 Dennis Rodman is once again in trouble with the law. He was arrested on Wednesday night, April 30th, at a hotel in Century City, California, and was booked on suspicion of domestic violence. The spokesman for the Los Angeles police department stated that “During the investigation, police learned he (speaking of Rodman) had hit a woman and she suffered injuries to her arms.” A few hours after Rodman's arrest, he was released on $50,000 bail. I would guess that even the most casual fan of the NBA was not surprised upon hearing that Rodman was once again arrested, but apparently Rodman's agent, Steve Simon, does not qualify as a casual fan. Upon hearing of Rodman's arrest, Simon made the following comment: “The legal process will sort itself out. I'm kind of waiting for the facts to unfold because it's really uncharacteristic for him.” I initially thought that Simon was either delusional, or totally ignorant of Rodman's history, or trying to play the straight man to Rodman's “comedic” antics in order to get booked at the Improv. But upon further review, I think that I understand the point that Simon was attempting to make, and I have to admit that I am in total agreement with Simon's assessment of Rodman's latest problems. Allow me to explain.
In the first place, Rodman's recent physical attack was uncharacteristic in that it did not involve the groin of a man. No doubt, Simon was thinking back upon Rodman's basketball career and he was remembering Dennis kicking that cameraman, Eugene Amos, in the groin in January of 1997, and remembering that in March of that same year Rodman swatted Milwaukee's Joe Wolf in the groin. Additionally, this latest incident with Rodman was uncharacteristic because, as far as we can tell from the reports of the story, this incident did not involve loud music nor did it involve the Newport Beach police. The Newport Beach Police have responded to complaints of excessive noise at Rodman's house eighty times during the past eight years. When Simon found out that the Los Angeles police rather than the Newport Beach police had arrested Rodman, of course he concluded that such an arrest was very un-Rodman-like. Simon was probably also thinking back to the time at Hennessey's Tavern in Laguna Beach when a complaint was filed on Rodman for smacking a woman's buttocks, and Simon concluded that since the current assault involved a woman's arms rather than her buttocks, it was not behavior that he would expect of Rodman. This latest action by Rodman did not involve headbutting a referee, or stealing a hat and gasoline, or driving a car while intoxicated, or driving a boat while intoxicated, or jamming his hand in a woman's dress and sexually assaulting her, or making demeaning remarks about Mormons. So you can plainly see that Simon was right. This latest incident involving Dennis was very uncharacteristic. Somebody needs to get the word to Dennis. There are thousands of us basketball fans out here who love him. We love him for the fact that he always left it all on the floor. We love him for being the little guy that always out-rebounded the big guys. We love him because his rebounding crowns were won through sheer desire. We want him to make it to the NBA Hall of Fame. But there won't be much chance of an enshrinement if the enshrinee is behind prison bars. Somebody tell Dennis to stop being Dennis. Dennis needs to pursue what is right with the same desire that he had for a ball coming off the rim. And by the way, tell him to get rid of that sycophant, Simon.
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