INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- Everywhere from the Las Vegas sports books to ESPN's Basketball Percentage Index to even LeBron James' framing of the 2017 NBA Finals has the Cleveland Cavaliers as heavy underdogs against the Golden State Warriors.
But Kevin Love doesn't buy it.
"The whole underdog thing is funny to me, because, yeah, at the end of the day we are defending our title," Love said Saturday following the Cavs' first practice in preparation for the Warriors since clinching a spot in the Finals on Thursday. "We're trying to repeat, which is so hard to do.