NBA Accidentally
Drafts Grammy Winning Saxophonist Boney James
by Maury Levine
In what the
league is calling "an unfortunate and
unlikely confluence of errors," the NBA
accidentally drafted Grammy winning saxophonist
Boney James.
NBA Director of Draft Processing Brian Stephens
explained, "As this year's draft was
beginning, we also welcomed thirty new summer
interns into our office. Due to the unusually
high number of interns, some were placed at desks
that were not originally designated for intern
use. It appears that one intern, Joseph Stokes,
was placed at a desk where the computer access
was several levels higher than what would
normally be allowed for interns."
NBA Director of Information Systems Cameron
Lawson continued, "The workstation computer
in question did not have it's access downgraded
after the departure of it's previous user, a
draft analyst. Stephens had not yet been through
our computer systems training when the breach
occurred. Although no personal, private, or
corporate NBA information was compromised in the
breach, the user had access to systems he was
unfamiliar with. In a technical sense, he was
doing the wrong thing in the wrong place at the
wrong time."
Intern Joseph Stokes apologized for his actions
and said he was simply trying to do an internet
search for concert tickets when the error
occurred. "I was searching for tickets for
my favorite artist, Boney James, and I got turned
around. When Ticketmaster said that no tickets
were available, I thought I was going to a
secondary ticket market website. Somehow I got
into the NBA's draft system and I entered Boney
James into the draft. I can't believe I did that!"
When explained that Boney James is a similar name
to Bronny James, LaBron's son and this year's 55th
overall draft pick, Stokes said, "I haven't
heard of Bronny James until now."
Saxophonist Boney James took the error in stride.
"When I got the draft notice, I thought this
was some kind of crazy joke that my agent was
playing on me," he laughed. "I called
him up and he swore that he wasn't pranking me
this time. So I called the NBA office to find out
what happened, and they explained the mistake to
me. I thought they were sending me out to play
for the Utah Jazz, you know? Crazy stuff, man,
because I haven't heard of Bronny James until now."
This was the NBA's first error of this kind since
actor Michael B Jordan was accidentally selected
in the 2010 draft.
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