On Saturday, July 13, 2013 8:00:25 PM UTC-4, Joe Hass wrote:

> Twenty years ago when I worked as a PR intern at the NBA, one of the first 
> things they told us was to never answer a call from a reporter and always 
> forward it to a staff member, regardless of the topic. The one time I 
> screwed up (over something relatively innocuous like a statistical 
> request), I was raked over the coals to the point where *I thought I was 
> going to be fired and sent back to Detroit*. A couple hours later, I was 
> called into Brian McIntyre's office (the head of PR) for what I assumed 
> would be my axing. Fortunately, he basically explained the policy and why 
> they come down so hard.
>


Bolding mine - I saw this and all I could think of was Kentucky Fried Movie.

<http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MufcSdWehaA/ThfJ5iNr5YI/AAAAAAAAAZM/DItYPSgfb-c/s1600/Kentucky5.jpg>

*"Take him to DETROIT."*

M-D
A SAMUEL L. BRONKOWITZ PRODUCTION

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