The sun hadn’t even risen outside, and all the eyes in the locker room bore into its smallest player—5-foot-7 “on a good day” even though the media guide lists him at 5-foot-10—as he walked toward his locker, giving the room a colder feeling than the early January temperatures outside.
What was the video guy doing in the locker room? Even more puzzling: Why did the video guy have a locker?
“That was probably the most nervous I’ve been in my entire life, because everyone knew my face but they didn’t know what I was doing in there,” he recalls.