SPRINTING BACK AND forth between the court, weight room and visitors locker room at Staples Center on a mid-November evening, Todd Forcier keeps time.
The Portland Trail Blazers' sports performance specialist is running players through warm-ups an hour before they face the Lakers, but his eyes are also trained on the red digits blinking down from an overhead scoreboard. When those digits reach 45:00, Forcier bolts back toward the locker room.
It's time to make the coffee.
Back in a hallway, in a jet-black carry-on padded suitcase, the necessaries are retrieved: coffee beans from Water Avenue (a Portland roaster), electric grinder, electric kettle, two stainless-steel 16-ounce French press coffeemakers, and powdered, organic, coconut-based "superfood" creamer.