It is 6:30 a.m. -- just a crack after dawn -- and Wayne Hall is pounding on Tracy McGrady's front door.

Hall already has phoned ahead twice, at 6 and 6:15 a.m. to provide two wake-up calls, yet there is no movement inside the house, which is not a big surprise and not any problem, either.

Hall has the key to the door, the code to dismantle the security system and the authority to cause havoc inside.

"Time to go to work," Hall bellows when he walks through the house and finds McGrady still in bed. "You still want to be the best?"