From my point of view, I was calling it as I saw it. There was NO WAY in my mind that the kid in that picture was Mike Conley’s. And it just so happens that the majority of twitter agreed and we went VIRAL, getting over 1500 retweets in two days.

So this morning, we get a DM request and it’s from Conley’s PR agent, who would like to speak with us.

Turns out Mike saw the tweet himself and contacted the agency right away (we can’t imagine that he was too happy).

She explains that he’s a family man and he was catching a lot of heat on social media. We get that. We all actually are big fans of Mike Conley here at Turf Talk.

But to be fair, no one is safe and I just wanted to get some laughs. Unfortunately for Mike, it got wayyyy more than expected.