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RODMAN’S REUNION WITH FATHER TURNS UGLY: Pops shows up to Worm’s game with camera crew; Rodman felt used.
*Dennis Rodman, who hadn’t seen his father in over a decade, found himself face to face with the man recently during an exhibition basketball game in Manila. But instead of kisses and hugs between the estranged pair, there were only punches.
According to Rodman’s agent Darren Prince, the athlete’s dad, Philander, showed up at the game "with a camera crew and an entourage of eight people and two bodyguards - he had apparently sold the rights to get him on camera with Dennis.”
A fight broke out, and Philander allegedly tried to punch Rodman’s bodyguard, but missed.
“Dennis felt used and was angry as his father has made only one attempt in 40 years to see or talk to him, and that was in 1996 when he wanted the rights to write a book about Dennis," Prince told the New York Post.
Undeterred, Philander later went to Rodman’s hotel, with camera crew in tow, and was promptly chased away by armed guards. According to Prince, "hundreds of fans" soon got a whiff of what was going on and began chanting: “Get out of here, you deadbeat dad."
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