INDEPENDENCE: Las Vegas doesn’t like them. Draymond Green doesn’t like them.
But with the Cavaliers and Golden State Warriors meeting in the NBA Finals for the third consecutive year starting Thursday, it was hard to tell if the defending champion Cavs will draw on their role as underdogs for motivation.
“The whole underdog thing is funny to me because, yeah, at the end of the day we are defending our title,” Kevin Love said Saturday. “We’re trying to repeat, which is so hard to do. I think we will use it as fuel, we will use it as motivation, but the idea of playing into it?