Alex McKechnie is sitting in his car outside the Kerlan-Jobe clinic, a Scotsman in Los Angeles glancing back and forth at the entrance as he waits for a player to emerge. He is the Director of Sports Science for the Toronto Raptors and owner of five NBA championships. Now a member of the British Columbia Sports Hall of Fame, McKechnie, from his front seat, is deliberating on whether he feels more Scottish or Canadian. “I would like to say both”, McKechnie says in an unmistakable Glaswegian tone. “I do not think I can give up the accent.” That trait has set him apart since 1974, the year he first arrived in Vancouver and the beginning of one of the more illustrious and wide-ranging physiotherapy careers imaginable. McKechnie has turned, twisted and drilled some of the biggest names in sports, wining and dining those who possess the greatest of stories. “I am a long way from Glasgow, that is for sure.” He finds himself in the very parking lot - McKechnie would not have known to call it that 50 years ago - where he originally connected with Shaquille O’Neal, the first NBA athlete he ever worked with. “Where can you go from there?”, he asks with a chuckle.