It is a ligament injury, what Mike Conley called an old tear from years ago that’s misplaced and complicated enough he said he wishes the issue, at age 37, were as simple as an old man’s arthritis. “If I want to fix it, I’ll have to get surgery,” Conley said. But later. “When I’m 50, I’ll get surgery, not right now,” he said. “The surgery is a little bit complex and I’ve been playing with it for years, so I feel like I’ll just finish it.”