Dennis Rodman is not just any former player. During his career he won five NBA championship rings (89 and 90 with the ‘Bad Boys’ of the Detroit Pistons and 96, 97 and 98 with Michael Jordan‘s Chicago Bulls) and has been one of the best rebounders in the history of the League (seven times top rebounder from 92 to 97 consecutively), being included seven times in the best defensive quintet of the NBA.

A member of the prestigious Hall Of Fame since 2011, he was always a wayward and controversial guy on and off the court, where his eccentricities, especially with women, ended up overshadowing his facet as a basketball star.

In his autobiographical book ‘I Should Be Dead By Now: The Wild and Crazy Times of the NBA’s Greatest Rebounder’, he tells in detail what his sex life was like before he met Carmen Electra, one of the stars of Baywatch, with whom he had a fling. And, as he says, she was the one who changed his way of relating to women.

Rodman was trying to get rid of his habit of going out with a new girl every night, but he had a surprising revelation that sex became a job. Soon after, he started dating Electra and said he found love with her, albeit briefly.

“I don’t know what it was. Maybe it was because, at that point in my life, I was having sex with so many different women. So many that, at times, it became a job,” Rodman said. “With Carmen it was different. It was nice to be with someone waiting for the right time, the right place, the right moment.”

He recalls how one of his first dates with the actress marked him: “Do you really live here?” asked Carmen the first time he took her home. “Yes,” Rodman said.

“We went out for sushi, came home, lay in bed and looked at each other and talked, talked, talked. She was there for four or five days, sleeping at my house, in my bed, and we never made love. It was something unreal,” he explains in his book.

The Pistons and Bulls star showed his most human side with the woman he fell in love with. It was nothing like his sexual escapades before meeting her, when he considered himself a playboy.

He famously told of how he broke his penis three times from sex, once on a boat.

“Me and my girlfriend, we were on the back of the boat in a kingsize bed and she said ‘I think I’m going to try something different’,” Rodman told Vice TV.

“She told me to walk over there and told me to run and jump in her p***y.

“There was blood everywhere. She’s screaming and screaming ‘Oh my God, he’s dead’.

“I said ‘No, honey, I just broke my d*ck’.”

The basketball player added that this was just one of three times that he suffered such an injury.