A few drunk friends and I were riding an elevator in a downtown Chicago hotel (we were there for a wedding reception). The door opens, and in walks Isiah Thomas (the Pistons were in town). One of my friends, after staring at him for a while . . . "Say, did you go to Wayne State?" The rest of us proceeded to do our best not to crack up. Isiah looks at him, then at us (realizing), and without skipping a beat replies, "No, but I spend a lot of time in Detroit." We teased my friend about it for years.
My late father-in-law worked for Detroit Edison for 40+ years. When Isiah was recruited to do commercials for Edison, he and his mother were sent to speech therapy school to learn how to speak correctly.
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