On a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast last week, The Smashing Pumpkins lead singer Billy Corgan said that he often partied with NBA Hall of Famer Dennis Rodman during the 1990s. However, Corgan revealed that he had trouble keeping pace with the five-time NBA champion when it came to the party scene.
Corgan first opened up to host Joe Rogan about a hilarious story regarding Dennis Rodman's body strength.
“You wouldn't look at him and think muscles,” Corgan said. “Rodman could pick a 250-pound man up with one hand and lift him over a rope. I saw him do it at a club. Some guy was acting up, Dennis reached over to the guy and picked him up like this.”
Another funny story shared by Corgan was a time that he and Rodman boarded a billionaire's private jet to Las Vegas following one of the Chicago Bulls' games against legendary power forward Karl Malone and the Utah Jazz in the 1996-97 NBA Finals.
Corgan recalled that he and Rodman stayed out all night gambling and then flew back on the private jet to Salt Lake City the next morning so Rodman could attend a media session.
“9 a.m., I'm sitting in the stands, I haven't slept at all. They do the shootaround and Dennis walks up and says ‘Let's go back,'” Corgan said. “So after the morning shootaround, (Rodman) drove to the airport to fly commercial because now the billionaire's not flying back again.”
Corgan instead decided to stay behind and go to a miniature golf course in Park City, where he crossed paths with legendary Bulls head coach Phil Jackson.
“Phil's giving me the look of death because I'm the one responsible for Dennis going to Vegas. I'm the bad guy,” Corgan said. “And I'm thinking, ‘you don't understand, I'm the one who told him not to go.'”
A video of Corgan telling his stories about Rodman can be viewed below:
Dennis Rodman, who is highly regarded for his outrageous personality and exceptional rebounding ability, won back-to-back NBA championships in 1989 and 1990 with the Detroit Pistons and three-peated with the Bulls in the 1996, 1997, and 1998 seasons.
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