Dennis Rodman: 'Being Famous Is A Hard Job'

The Miami Herald's Dan Le Batard catches up with everyone's favorite tattooed rebounder, Dennis Rodman, who is up for the NBA Hall of Fame this year, and oddly, hates his fame. 

"I hate it,'' Dennis Rodman says. "Absolutely hate it.''

Anything about it you like?

Rodman has been rambling for an hour. Cursing. Laughing extra long and loud. Acting the way he always has to hide the scared and scarred child buried underneath all that colorful armor. He is used to being the center of his attention, so he sermonizes in the disjointed way of someone who has spent decades gazing down upon nodding heads and stars-truck eyes without interruption. But now there is a long pause.

Anything at all you like about fame, Dennis? "Not being alone,'' he finally says.

There is, of course, some good that has come from Rodman's fame: in creating a raffle to help a friend who has lost nearly everything, The Worm is at the same time providing donations for Fort Lauderdale's Mission of St. Francis, which gives beds and other aid to the homeless.