Mike Conley was picked No. 4 in the 2007 NBA Draft. This year he earned the Joe Dumars Sportsmanship Trophy and landed the most lucrative NBA contract in history. The former Ohio State Buckeye, is now 28 years old and has played in the NBA for nine years.
During the recent NBA Playoffs, he fractured numerous bones near his eye, following an errant elbow in Game 3 of the first round, and barely remembers the play. “I was driving to the basket on CJ McCollum,” he wrote in The Players Tribune article, “And the next thing I knew, I was grabbing my face — It was the lowest point in my basketball career.