Dennis Rodman's game face is bizarre — even for him (VIDEO)

Dennis Rodman is back and more fabulous than ever.

The NBA Hall of Famer and unofficial U.S. diplomat played in a Legends of Basketball Tour game in Argentina this weekend wearing a blonde Mohawk, purple lipstick and a face full of makeup.

Eccentric, even for Rodman's tastes.

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As Rodman was introduced, the fans cheered while he high-fived his teammates and even got a hug from a mascot on a tiny motorbike.

The Worm dressed a little different than how he's remembered back in his NBA playing days but it was good to see him hitting the court in his own inimitable style.

Gary Payton, Latrell Sprewell, Vin Baker, and other former NBA players joined Rodman for the game.

Dennis Rodman checks into rehab center for alcoholism treatment: Report

The twisted road of Dennis Rodman has reportedly taken another turn and hopefully this is in the right direction.

The former NBA star and unofficial U.S. ambassador has checked into a New Jersey alcohol rehabilitation center to treat his long-time struggle with alcoholism, reports TMZ.

The 52-year-old Rodman recently returned to the United States from his latest trip to North Korea. Rodman is "beyond exhausted and overwhelmed" and will be in treatment for 30 days, said the gossip site.

The Hall of Famer also apologized for comments he made in North Korea about a detained American missionary during a CNN interview rant (below), saying he had been drinking and was under pressure as he organized an exhibition game there. He also sang a slurred rendition of "Happy Birthday" to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the start of the friendly game.

"What was potentially a historic and monumental event turned into a nightmare for everyone concerned," Rodman's agent Darren Prince said about the disastrous trip. "Dennis Rodman came back from North Korea in pretty rough shape emotionally. The pressure that was put on him to be a combination 'super human' political figure and 'fixer' got the better of him.

"He is embarrassed, saddened and remorseful for the anger and hurt his words have caused."

Kenny Anderson apologizes for North Korea trip with Rodman

Just days back from joining Dennis Rodman on his controversial visit to North Korea, and birthday celebration of Kim Jong-un, retired basketball NBA star Kenny Anderson spoke about the trip during a live interview with Piers Morgan on Monday.

The former All-American at Georgia Tech, and a man who scored more than 10,000 points during a 15 year NBA career, was among the group of athletes that chose to join Rodman on his trip to the isolated nation ruled by its basketball-crazed tyrant.

Revealing that he hadn't done his due diligence prior to arriving on site, according to CNN, Anderson admitted to feeling compelled to go through with the charity game played in honor of the nation's supreme leader:

"I feared - you know, you fear what you don't know ... Like I said, I got the phone call, a few hours before the game. My wife was crying. She was like, 'don't play.' She was scared of my safety. So I had no choice. You know, when we got there, they took - you know, they take our passports away, you know? And I just - I had to finish what I got into," said Anderson. "I felt bad. I felt bad. I felt very bad that, you know, for my family, you know, for my close friends and Americans and people that [sic] looked up to Kenny Anderson."

Organized by Rodman, last week's expedition gained increased exposure following his outburst at the start of the trip. Anderson was just one of the former NBA stars who sat stone-faced behind Rodman while he went on his drunken rant supporting the brutal regime.

On Monday, seated across from Morgan, Anderson agreed that in hindsight he and his teammates were being made to appear as puppets. But while he regrets the experience, he candidly accepts his share of the blame:

"First of all, I'm 43 years old. I make my own decisions. And like I said, I keep going back to it — I was upset with myself," he told Piers Morgan. "I didn't think it was going to give me so much backlash."

During the broadcast, Anderson apologized for participating in the basketball game but refused to agree to give the money he was paid to charity.

Dennis Rodman's apologizes for North Korea outburst: 'I had been drinking'

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman apologized Thursday for his much-criticized outburst about an American citizen imprisoned in North Korea, saying he "had been drinking" when he made the remarks on CNN.

