Rodman kicks cameraman in groin

After tripping over a cameraman, Dennis Rodman kicks him in the groin.
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During the third quarter of the Chicago Bulls' game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Rodman battled for a rebound with Minnesota's Kevin Garnett when he stumbled out of bounds and fell over a photographer. The television cameraman, sitting nearby, turned his camera on Rodman.

Rodman, still sitting on the floor, kicked out and the bottom of his foot struck the cameraman in the groin. The cameraman, Eugene Amos, was slumped over for about seven minutes and was then carried off on a stretcher.

"It's one thing to be hurt, but don't pretend you're more seriously hurt than you are,'' Rodman said. "I wasn't trying to hurt somebody. I'm not trying to hurt someone.

"He got carried off on a stretcher? It was a little bit dramatic to me. Maybe I'll send him some roses on the floor: Love, Dennis.''

Rodman was among several Bulls who believed Amos was faking his injury, although Wolves physician Sheldon Burns said Amos had been kicked in the groin.

Amos claimed as much when reached at the hospital.

"Yes, I was (kicked in the groin)," Amos told the Associated Press. "I'm on the X-ray table right now and I can't talk right now.''

Scottie Pippen and Bulls coach Phil Jackson were among those who questioned Amos' injury.

"It looked like he kicked him in the knee, and all of a sudden (Amos) came up with that falsetto,'' Jackson said.

Rodman said he anticipated the episode was far from over.

"I think I'll get some lawsuit papers next time I come up to Minnesota,'' Rodman said.