NBA: 30 NBA players you forgot acted in movies or TV shows

NBA: 30 NBA players you forgot acted in movies or TV shows – Dennis Rodman

Dennis Rodman became a household name as part of one of the greatest basketball teams in NBA history, the rebounding defensive forward playing alongside Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen in the late 1990s. The stories about Rodman from The Last Dance documentary alone are as entertaining as anything you will find at Blockbuster (err, on Netflix, I mean).

That being said, Rodman certainly showed up in a variety of films and shows. The most

painful

wonderful

prominent of these was his role as an arms dealer in the Jean-Claude Van Damme action movie Double Team. Somehow the climax of that movie ends with Van Damme and Mickey Rourke facing off in a sand-covered arena with a tiger and a baby in a basket, with Rodman driving in on a motorbike to save the baby and allow Van Damme and Rourke to have their classic fight.

Apparently, Hollywood producers were so impressed that they cast him as the lead in 1999 action/spy film Simon Sez as an Interpol agent alongside Dane Cook. If that sounds like the recipe for a successful movie…you would be wrong. Rotten Tomatoes rates it at 0%, and it appears on innumerable lists of the worst movies of all time.