While many of the NBA's elder statesmen are watching the playoffs, the 36-year-old Conley is thriving alongside a rising superstar.
DENVER — doesn’t look old. As the point guard sits down at Ball Arena, where his seized control of the Western Conference semifinals against the in the first two games that followed, there are no visible signs of the aging process making his job much harder these days.
There were days when I had to go score 21 a night and go be that guy who has to shoot all the balls and shoot 20 times. But innately, that’s not my mindset. I could go my whole career and I can play forever and average 12, 14, 15 or whatever it is, just dump assists off, play defense, knock down shots. And because that’s been my game my whole entire life, I’m really, really good at it at this stage in my career. So I don’t have to change anything.
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