Jordan Poole has plopped down on the floor of an animal shelter. He’s sitting crisscross applesauce and playing with kittens. He takes one of those colorful cat charmers from Cindy the volunteer and twirls it in front of Cheeto the dancing cat. Dander sticks out on his all-black attire, and Poole doesn’t care.

If you haven’t figured it out by now, Jordan Poole is a cat guy. More like a cat daddy, as he tends to say. Though Poole’s shooting a career-best mark from the three-point line (40.1 percent) and