SALT LAKE CITY — On Wednesday afternoon, Mike Conley watched the Utah Jazz play Game 2 of their first-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets while quarantined in a hotel room just 3 miles from the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex where the game took place.
“I’m not a guy that gets nervous during games, but I was about as nervous as you can get,” he said Friday of watching the game on TV. “I’m like a super fan and I get anxious and I start to sweat. I’m sitting there and yelling at the guys on the screen and texting the guys during the game even though I know they’re not going to respond.