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PG Mike Conley (1st Team All BIG, NBA All-Star, Oscar Winner, Minnesota Timberwolves)

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12/16/05

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Almost: Oden-Conley stats would have been a first
Greg Oden and Mike Conley came close to a high school basketball first this week -- perhaps.
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Both Lawrence North High School basketball players nearly had a triple-double in the Wildcats' 81-55 victory over Arlington. Would they have been the first high school teammates to record triple-doubles in the same game?

The Indiana High School Athletic Association said it has no record of that happening. Garry Donna, who has been publishing Hoosier Basketball Magazine for 36 years, said he's never heard of it.

And the National Federation of State High School Associations has no record of it. Even in the NFHS record book, which includes oddity type occurrences in boys basketball, has no mention of it.

Oden had 23 points, 12 rebounds and nine blocks while Conley had 11 points, 10 steals and seven assists.
 
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The Chicago Tribune reported on Sunday that Conley's 8th-grade team coach, Elmer Kurbursky, died Saturday in a car accident. My thoughts are with the Kubursky family in the wake of this tragedy.

From a printed article by Bob Sakamoto of the Chicago Tribune:

"Basically everyone was in shock because it just doesn't seem real," said Conley, who played with several other Lawrence North teammates on the Craig Middle School team. "When we got in the locker room, our coach (Jack Keefer) told us what a great guy [Kubursky] was and that we had to step up and be mentally tougher than the other team."
 
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12/27/05

Mike Conley Jr.

Ohio State
Originally published December 26, 2005

Mike Conley Jr. isn't the best player on his high school team, but Lawrence North in Indianapolis is no ordinary team. Conley is the point guard who gets the ball to Greg Oden, who might have been the top pick in the 2006 draft had the NBA not changed its eligibility standards.

Conley and Oden will stick together next season at Ohio State, where a five-man recruiting class could be the best in the Big Ten Conference since the Fab Five landed at Michigan in 1991.

Conley, 6 feet 1 and 170 pounds, is a left-hander with good shooting range and hops, which he inherited. His father - an Amateur Athletic Union coach on a team that included Oden - is Mike Conley Sr., who won the 1992 Olympic triple jump with a then-world-record 59 feet, 7 1/4 inches.

Oden could have a short stay in Columbus, but Conley figures to be around for the long haul.
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1/19/06

Conley tracks his father on court

By Jeff Rabjohns, Indianapolis Star

When Mike Conley was 8 years old, his Olympic gold-medal winning father decided it was time to share his exploits with his son.

Conley Sr. put in a tape of a 200-meter race in the NCAA Championships when he finished second to some of the country's top sprinters.

"I was real proud and I looked over at him, but when he saw me cross the finish line, he busted out crying," says Conley Sr. "He was like, 'You lost. You lost.' To him, second place was losing."

Mike Conley's attitude hasn't changed, and it serves him well.

Despite growing up in the shadow of a famous father and now playing in the shadow of a more famous teammate, he has become one of the top high school point guards in the nation.

The 6-foot-1 Conley is in his fourth year as a starter for Indianapolis Lawrence North, which plays rival North Central at 7:30 p.m. Thursday on ESPN2.

Conley still trails his teammate, USA TODAY Player of the Year Greg Oden, in headlines, but in basketball circles he is well-known.

"He'll be a great college player," says Bob Gibbons, who has been scouting high school players for more than two decades. "He has developed his game to the point he is no way on the coattails of Greg Oden."
Conley is an exceptional passer and defender, capable of busting zones with three-pointers and quick enough to blow by defenders for baskets and assists.
Conley is scoring 17.6 points per game, shooting 56% from the field, including 42% from three-point range. A left-handed shooter (he's naturally right-handed), Conley averages 5.1 assists, 4 steals and 3.5 rebounds.

Conley and Oden, who have signed with Ohio State, led Lawrence North to the past two state titles. This year's team is 13-0, ranked No. 5 by USA TODAY and No. 1 in Indiana.

Conley Sr. won an Illinois high school basketball state title with Luther South in Chicago, but made his mark in track at the University of Arkansas and in the Olympics. He won the triple jump silver medal in 1984 and the gold in 1992 before finishing fourth in 1996. He was ranked in the top five in the world 14 years in a row in the triple jump and the top 10 for 10 years in a row in the long jump.

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"I knew he ran track, but I never really paid attention to it until we moved and people in Indiana were talking about him," says Conley, who was 11 when the family moved from Arkansas to Indianapolis.

Conley made his national reputation in the summer. At the invitation-only ABCD Camp in New Jersey, Conley went head-to-head with Cincinnati's O.J. Mayo, the top-ranked player in the 2007 class. Conley scored a game-high 15 points on 5-for-9 shooting while holding Mayo to nine points on 3-for-13 shooting.

During the same event, Conley held Oklahoma recruit Scottie Reynolds to one point and shut down two other top point guards in Memphis recruit Willie Kemp (two points) and Edwin Rios (scoreless).

In summer team competition, Conley was coached by his father on the Spiece Indy Heat, which over the past two years included the likes of Oden and Josh McRoberts, now starting for top-ranked Duke as a freshman.

"Conley's game stands on its own two feet," said rivals.com's Jerry Meyer, who saw most of Spiece's games over the summer. "What he does with that Spiece team, with it being so talented, it's like being on a top-level college team.

"He has a great feel for the game, picking points to be aggressive and attack the basket and when to distribute the ball to other players. He might be the best pure point guard in his class because of those things."
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2/1/06

Kind of a humorous piece about where some of the best basketball recruits would end up if they played football. They project Conley as either a QB or DB, based on his athletic IQ.
 
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2/12/06

Wrap-up of Lawrence North's impressive win over 79-61 win over Glenbrook North (Ill). Conley had 24 points and 4 assists.

"Oden, obviously, his size is a factor, but Conley is the best player we've seen," Glenbrook North coach David Weber said after the marquee game in the McDonald's City-Suburban Showdown. "We had no answer for him. It was a show. We'd play off him, and he'd hit the 3. We'd go out, he'd penetrate.
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2/14/06



Let the games heat up: Best play better vs. greats

Great individual performances, in some cases against elite competition, highlighted games involving USA TODAY's Super 25 boys basketball teams last weekend.

In Evanston, Ill., center Greg Oden (31 points, 11 rebounds) and point guard Mike Conley Jr. (24 points, four assists) led No. 5 Lawrence North (Indianapolis) to a 79-61 victory against then-No. 16 Glenbrook North (Northbrook, Ill.) in a game pitting defending state champions.


The game drew a standing-room crowd of 8,494 to Northwestern University's Welsh-Ryan Arena. A third Preseason Super 25 player, guard Jon Scheyer of Glenbrook North, scored a game-high 33 points, including 11 of his team's first 15, but Lawrence North led 41-27 by halftime.


Oden, USA TODAY's reigning player of the year, and Conley have signed with Ohio State, and Scheyer is headed to Duke. Oden had a season-high 38 points last week against Ben Davis (Indianapolis).
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