The eccentric Hall of Famer is in Pyongyang for a controversial NBA veterans exhibition basketball game against a North Korean team — a trip which has been filled with surreal moments, including Rodman's rendition of "Happy Birthday" to the country's leader Kim Jong Un at a packed sports stadium on Wednesday.

In an exclusive interview Tuesday with Chris Cuomo of CNN's "New Day," Rodman provoked outrage by appearing to suggest that Kenneth Bae, who has been held in North Korea since 2012, may have done something to deserve his sentence of 15 years of hard labor.

Rodman attributed his bizarre rant to stress and liquid courage.

"I had been drinking," he said in a statement released by his publicist Jules Feiler Thursday. "It's not an excuse but by the time the interview happened I was upset. I was overwhelmed.

"I embarrassed a lot of people," he added. "I'm very sorry. At this point I should know better than to make political statements. I'm truly sorry."

He said the day leading up to the interview had been "very stressful."

"Some of my teammates were leaving because of pressure from their families and business associates," adding that his dream of "basketball diplomacy was quickly falling apart."

"I want to first apologize to Kenneth Bae's family," Rodman said. "I want to apologize to my teammates and my management team. I also want to apologize to Chris Cuomo."

Bae's sister, Terri Chung, said her family was shocked by Rodman's comments about her captive brother.

"He was in a position to do some good and to help advocate for Kenneth," she said Tuesday. 

"He refused to do so. But then instead he has chosen to hurl these outrageous accusations against Kenneth. He clearly doesn't know anything about Kenneth, about his case. And so we were appalled by that."

She had no immediate comment Wednesday night after Rodman's apology was announced.

Smart enough not to take the shine off the dictator's birthday gift, Rodman's squad of former NBA players lost 47-39 to their North Korean hosts.

Dennis Rodman sings 'Happy Birthday' to North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un (VIDEO)

Dennis Rodman crooned a terrible version of "Happy Birthday" for Kim Jong Un on Wednesday prior to a controversial exhibition basketball game between former NBA stars and a group of North Korean players — even as the NBA Hall of Famer's critics continued to slam him for not lobbying the North Korean dictator to release an American held there for vague crimes against the state. 

The 52-year-old Rodman opened the exhibition game pitting former NBA players against a North Korean squad with a dedication to his “best friend” Kim, who watched with his wife and other senior officials and their wives from a special seating area in the surreal setting.

The capacity crowd of 14,000 at Pyongyang Indoor Stadium exploded in applause when Rodman concluded. The North Korean despot is believed to be in his early 30s.

Along with Rodman, the former NBA players included ex-All Stars Kenny Anderson, Cliff Robinson and Vin Baker. Also on the roster were Craig Hodges, Doug Christie, former New York Knick Charles D. Smith and four streetballers.

Rodman said he was honored to be able to play the game in the North Korean capital, and called the event “historic.”

To keep it friendly, the Americans played against the North Koreans in the first half, but split up and merged teams for the second half.

Dennis Rodman being trailed for Sports Illustrated cover

Dennis Rodman is being shadowed for a potential Sports Illustrated cover story after his well publicized trip to North Korea put America's most colorful, self-named ambassador back in the public eye, reports The New York Post.

Rodman will pose for an SI shoot that will be a riff on his infamous May 1995 cover in black hot pants, a bustier and a dog collar and holding an exotic parrot, according to Page Six. 

"The piece will be about how he’s still relevant and an original," a sports spy told the gossip site.

Coincidentally, the SI crew will be shadowing the former NBA star the night Rodman celebrates his 52nd birthday at his favorite Manhattan strip club Cheetahs on Monday.

The "no holds barred" Cheetahs party is expected to involve topless dancers, sushi served on naked bodies and giveaway thongs that read: "Make Love Not War."

Not a bad night's work following The Worm. It sounds pretty diplomatic to me.

Rodman gets diplomatic at a Miami strip club

Dennis Rodman didn't take long to unwind after his two-day visit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un last week.

The tattooed and pierced quasi-diplomat was spotted at Manhattan's Sapphire Gentleman's Club on Sunday night — although his reps denied it to The New York Post.  But leave it to TMZ to provide picture proof that The Worm has dumped the DPRK manifesto for a manly-fist-full-of-ones.

