Dennis "The Worm" Rodman was born in Trenton, New Jersey, but grew up in Dallas's infamous Oak Cliff housing projects. A gangly small child, Rodman lived in the shadows of his two extremely tall older sisters, both of whom were adept with a basketball. In his autobiography Bad As I Wanna Be, he describes feeling invisible and clumsy growing up. Everything changed in his late teens, however, when he grew by more than a foot. In his autobiography he announces, "It was like I had a new body that knew how to do all this shit the old one didn't." At age twenty-one Rodman's new body allowed him to transform himself from a nobody who stole wristwatches and worked the janitorial night shift at the local airport into a somebody who played basketball. After a junior college recruited Rodman to play in the late...