SALT LAKE CITY — The Beehive State is only two wins away from securing its first basketball championship since the Utah Stars won the ABA in 1971 thanks to Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley.
OK, that makes the scenario sound bigger than it actually is.
Conley did win a basketball competition on Sunday evening, but he was just horsing around in a social-distancing-approved, made-for-sports-starved-TV event on ESPN.
In the first live sporting event (to use the term loosely) to be televised in a month since the coronavirus pandemic turned the lights off of arenas and stadiums around the globe, the Jazz point guard beat WNBA legend Tamika Catchings 5-1 — H-O-R-S-E to H- — in the first round of the NBA HORSE Challenge.