Detroit Spirits
August 5, 2013
The Detroit Spirits were a minor league basketball franchise that toiled in the shadow of the NBA’s Detroit Pistons for five seasons during the mid-1980’s. The Spirits served up a chaotic blend of triumph, tribulation and low comedy that could have launched a thousand Hollywood screenplays. The team won a league championship, signed notorious NBA burnout Marvin “Bad News Barnes”, and fell victim to a bizarre scheme that saw enterprising state prison inmates bill $19,000 in long distance phone calls to the team’s account. And that was just the Spirits’ first season…