SHANGHAI -- As Jimmy Butler looks around his current surroundings, even he can't believe what he is seeing.
The Texas native is standing on a basketball court over 7,500 miles from his childhood home, in a foreign country halfway around the globe. The 28-year-old is in Shanghai as part of the NBA's Global Games as a member of the Minnesota Timberwolves, but on this night he is representing the brand of the player he grew up idolizing like so many other kids across the world: Michael Jordan.
There are signs with Butler's face plastered around the basketball complex with a phrase written out in Chinese characters -- "Commit to win.