DETROIT (AP) -Government records show the FBI investigated threatening letters sent to Detroit Pistons coach Chuck Daly at the height of his team’s success during the 1989-90 “Bad Boys” championship era.
The 67 pages were recently obtained by The Associated Press as part of a Freedom of Information Act request. Daly died in May at age 78.
His teams played a punishing, in-your-face brand of defense that angered opposing players and coaches, and – based on the letters examined by the FBI – fans, too.
The records detail how federal agents in Detroit ordered various lab tests to determine who sent the letters. But no suspects ever were identified.
One letter was mailed from Cleveland and postmarked April 24, 1989. In it, the author writes to Daly that he “will be very sorry.”
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