Former NBA star Dennis Rodman brought his basketball skills on Tuesday and flamboyant style, tattoos, nose studs and all, to a country with possibly the world’s strictest dress code: North Korea.
Dennis Rodman and some members of the Harlem Globetrotters are in Pyongyang for a filmed visit dubbed “basketball diplomacy” by the film company. Rodman is scheduled to lead a basketball clinic for children and shoot hoops with top North Korean players for a Vice production that’s set to air on HBO in April.
I’m not a politician. Kim Jung Un & North Korean people are basketball fans. I love everyone. Period. End of story.
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Rodman’s a world traveler …
In 2005, Rodman made two visits to Finland. At first, he was present at Sonkajärvi in July in a wife-carrying contest. However, he resigned from the contest due to health problems.”When did I marry Oprah?” In November, he played one match for Torpan Pojat of the Finland’s basketball league, Korisliiga.
About one year ago Dennis Rodman, 51, was in an Orange County, California courtroom facing up to 20 days in jail for failing to make child support and spousal support payments. Court documents were file by Wife #3 Michelle Rodman’s attorney Jack Kayajanian. Rodman said he’s “extremely sick” and his marketability is diminishing with age and illness.
HBO VICE video promotion. VICE premieres Friday, April 5, 2013.
According to the VICE HBO website …
VICE, a news magazine series featuring startling, groundbreaking stories from around the world, debuts this spring, exclusively on HBO. VICE smashes barriers of decorum to cover such stories as out-of-control political assassinations in the Philippines, the sumo/Mixed Martial Arts craze that has swept Senegal and the precarious nuclear stare-down in Kashmir. VICE’s fearless approach is like nothing else on television and will show some of the scariest, weirdest and most absurd customs and practices known to humanity.
VICE is executive produced by Bill Maher, Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti, VICE’s chief creative officer, with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria serving as consultant. The show takes its name from the leading youth entertainment company operating in over 34 countries including vice.com; an international network of digital channels; a television production studio; a print magazine; a record label; an in-house creative services agency; and a book-publishing division.
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