Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley (Jeffrey Swinger-USA TODAY Sports)
The Utah Jazz could use one more All-Star against the Los Angeles Clippers.
To this Utah Jazz writer’s delight, I was dead wrong in my pessimistic prediction leading up to the Western Conference Semifinals matchup between the No. 1 seed Jazzmen and the No. 4 seed Los Angeles Clippers.
See, before Utah’s 112-109 Game 1 home win on Tuesday night, I had forecasted there to be zero Jazz victories in this series for as long as first-time All-Star Mike Conley was to remain out of commission from his mild right hamstring strain during a Game 5 series-clinching W on June 2 against the Memphis Grizzlies.