SALT LAKE CITY-Wednesday, per an ESPN report, Utah Jazz guard Mike Conley is donating $200,000 to assist communities negatively impacted by COVID-19.
Mike Conley wants to "be on the forefront of helping change things" by making a $200,000 donation to help those affected by the coronavirus.
“We're looked at as the guys who started this whole thing and whatever… Now it's an opportunity for us.”https://t.co/LPGmAgV1HI
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Conley has confirmed a portion of his donations will go to the Utah Food Bank.
Conley said he will also share these donations with CodeCrew of Memphis, Tenn., the Community Shelter Board and Columbus Urban League of Columbus, Ohio, the Indianapolis Public Schools Foundation of Indianapolis and the New Haven Missionary Baptist Church of Arkansas.
This Baptist church has locations in Arkansas at West Helena, Ark., Little Rock, Ark. and Camden, Ark.
These are all special places to Conley as he played with the Memphis Grizzlies prior to coming to the Jazz, starred as a guard at Ohio State University and his father, Mike Conley Sr., an Olympic long and triple jumper, competed as a collegian at Arkansas. Furthermore, he is a graduate of Lawrence North High School of Indianapolis, where he caught the eye of the Buckeyes.
Conley is presently in his 14th season in the NBA and his first with the Jazz.
During his time with the Grizzlies and Jazz, Conley has averaged 14.8 points, 5.7 assists and 3 rebounds per game and is beloved by legions of fans in both Memphis and Utah for his heroics on and off the court.
