Dennis Rodman, one of the most colorful personalities in NBA history, is campaigning for the Knicks coaching job after news broke on Monday of Derek Fisher’s firing.
Rodman was a crucial part of several of Phil Jackson’s championship Bulls teams, and he definitely has some recruiting chops. He has somehow struck up a friendship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, and rounded up a team of retired NBA vets including Kenny Anderson, Vin Baker and Charles Smith among others to play a game in North Korea. If he can convince people to willingly travel to North Korea, he may be able to talk some free agents into joining his team in the NBA.
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Still, Rodman’s personality won’t mesh in New York with Phil Jackson’s. If he’s really serious about coaching in the NBA, he should wait out George Karl’s inevitable firing in Sacramento, and try to get in with the Kings. All the pieces are in place.
The Kings have an immensely talented malcontent in DeMarcus Cousins, a cerebral, moody, and confrontational point guard in Rajon Rondo, a GM in Vlade Divac as unqualified for the job as Rodman is to coach an NBA team, and an owner, Vivek Ranadive, who might be the most ridiculous owner in NBA history.
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The league once had to change its rules to prevent ex-Cavaliers owner Ted Stepien from trading away all of his first-round picks, and yet that seems less foolish than Ranadive seriously suggesting the Kings attempt to play 4-on-5 on defense with a cherry-picker waiting at the other end of the court. That's a true story.
They are dysfunctional enough to welcome Rodman with open arms, and who knows, maybe he’s crazy enough to reach Cousins and Rondo and teach them how he was able to blend his quirks in with a championship team. At this point, what do the Kings have to lose?
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