Standing alongside the baseline of Kaiser Permanente Arena, Santa Cruz Warriors guard Quinn Cook has just finished a brief shootaround in anticipation of the night’s game against the Rio Grande Vipers. As he catches up with Vipers guard Tony Wroten, his phone rings.
“You’ve got an hour to get your stuff,” says the voice on the other end of the line.
Cook obliges, quickly traveling to his beachfront hotel to retrieve his bag, before making the trek over Highway 17 and up to Oakland for the Golden State Warriors contest against the Chicago Bulls.
Over the last year and a half, in multiple different locations around the map, the sequence has been a common occurrence for Cook.