During the third episode of "The Last Dance" documentary on the 1997-98 Chicago Bulls, Warriors coach Steve Kerr had some great quotes.

Here is how he described Dennis Rodman:

"Everybody understood Dennis' impact on the group. And we understood that he had different needs in his personal life than we did.

Dennis was bizarre. But I think what made it work was Phil (Jackson) and Michael (Jordan's)understanding that to get the most out of him on the court, you had to give him some rope.

"And they gave him a lot of rope."

The main example of "rope"was how in mid-January 1998 -- shortly after Scottie Pippen made his season debut (against the Warriors)-- Rodman had a request.

Let's let Michael Jordan's description of the events take over from here:

"While Scottie was out, Dennis was a model citizen to apoint where it was driving him fu--in'insane (laughter).So when Scottie came back, Dennis wanted to take a vacation. I come to practice, Phil calls me in and says, 'Look, Dennis wants to tell you something.'

When Dennis wants to tell me something, I knew it's not something that I'll fu--in'want to hear. So Dennis says, 'I need a vacation.' And I look at Phil, say, 'Phil what do you mean, a vacation?' He says, 'He needs a vacation.He needs some time off to let loose.' I said, 'Look Phil, let me tell you something man. If anybody need a fu--in'vacation, I need a vacation.' We look at Dennis, said, 'Dennis, what are you gonna do?' He says, 'Well, I need to go to Vegas.'

Phil, if you let this dudego to vacation, we're not gonna see him. You let him go to Vegas, we're definitely not gonna see him. So he looks at Dennis and says, 'Dennis, well, can your vacation belike 48 hours?' And Dennis is like, 'I got no other choice. I'll take whatever you can give me. I'll take the 48 hours.' '48 hours. You got 48 hours, Dennis' And I'm looking at Phil like, 'You ain't gonna get that dude back in 48 hours. I don't care what you say. He's done. Okay, 48 hours.' He leaves that room, goes straight to the airport. Boom. We don't hear or see Dennis for 48 hours."

Rodman then comes on camera, says"I went to the f------g Vegas," and starts laughing hard.

It was hilarious.

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In case you're curious -- the Bulls won both games that Rodman missed.

So after 48 hours, he simply returned to Chicago and arrived at practice with no issues? Well, not exactly.

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As Jordan and Rodman's ex-wife, Carmen Electra, explained:

Jordan: "He didn't come back on time. We had to go get his a--out of bed. And I'm not gonna say what's in his bed or where he was or blah blah blah."

Electra: "There's a knock on the door, it's Michael Jordan. And I hid (laughter).I didn't want him to see me like that. So I'm just like hiding behind the couch with covers over me. 'Come on, we got to get to practice.'"

What a story.

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