It's 6:45 and per his usual routine, Mike Scott has made an alcove where there isn't one.
An hour and 15 minutes before each NBA game starts, teams open up their locker rooms to the media. It is not, if you were expecting such a thing, 15 players lined up one per locker.
Instead, players dart in and out of the room, dropping off pieces of equipment or grabbing what is left of a nutritional shake that they started drinking earlier. They leave headed for any number of destinations: the players' lounge, the training room, a pre-game chapel service, and, of course, the court itself.