{"id":9127,"date":"2011-08-15T15:36:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9127"},"modified":"2011-08-15T15:36:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T19:36:41","slug":"rodman-mullin-enshrined-into-naismith-memorial-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9127","title":{"rendered":"Rodman, Mullin Enshrined Into Naismith Memorial Hall Of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SPRINGFIELD, Mass.<\/strong> \u2014 Recognized for his basketball talents, <strong>Dennis Rodman<\/strong> instead talked about his personal shortcomings. He hasn\u2019t been a very good husband or father. His relationship with his mother has been strained.<\/p>\n<p>But he had four men he could turn to no matter how hard times got.<\/p>\n<p>Choking up often during an emotional speech, <strong>Rodman<\/strong> was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked <strong>Commissioner David Ster<\/strong>n and the NBA community \u201cto even just have me in the building\u201d and saved his deepest appreciation for coaches <strong>Phil Jackson<\/strong> and <strong>Chuck Daly<\/strong>, Lakers owner <strong>Jerry Buss<\/strong>, and <strong>James Rich<\/strong>, whose family took <strong>Rodman<\/strong> in after his mother threw him out of the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPRINGFIELD, Mass. \u2014 Recognized for his basketball talents, Dennis Rodman instead talked about his personal shortcomings. He hasn\u2019t been a very good husband or father. His relationship with his mother has been strained. But he had four men he could turn to no matter how hard times got. Choking up often during an emotional speech, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}