In the locker room, after the Bucks dropped a cool 125 on the Pacers, Rashad Vaughn looked up at the television and saw the Thunder/Warriors game on. Russ and company led 16-7.
Five nights earlier in that same locker room, after doubling his career high with six 3-pointers in the win over the Nets, he had gotten dressed and slipped behind the swarm of reporters into the hallway. A couple minutes later, he returned – perhaps at the behest of the PR team – and answered questions from eight or nine reporters (who had to push their recorders up close to his lips to catch the audio) about his starring role.