TOMBALL, TEXAS – If you don't know how four-time NBA All-Star Jimmy Butler defied the odds to get from there to here, his social media account bios will tell you.
His Twitter profile reads "From Tomball, all the way to the Minnesota Timberwolves," while on Instagram it's "small town to a big city = tomball to minneapolis."
And if you don't know where Tomball is, just drive 45 minutes northwest from downtown Houston. You'll pass refineries, strip malls and open pasture until you come to a town that isn't as small and not as country as the place where he grew up, not since the tollway went in.