would have to rest one of their imports for a game then.

it is the one game u hope rodman goes nuts and punches his coach.

A UK league pulled the same stunt and got world-wide news coverage for UKP20-25k. Interesting gamble.

Need 4,000 sales at $15 a hit to cover a $60k outlay. Even if they only got 2,000 extra, they'd cover part of their expense.

I would go see it if it were a Melbourne based Dragons game

How do they get on with all of that under the cap, etc? Or would the NBL let it off as an exception to the rules given the once off nature?

Is this the same team that MJ is going to be coaching??????

http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,22337861-23769,00.html

Rodman to make NBL cameo

By Grantley Bernard, August 31, 2007

SOUTH Dragons is set to pull-off an audacious publicity stunt by signing former NBA bad boy Dennis Rodman to a one-game contract.

The Dragons is believed to have offered Rodman - known for his tattoos, piercings, dyed hair and erratic behaviour as much as his basketball achievements - about $80,000 for the one-off game.

Booga....YEAH BABY!!!!! Should have 5 balls for that one.

Is this actually worth it? I'd probably go for the novelty value, but I'm a Dragons fan. I probably would have gone anyway.

But the guy is 46, most of the GENERAL public would think he's only a head case and not understand that he was also an outright star.

I just don't know if people in the general populace would actually care enough.

Interesting move. I would have looked at paying a bit more and seeing if they could borrow Lebron (although pretty sure the Cavs don't like the Dragons any more) or another LEGIT player.

Kev, no cap issues - this would only be for a pre-season game.

I think it's a great publicity move to get the old school bball fans out of the woodwork. Fans that have dropped off in Melbourne through the various clubs folding over time.

I wouldnt be surprised if they charged more with perhaps tiered level pricing.

A good way to get casual bball fans out to see the Dragons and perhaps get them along to more games.

$80K for a pre season game? If the South Dragons can afford that, then they can afford to flout the salary cap. If they can be seen spending this much on a pre season game, then they will spend over the cap for the "real" games. Anyone paying extra money to see this player making no difference whatsover to this team is an idiot.

Is that you Scott?

Not sure which of the three is sadder???

a) Dennis Rodman still pimping himself based on what he did 10+ years ago (at the age of ~46???)...

b) The fact that the Dragons actually are considering this...

c) There are potentially (otherwise why do it???) people who would consider this a "kicker" to get them to a game...

Sigh...

to be honest as much fun as it would to see mr bad boy play i'd rather hang out in town and see if the myths are true.

Hopefully the dragons game is played in Adelaide on October the 6th , cause I cant make it!

EC, don't be ridiculous.

It's marketing. Forget about the salary cap and contrast $80k on Rodman against $80k of back of bus ads (waste of money), radio ads (probably not much better), etc. They could get him over and get on the news for free 3-4 times over the course of the event (lead-up, day of game, day after, etc). If they sell a few thousand extra tickets on the day and then pick up a few more season ticket sales over the course of the year, they could well pay off their expense.

Pretty much everyone is spending over the salary cap.

If Dusty Rychart retired, but made a cameo appearance for North in a pre-season game one day, and you went along to watch, would you be an idiot?

There are a tonne of people who followed the NBA during its peak in Australia but no longer go to NBL games who would go to this event - I think you'd even get a few people coming in from interstate for it.

One OzHo coaching in Melbourne said he got to training and all his kids were immediately asking if it were true that Rodman was going to play for the Dragons - these are all kids who don't go to NBL games.