Memphis

There are too many NBA games with too many close officiating calls for a player not to occasionally snap at a referee and receive a technical foul. It happens to nearly everyone—except Memphis Grizzlies guard Mike Conley.

Conley has never earned a technical foul in his entire life. Not in the NBA. Not in college. Not in high school, summer tournaments or any other level of organized basketball. The league’s highest-paid player is also its most polite.

It’s almost impossible to be in the league as long as Conley and completely avoid unsportsmanlike conduct. Conley has played about 23,000 minutes over the last decade. That is 43% more than anyone else in the NBA without a tech, according to Stats LLC. No one with as much experience as Conley has anything close to a clean record. The average number of career technical fouls for those players: 39. In fact, according to their rate of techs per minutes played, Conley should have 24 by now.

“Well, I’m way below that,” he said.