Payton Pritchard tried to golf in a flood warning. Mike Conley said no.

Payton Pritchard texted teammate Mike Conley in the middle of a flood warning to propose a round of golf. “Hey, we can still get out there. It’s just sprinkling,” Pritchard wrote, per Conley, who told CelticsBlog about the exchange.

Conley refused. “Bro, it’s not happening today,” he replied.

The setting was Charleston, South Carolina, where the Boston Celtics hold training camp — and where record-breaking rain had triggered the flood warning. The exact date and time of the text exchange are not confirmed.

None of that stopped Pritchard. The Celtics guard was determined to get onto the course despite the historic downpour, a move that reportedly places him at the front of the NBA’s golf-obsessed pack. There are quite a few golf sickos in league circles, according to www.golfdigest.com, which cited the CelticsBlog anecdote — but Pritchard may have just taken the lead.

THE RECORD RAIN IN CHARLESTON

The flood warning was active when Pritchard sent the text, according to Conley’s account of the exchange. Conley told CelticsBlog that Pritchard wrote, “Hey, we can still get out there. It’s just sprinkling.”

The scene was Charleston, South Carolina, where the Celtics hold training camp. Historic rainfall had hit the city, and the warning was in effect — yet Pritchard’s pitch to Conley treated it as a minor inconvenience.

The exact rainfall totals and the duration of the flood warning are not specified in the source. What is clear is that the conditions were severe enough to trigger an official warning, and severe enough that Conley shut the idea down immediately.

Pritchard’s persistence, though, did not end with Conley’s refusal. The guard kept pushing for a round despite the downpour, a detail that underscores just how far his golf obsession runs. The rain was record-breaking by the account in www.golfdigest.com, which relayed the CelticsBlog anecdote — and still, Pritchard wanted to play.

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