Underdogs? Nah.
Jimmy Butler knows not many expected his Miami Heat to reach the NBA Finals. And not many will take them against the Los Angeles Lakers when that series gets underway on Wednesday night.
But he doesn’t like to think of his team as the underdogs and explained in a media conference what he does see the Heat as ahead of Game 1.
“A really good team. That’s it. A really good team. [I’m] not gonna say that we’re any better than anybody else, but I just don’t think that we’re underdogs.