I felt rather clever.
A few weeks ago, it was early in a phone conversation with Detroit Pistons creative director Jason George, who was explaining the difficulty of choosing a team name before the pending announcement that owner Tom Gores had signed off on bringing an NBA G League franchise to Detroit.
I blurted out: “Why not just call it the Motor City Pistons and call it day?”
To George’s credit, he didn’t respond: “Wow, we never thought of that.”
Instead, he explained how such a move would have had major implications with the organization’s current e-mail addresses (@pistons.