.

[Cleverness]

Because he was an amazing defensive ROLE PLAYER

Was he more than this when he was selected to the ASG twice with Detroit?

His numbers were better with Chicago, too.

[Vancouver-Grizz]

back then all star games was all about offensive players. It wasn't until Ben Wallace got selected then more defensive players got recognized.

[KembaWalker]

TNT and TBS aired the all star game and they also aired Nitro at the time

Rodman was NWO 4 Lyfe and rumor has it that Turner didn't want to take the chance of the NWO showing up at the ASG and destroying MJ with the atomic leg drop/outsiders edge on his station in classic NWO double turn fashion

hope that helps man

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[masonanddixon]

You were probably like two years old when Rodman was a Bull but he was nowhere near All Star level during that time. It would be like saying PJ Tucker should be an all star.

[SHAQisGOAT]

back then all star games was all about offensive players. It wasn't until Ben Wallace got selected then more defensive players got recognized.

Tbh, Rodman was an all-star in 1990 and 1992.

You're easily stretching it...
Dudes like Mark Eaton, Bobby Jones, Don Buse, Lonnie Shelton, Mo Cheeks, Lionel Hollins, Van Lier, Bill Briges... Were all-stars at some point, not saying plenty weren't even pretty good in other areas too (some efficient scoring, rebounding, passing...) but they were all great defensive players in their prime and that was mostly their bread-n-butter, what they were mostly "known" for.

You were probably like two years old when Rodman was a Bull but he was nowhere near All Star level during that time. It would be like saying PJ Tucker should be an all star.

Yea, you're going way too far...


Bit off-topic:

Just realized the other day that Rodman shot 101 threes in 1992, making 32 of them... That's 31.7% on 1.2 attempts.
Now, he was never a complete inept shooter or something, he could hit jumpers here and there when left wide-open, he brought some solid, efficient from the field scoring in his younger years, but I didn't recall him having that type of decent shooting season from 3pt-land.
And that's with scoring 9.8 PPG on 53.9% from the field, to go along with 18.7 RPG (easily led the league), 2.3 APG, almost 1 steal/block per game, and ofc that tremendous, extremely versatile m2m defense. 10th in MVP voting that year.

[L.Kizzle]

Because forwards like Jayson Williams, Antoine Walker, Christian Laettner, Vin Baker and Juwon Howard were easily better.

[Dro]

You were probably like two years old when Rodman was a Bull but he was nowhere near All Star level during that time. It would be like saying PJ Tucker should be an all star.

You say the dumbest sh*t...I'm going to assume all of your posts are trolling from now on.......

[iamgine]

Because they already had Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen in the ASG.

[3ball]

Rodman won his back-to-back DPOY awards (1990, 1991) as a SF.

At that time, Rodman was elite at defending both the interior (Barkley, Malone) and the perimeter (Dominique, Pippen, MJ, Drexler).. Later in his career as a Spur and Bull, he played PF.. By then he was a slower player who ONLY guarded the interior.. That's the difference.

Here are several 3 minute videos highighting all the possessions Rodman guarded MJ in the 1989 ECF (6 videos for the 6 games):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8Z2vU7TDh8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5hlC8hN3B0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXanXLkiz70
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av3pm_igVqA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtPVBkcCE8I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLOzBnzgk4E


Here's a thread showing GIF's of 28 field goals made by MJ when guarded heads-up by Rodman:

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/sho...94&postcount=4

[SamuraiSWISH]

Was he more than this when he was selected to the ASG twice with Detroit?

His numbers were better with Chicago, too.

His rebound numbers, yes, but when he played SF for the back to back Pistons he was a better PLAYER. He wasn't obsessed exclusively with rebounds at the expense of everything else. He could defend perimeter players, and low block players at an equally high level. He couldn't do that as a Bull. Or even in San Antonio.

[Jameerthefear]

The media didn't want to expose MJ. Having that much talent on the team would expose MJ so hard he'd retire.