Chicago Bulls guard Jimmy Butler woke up at 5 a.m. every day this offseason, and it’s all because of … Mark Wahlberg?
A Chicago Magazine profile published Monday revealed Butler apparently has been good friends with Wahlberg since 2013, when the Boston-born actor filmed “Transformers: Age of Extinction” in Chicago. The two have even vacationed in Paris together twice, including a month-long trip this summer.
But it’s Wahlberg’s workout routine that really caught Butler’s eye.
“I just saw the way he got after it, the way he would train,” Butler said. “I was like, You know what?