MIKE SANDROLINI PHOTO Elmhurst Independent
Dennis Rodman, the flamboyant and colorful forward who was an integral part of three Chicago Bulls NBA championship teams during the 1990s, paid a visit to Mike’s Sports & More at the Yorktown Shopping Center in Lombard on Saturday. A long line of fans, many of them wearing Bulls attire, including Rodman’s No. 91 Bulls jersey—and some even coloring their hair like Rodman—got an opportunity to meet and have their photo taken with Rodman, 63, who was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2011. All told, Rodman played for five NBA championship teams (he also won two titles with the Detroit Pistons), was a seven-time NBA All-Defensive First Team honoree and led the NBA in rebounding seven consecutive seasons (from 1991 through 1998). Rodman sported a green goatee on Saturday … but he was wearing a cap, so no one could tell if he had colored his hair. Rodman’s appearance at Mike’s Sports & More was coordinated by Westmont-based Elite Icons Framing & Sports Memorabilia.