Time waits for no man, and Dennis Rodman is no exception.

Once always the center of attention wherever he went, The Worm, now 49 years old, took a back seat — on the court at least — to a cast of characters such as the aptly nicknamed The Air up There (Taurian Fontenette), Mr. Africa (Anthony Pimble) and Escalade (Troy Jackson) for two nights last week in Osaka and Tokyo while promoting streetball with the Ballup team at the And1 Street2Elite events.

"These guys, And1, they've done such a great job of developing this type of basketball," Rodman said at the end of the tour on Thursday at Ariake Colosseum. "It's not like the Harlem Globetrotters, that's way different.