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Chicago Bulls: Dennis Rodman didn’t hurt the team leaving for WWE

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Dennis Rodman did some great things for the Chicago Bulls in the 1990’s, but leaving for a WWE match untimely during the 1998 finals was not his best move.

A controversial storyline that emerged during the Chicago Bulls 1998 NBA Finals against the Utah Jazz involved Hall-of-Fame forward Dennis Rodman leaving in the middle of the series to make it for a WWE match. This weird distraction for the team was highlighted in part 10 of the hit ESPN/ABC/Netflix documentary series focusing on that 1997-98 Bulls title-winning team called “The Last Dance”.