SALT LAKE CITY — The Utah Jazz knew that starting point guard Mike Conley would be leaving the NBA’s bubble in Orlando at some point to be with his wife, Mary, for the birth of their third child, a son, in Columbus, Ohio.
Mary Conley’s due date was Aug. 27, but the Jazz announced that Conley left the bubble Sunday morning to go to Ohio, just more than 24 hours before Game 1 of the team’s first-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets.
Mary posted on Instagram a video of herself and newborn son on Monday afternoon and said that she was very surprised to go into labor early, that Conley didn’t make it to Ohio in time for the birth, but that he was with her now and they were enjoying their time together before he would have to leave.