The Rush: Michael Jordan reveals Rodman’s shocking request during the Bulls “last dance”
In last night’s episodes of The Last Dance, Michael Jordan reveals a shocking request Dennis Rodman made during the ‘97-’98 season, the New Orleans Saints used free agency to add quarterback depth, extending Taysom Hill and signing Jameis Winston to a one year deal. PLUS Jay Cutler and Kristin Cavallari are kaput, the TV ratings are in for the virtual NFL Draft, Doug Collins’ mullet was a thing of beauty, and Jared announces a fake-cation that would make Dennis Rodman jealous.
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MICHAEL JORDAN: Phil calls me and says, look. You know, Dennis wants to tell you something. And when Dennis wants to tell me something, I knew it's not something that I [BLEEP] want to hear.
JARED QUAY: Dennis Rodman was trending on Twitter last night, and it ain't 'cause Kim Jong-un went AWOL. The next two episodes of "The Last Dance" dropped. And later, you'll find out what story MJ told that had even the Worm in stitches. But first, we got to talk about what you were watching the rest of the weekend. And no, I'm not talking about Kristin Cavallari's Instagram post announcing that she and Jay Cutler are getting divorced.
JAY CUTLER: Are you, like, trying to mock me? Like, I don't understand.
JARED QUAY: I'm talking about the NFL draft. 55 million people tuned into the NFL's virtual draft, making it the most-watched draft in history. That's when we saw teams like the Bengals, Dolphins, and Chargers address their quarterbacks of the future.
As for the Saints, they waited until after the draft. And it's kind of getting messy. They extended Taysom Hill until 2021, ensuring he'll be there if Drew Brees calls it quits, then signed Jameis Winston on a one-year deal. Look, I never doubt Sean Payton's way. But what is his obsession with signing Pro Bowl quarterbacks to be his backup's backup?
- What does it mean?
JARED QUAY: This Jameis signing's a head-scratcher. I can't tell if he's the worst good player or the best bad player.
While we're talking about bad players, let's get to one of the baddest of 'em all. Episodes three and four of the MJ doc dropped last night. And even though we got to watch the Bad Boy Pistons beat the hell out of Michael, Bulls players gambling together, and Doug Collins' mullet, the real juicy stuff came in episode three.
DENNIS RODMAN: [LAUGHS]
JARED QUAY: In 1997, Rodman asked Phil Jackson if he could take some time off midseason to go to Vegas.
MICHAEL JORDAN: Phil, you let this dude go to vacation, we're not going to see him. You let him go to Vegas, we definitely are not going to see him.
DENNIS RODMAN: [LAUGHS]
MICHAEL JORDAN: He looks at Dennis and says, Dennis, well, can your vacation be, like, 48 hours? And Dennis is like, I got no other choice. I'll take whatever you can give me. I'll take the 48 hours.
JARED QUAY: You know, now that I think about it, I need a vacation. That's right, I gotta stay sharp as a host, and I need my rest and recovery. So I don't need one of them 48-hour Dennis Rodman ones. I need one of them two weeks paid with a little bit of a raise.
And you know what? I'm going to need an RV. That's right. 'Cause, you know, with the coronavirus. I can't-- I got to stay in the house, so why not take the house with me? But I'm going to go all the way to the Grand Canyon. And then I think I'm going to go to Yellowstone, 'cause Yellowstone got some cool mountains. And then I'm going to go up to the Northwest, and I'm going to see-- you know, I'm going to skip Portland. Portland weird.
And where's Mount Everest? I always wanted to see Mount Everest. Do you think I could take an RV to Mount Everest? I'm gonna go probably to the University of Washington-- just see what it looks like, 'cause I ain't never really seen University of Washington when nobody's there. Heard it's a really beautiful campus.
Then I might go to Canada. I don't know if Canada's letting us in, though, because of the coronavirus. But if they do-- actually, you know, I'm going to ask that for my package. I'm going to tell everybody at Yahoo they need to see if they can give me a passport clearance to Canada.
- This mother-[BLEEP].
JARED QUAY: Yeah, that's probably what I'm going to need to do for two weeks to get my mind right to be able to host The Rush.
