“Now, what I said to Dennis – not to Karl – was, ‘Hey Dennis, if anything were to happen off court while there’s a timeout, while there’s no gameplay. If you guys happen to rough it up a little bit at the sidelines, or look like you’re going to and establish that intent, so that the feud, if you will, between Karl Malone and Dennis Rodman is real, on a kind of a 360-degree basis, not just what happens on our television show, that wouldn’t piss me off at all.’
“It was kind of subtle, but clear, I guess … and I made sure with respect to my boss, Harvey Schiller at Turner Sports, and the NBA, I did it in a way to be a little bit hands-off and make sure it didn’t interrupt the gameplay.”
“As a wrestling producer, to be able to create a moment – however subtly I did that and communicated it – to be able to create a moment that played out on a platform so huge as the NBA playoffs was really satisfying,” Bischoff said.
You never know what Dennis is up to when he’s pulling off all his shenanigans.
Looking back at that game, it totally makes sense now.
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