MINNEAPOLIS — It was the moment Mike Conley had been waiting for, to assert himself with his Minnesota Timberwolves teammates, to let them know small goals shouldn’t be the ceiling, to dream bigger.
To let them know urgency should be the theme.
A training camp dinner was the opportunity. The franchise that had only been out of the first round once in its three-decade existence was going to be challenged by its most experienced player, the point guard who’d gone to the conference finals once in 11 playoff runs.
“I was like, ‘Man, we have to change our mindset,’” Conley recalled to Yahoo Sports earlier this week in Minnesota.