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Marc D'Amico: Mike Conley Jr. declares, "I still got a lot left."
Daniel Donabedian: I asked Brad Stevens how he weighed putting the Celtics’ interests first (by trading Jaylen Brown) against potentially making a rival better following the LeBron James signing: “Yeah, our focus is on us…And obviously, you know we will look forward to any challenges. And obviously there's a lot of good teams all around the league, but we have to do what's best, what we think is in the best interest of us, both in the short and long term. And so that was the decision, and we went through that in July. And today is about Mike, Paul, and Mitch, who's not here, and making sure that we are ready to put our best foot forward.”
Oh No He Didn't: Mike Conley on playing for Joe Mazzulla: "I get here, I feel like I don't know what I'm doing" Joe: "That's a great compliment" 😂
Oh No He Didn't: Mike Conley: "Whenever I think of Boston, I think of a winner, a winning culture. Since I was a kid, it's been that way. Since I was in the league, I was a part of the league when KG and them guys won, and Rondo and them, and obviously their last one they won a few years ago. You just think of that immediately. Like PG said, when you walk into the building, there's a sense, there's an atmosphere, there's something that's just a little bit different. You find yourself in there two, three hours, not realizing you've been in there working that much, and just a part of the culture. I think that's initially what I think when I see the Celtics"
Celtics on CLNS: Mike Conley on why he choose to sign with the Boston Celtics: “It was fairly quick honestly but you know the main reason you know, you look around the league there's very few organizations and teams that yu look at that honestly are trying to win every year…Have an opportunity to play for such a storied you know franchise Joe and you know Brad and all the team.”
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Bobby Krivitsky: Paul George on joining the Celtics and what he wants to prove here: "When you think of Boston, it's winning." Mike Conley expressed the same view, noting this franchise has been a winner since he was a kid and throughout his time in the league.
Noa Dalzell: The Celtics will introduce Paul George, Mitchell Robinson, and Mike Conley on Tuesday afternoon at the Auerbach Center, per team. Brad Stevens and Joe Mazzulla will both be in attendance.
Jon Krawczynski: "I was told Mike really wanted to at least spend one year playing for a flagship franchise. This is nothing against the Grizzlies or the Jazz or the Timberwolves, but none of those teams are in royalty with the NBA. The Boston Celtics are historic. They have a history and a gravitas about them that Conley wanted to experience what it was like playing for that kind of a franchise with that kind of a fan base with that kind of a lore about them."
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Jon Krawczynski: "He ingratiates so much faith and trust from his teammates because of the way he goes about it and because of all that he's seen in this league. Anthony Edwards, I swear every game you would walk into the Timberwolves locker room after the game, Ant is sitting right next to Mike Conley and they're going over everything that happened and what Mike saw that Ant could have done better or what he liked. He is a guy who just really has a perfect way of delivering messages that help raise a player's performance, whether Mike is on the floor helping him do that or just on the bench or in the locker room steering him in the right direction as well."
Jon Krawczynski: "I've covered this league for almost 25 years now, and I mean, just one of my absolute favorite people to have in a locker room because he is the most available high-profile player I've ever been around. Every single time you need something, whether it's in good times or bad, Mike Conley is there to answer the questions, to explain to you what's going right or wrong. And then, on top of like all of his very high skill level in terms of communicating those types of things and talking about the basketball of it, he's just a great dude in the locker room. He'll talk to you for 20 minutes about fantasy football. He's a huge fantasy football guy. He asks about, you know, your family. He's just a human being."
Jon Krawczynski on Kevin Love: If you do look at one thing the Wolves could use, it is another veteran presence who can play some, which Kevin Love can do. But also (someone) who is that guy in the locker room who knows how to communicate with the coaches, who knows how to communicate with the players, who just be a real help in that end of things in a long season, kind of getting everyone through. When you lose Mike Conley, Kyle Anderson, and Joe Ingles, all of whom played big, important parts in that aspect of team building, I still think they could use another voice, another vet guy.
