[odditycards]

found the list of the "others" that are going to N.Korea with Rodman.
Good/bad/indifferent??

"Dennis Rodman, Kenny Anderson, Cliff Robinson, Vin Baker, Craig Hodges, Doug Christie, and Charles D. Smith would play against the North Korean Senior National Team"

"SENIOR"???????

Are they playing an old-folks home??

I hear the losers are to be executed by public hanging...
(please Rodman...lose).

[bryandwells1]

laughed hearing this too. and he wrote a kid's book..... really?

[folkertino]

Great to hear you would like to see Rodman executed.

Anyway, I do agree that this whole event is quite sad and Rodman's desperate attempts for attention are now really becoming concerning - especially when the sake of an entire nation's people is being trivialized into a publicity stunt.

[dodgydave]

That's an "interesting" collection of players.

[odditycards]

Thought that would wrinkle you up a bit...lol.
He definitely is quite a character and keeps things interesting. He always did, even as a player! He's a train wreck...you just can't look away and want to see what's going to happen next!

Great to hear you would like to see Rodman executed.

Anyway, I do agree that this whole event is quite sad and Rodman's desperate attempts for attention are now really becoming concerning - especially when the sake of an entire nation's people is being trivialized into a publicity stunt.

[carrollm09]

It's public relations... Yes, Dennis is definitely a character, and he's not gaining any points stateside saying what a great guy Kim Jong Un is, but I can definitely get behind any positive relations in an otherwise volatile region. Realistically, though, if he came back saying what a jerk the guy was, relations would be over--it's not like anyone's actually buying his pro-North Korea rhetoric, anyways. Maybe nothing will come of it, in which case we'll all just forget about it, but maybe some good will actually come of it. Props to 'The Worm' for using his fame for something and hopefully in the end it has a positive affect.

[jeremy7269]

It's public relations... Yes, Dennis is definitely a character, and he's not gaining any points stateside saying what a great guy Kim Jong Un is, but I can definitely get behind any positive relations in an otherwise volatile region. Realistically, though, if he came back saying what a jerk the guy was, relations would be over--it's not like anyone's actually buying his pro-North Korea rhetoric, anyways. Maybe nothing will come of it, in which case we'll all just forget about it, but maybe some good will actually come of it. Props to 'The Worm' for using his fame for something and hopefully in the end it has a positive affect.

Do you think Rodman is really doing anything other than getting his name in the news?

[carrollm09]

Do you think Rodman is really doing anything other than getting his name in the news?

An excerpt from recent news:
http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/07/world/asia...is-rodman/

[Charles D.] Smith pointed out that the basketball players made up only a part of a group of about 50 people visiting North Korea, with other Americans among them.

Smith also sought to defend Rodman, saying the visit was about basketball, not politics.

The players were invited by North Korea, Smith said, and are there as a kind of "cultural exchange" and to "put smiles on people's faces," not to influence the country's leaders.

"We've been doing these games for 3½ years," he said. "Outside of what people know of Dennis, you don't know Dennis. He's got a great heart, his passion is about children and families, that's why we are here.

"We are here because it's about doing great will around the world."

Smith outlined the charity projects he has been involved in worldwide through his sport, including visiting typhoon victims in Asia.

"We're doing what we do, we play basketball and that's what we love to do," Smith said.

"We didn't know it was going to take this kind of negative spin with what we are doing because we're not politicians, we're not ambassadors. We're here to do what we've been doing most of our lives."

--I think as a whole the group had good intentions. Dennis Rodman may have a skewed perceptive of reality, and from the interviews it's quite clear that he's frustrated and even angry that people are spinning everything negatively. I don't pretend to think I know what his motives are, though.

[jeremy7269]

Hopefully there is some good that can come out of this.

I just see Rodman as a walking publicity stuff that looks for an opportunity to do the outrageous (i.e. lets put a wedding dress and make-up on).

Rodman is a good story of a trouble youth makes it big in the NBA. I think he has a greater testimony in that aspect of his life as opposed the avenue he is taking with North Korea.

I could be wrong (and I hope I am) and not giving Rodman a fair shake but I am going off his own history and the character he has displayed.

[vgqv]

I randomly met Rodzilla at a Hard Rock Casino. He was nice enough to greet me with a warm smile and shake my hand. It never bothered me that he wore a wedding dress or had unique hair color's and I never immediately put a label on him as some kind of a "freak". Because he isn't, he's a human being just like me and just like the people who are quick to judge, label and criticize others for being different. I don't see labels, I see people.