The Minnesota Timberwolves have signed guard Mike Conley to a contract extension.
Per the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the deal is “a two-year contract extension price $20.75 million general.”
Conley, 36, is within the midst of his seventeenth season within the NBA, second with the Timberwolves, seeing motion in 50 video games (all begins), averaging 10.6 factors on 44.4% taking pictures, together with a career-best 44.2% from deep, 2.9 rebounds and 6.4 assists in 28.9 minutes per recreation. Conley has a career-high 6.08 assist-to-turnover ratio, rating second within the NBA. Since 1977-78 (min. 50 video games performed), no participant 36 years of age or older has had an assist-to-turnover increased than Conley this season.
Per the St., Paul Pioneer Press, “Conley has been a lynchpin for Minnesota’s large success. The purpose guard — along with his ball motion technology, deadly outdoors taking pictures and succesful defending — has confirmed to be the lacking piece that tied the Timberwolves’ two-big experiment collectively and turned Minnesota from a laughingstock right into a title contender.”
The Ohio State College product has tallied 4 level/help double-doubles this season and has dished out 10+ assists on 5 events. Within the 118-103 Jan. 18 victory vs. Memphis, Conley added 17 factors on 7-of-11 taking pictures, together with 3-of-6 from deep and a season-high-tying 10 assists. His efficiency marked his second 15+ level/10+ help recreation this season (52nd profession), each coming towards the Grizzlies, and his first such recreation doing so whereas taking pictures 63.0%+ from the sector (fifth profession). Whereas allotting 10 assists towards Memphis, he didn’t commit a single turnover, the second time this season with 10 assists and nil turnovers (Jan. 12 vs. Portland) and the sixteenth in his profession. Within the Timberwolves 128-91 win at Portland on Feb. 15, Conley ended the sport with seven factors, 4 rebounds, six assists, two steals and a career-high-tying three blocks. It marked the second time during the last 5 seasons the place Conley has had a number of blocks and a number of steals in the identical recreation (additionally Oct. 24, 2022, Utah at Houston). At 36y-125d years previous, he grew to become the second-oldest participant in Timberwolves historical past with 3+ blocks in a recreation.
For his profession, the 6-1 guard has appeared in 1,075 profession common season video games (1,038 begins) with the Grizzlies, Utah Jazz and Timberwolves, averaging 14.5 factors on 43.9% taking pictures, 3.0 rebounds and 5.7 assists per recreation. Conley has seen motion in 78 profession playoff video games (all begins) and has averaged 15.8 factors, 3.5 rebounds and 6.5 assists per recreation.
Conley is considered one of solely seven energetic gamers and 19 in NBA historical past to complete greater than 15,000 factors, 6,000 assists, 3,000 rebounds and 1,000 steals (James Harden, Jrue Vacation, LeBron James, Kyle Lowry, Chris Paul and Russell Westbrook).
