SALT LAKE CITY — When Mike Conley’s last-second 3-point try rattled out of the basket on Sept. 1, it was the first time in his career that a playoff elimination game came down to the final shot.
It was the fourth time in the veteran’s career that he had played in a Game 7, and by the time the final buzzer sounded, it would mark the fourth time in his career that he’d lost in said games.
Had Conley’s shot landed just a smidge differently, the narrative would be about his clutch heroics and how he pushed the Utah Jazz into the Western Conference semifinals.