These photos of Rodman were snapped Tuesday night inside the North Miami strip club Dean's Gold — where he is known as a regular.

Think any discussions of missile testing came up?

Sources said the former NBA star came in at 8:30 and watched some sports with a couple of friends for about three hours.

Dennis Rodman — the man who put the ass back in ambassador.

Rodman booted from hotel for ranting about how great Kim Jong Un is

Dennis Rodman, just back from his bizarre trip visiting Kim Jong Un, was escorted out of the Time Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on Sunday after spending hours at the restaurant bar loudly telling anyone who would listen what a great guy the North Korean dictator is, reports The New York Post.

"He was at the bar at Serafina for three hours," a spy told The Post.  "He kept saying what a nice guy Kim is, and how Kim just wants to talk to President Obama about basketball.  He was waving around a signed copy of the dictator's huge manifesto, telling everyone they should read it."

"Dennis was making a total jerk of himself. He wouldn’t leave, and he wouldn’t let anyone talk to him about shutting up, or what an oppressive country North Korea is," claims the source. "Eventually he had to leave the bar because the bartender was starting to get [bleep]ed-off."

That kind of behavior in his new buddy's People's Republic would have the former-NBA star shooting hoops in the Bukchang internment camp — but here it amounts to only being eighty-sixed.

Rodman— who is a regular at the hotel — finally left the hotel but staffers say he is a nuisance and are fed up.

"He’s always a problem," said one source. "He is loud and does weird stuff. Like, he’ll come down to the front desk in his bathrobe in the middle of the night and make demands that people have to run to the store for him. He’s belligerent about it. I thought he was just on TV getting sober?"

Rodman: 'My friend' Kim Jong Un just wants Obama to 'call him'

Former NBA star Dennis Rodman just returned from playing basketball diplomat to North Korea and said the isolated country's leader Kim Jong Un doesn't want war with the United States.  The tattooed and pierced quasi-ambassador said Kim just wants President Barack Obama to give him a call.

Obama and Kim share a love of basketball.  "So let's start there," said Rodman.

Rodman sat down with George Stephanopoulos in the "This Week" studio in New York Sunday morning and relayed the message after spending two days with Kim and the Harlem Globetrotters.

Kim, who has strained ties between the two countries with recent underground nuclear tests, " don't want war — that's one thing he don't want," said Rodman.

Pressed by Stephanopoulos about Kim’s threats to the destroy the United States, and his family’s horrendous record on human rights, Rodman said: “I don’t condone that. I hate the fact that he’s doing that. … I didn’t talk about that. …I saw people respected him, his family. … “[He’s] only 28 — 28. He’s not his dad. He’s not his grandpa. He is 28 years old. … He’s very humble. He’s a very humble man. … He don’t want war – that’s one thing he don’t want. … He loves power. He loves control, because of his father, you know – stuff like that. But he’s just — he’s a great guy. He’s just a great guy. You sit down and talk to him.”

The State Department has distanced itself from Rodman's visit — although the troubled ex-NBA player  —aka "The Worm" — is the highest-profile American to meet with the dictator since he took power after his father's death in December 2011.

Stephanopoulos questioned Rodman on North Korea's political prison camps, to which Rodman replied, "We do the same things here."

"It sounds like you're apologizing for him," said Stephanopoulos.  

"No, I’m not apologizing for him," countered Rodman. "He was a great guy to me. He was my friend. I don’t condone what he does. But as a person to person, he’s my friend. … What I did was history. … He’s a friend to me. That’s about it."

Rodman said he would be returning to Pyongyang to "find out more what's really going on."

"OK, next time you go back, you should bring this report from the Human Rights Watch ... maybe you could ask some questions about that," a stern Stephanopoulos told his guest. "You might learn a lot more and it might press him. But thank you for coming on this morning and sharing your impressions."

"Don't hate me," said Rodman, before slipping out of the ABC studio and skipping his scheduled interview with ESPN.