A 45-minute drive past strip malls, refineries and pastures, Tomball, Tex., is Houston pro-sports country where they cheered the Astros' World Series championship last fall and plan to do so again if their Rockets parlay the NBA's best regular-season record into an NBA title.
But not everybody, not today with Timberwolves All-Star and the pride of Tomball Jimmy Butler in town for a first-round playoff series.
His English teacher Allie Pruett is a Rockets fan most years and most days.
"I'm from around here so, yes, typically, I would have been a Rockets fan," she said, "but Jimmy's in town.