Dennis Rodman

Dennis Rodman loves his outsider image. He believes that as much as he is an athlete, he is first and foremost an entertainer. "I tried something bold," he told Playboy magazine, referring to his lifestyle. "I created something that everyone has been afraid of … the Dennis Rodman I was born to be."

Regardless of what basketball fans or critics think of Rodman's behavior, whether they find it reprehensible or, as Rodman hopes, entertaining, the numbers he amassed as a rebounder during his fourteen seasons in the NBA speak for themselves. He's been compared in his rebounding skills with such greats as Wilt Chamberlain, Moses Malone, and Bill Russell, all of whom had a height and weight advantage over the shorter, slimmer Rodman.

"I'm something I shouldn't have been," Rodman told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "I should have been an average Joe Blow, nine to five."