NBA: 'We're no underdogs' - Jimmy Butler and the Miami Heat ready for the biggest shock of all

Orlando - Jimmy Butler says the Miami Heat don't see themselves as National Basketball Association Finals underdogs despite starting the season as rank outsiders for the title.

Even before the season restarted in Orlando in July, the Heat were a generous 30-1 to win the title, with the dominant Milwaukee Bucks expected to emerge as the Eastern Conference representatives in the Finals. "Not going to say that we're any better than anybody else, but I just don't think that we're underdogs. I don't."So what that nobody picked us to be here? That's okay. Pretty sure nobody is picking up to win, either.

Butler says the Heat have become a tight-knit group during the months spent in the Orlando bubble in Florida, where teams have been based since the restart in order to ward off the threat of Covid-19. "With this group, we've got the right number of young guys who are super confident, older guys who are super confident, and then guys right in the middle who are super confident. It brings us pure joy to watch us continually grow as a team."

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