Turner Sports sideline reporter Craig Sager has impacted many during his long career, including Dennis Rodman, who Sager said he helped to reconsider thoughts of suicide.
In an extensive interview with Sports Illustrated's Lee Jenkins that ran Tuesday, Sager explained how he found Rodman at a Detroit strip club called The Landing Strip in 1993 and talked him out of taking his own life.
"He had the gun. He was going to do it. I told him how stupid that would be," said Sager, per Jenkins.
Rodman was playing for the Detroit Pistons at the time and was dealing with the aftermath of his failed marriage to Annie Bakes and contemplated suicide. Rodman, now 54, wrote about a time he felt suicidal in his 1996 autobiography, Bad as I Wanna Be (h/t the Washington Post). It appears the account in the book is from a separate time than the one Sager described.
After winning two NBA championships as a member of the Bad Boy-era Detroit Pistons, Rodman was traded to the San Antonio Spurs in October 1993, six months after the events of his autobiography. He played in Texas for two seasons b ...
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Craig Sager Says He Talked Dennis Rodman Out of Suicide in 1993
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