Mike Conley

Like injure, break a finger or,

like a wrist or something like that so you're unable to use one side and so you still try to do handshakes and it's like you know people will still go grab your hand real hard and it's like bro my finger's broken or whatever you know just kind of like a lot of stuff like that can occur and most times when like we're in that situation like we do try to go like lead the dance with that other hand whatever hand that's not injured or whatever or not having an issue like we'll like if you're

meeting somebody, you immediately jump out of it and be like, what's up, bro?

And bring that hand out immediately to where they have no choice but to bring their left hand out.

Depending on how close you are with them or if it's closer people doing stuff with chest bumps and elbows and all kinds of stuff.

We got some guys who get sick a lot on our team, too, so we'll bypass the hands and go straight to elbows, like taps and stuff like that that'll make it really easy to

bypass having to shake hands, but it's still like greeting each other.

Um, so yeah, you know, I probably look into something like that if, you know, yeah, I think that's right.

Wow.

I mean, literally, like, you know, it's the fist pump with the elbow, you know, because I meet people a lot in different settings, and sometimes you're meeting so many people, and you might be in a situation like, you know, my hands are sweaty, I just got in, you know, from doing this, I just want to, you know, you throw out the fist pump really quick, it's very nice to meet you, you know, make an eye contact and all that stuff, and

It could be very similar to that with an elbow.

And like I think Isaac said, trying to announce whatever that is at the start of your conversation is always, I think, a good idea.

you have success or not.

So I think it's probably the right route.

No, but the, the one person who can kind of, you know, hit a knuckle the wrong way is Rudy, Rudy Gobert has, he wears, like if he's not playing in the game, he'll wear like these, these big old like rings that have like, you know, his hands are big anyway, but like,

these huge rings with, like, jewels and stuff on them.

I don't know what they are, like rocks or something.

And when he hits, like, the back of my hand sometimes, like, I'll catch a ring on my, like, knuckle, and I'll be like, oh, my God, I can't play.

You know, it's, like, that painful.

But other than that, everybody else's handshakes are pretty nonviolent.