PSG will be represented in the 2020 NBA Finals, pitting the Miami Heat against the Los Angeles Lakers.
One of the big fans of the club from the capital is playing in Florida and is starting his first career finals this Wednesday evening: here is Jimmy Butler.
A key part of his team, the 31-year-old Texan is one of the stars of the American national basketball championship.
Who shows his love of PSG to his teammates and his many followers.
On August 23, while he was already in the Orlando "bubble", where the NBA resumed the season course away from the coronavirus, Jimmy Butler was in place from 3 p.m. local time to the Champions League final between PSG and Bayern Munich.
Concentrated, he wears the white tunic of the Parisian club, flocked with his name and the number 10 of his friend Neymar.
An image shared with its 5.3 million Instagram subscribers, which also attracted the "likes" of Parisian players like Thiago Silva.
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y'all already know who i'm rocking with #sezpsg #championsleague
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"I room it all the time on PSG, said in September Goran Dragic, Slovenian teammate of Jimmy Butler in the columns of Sports Illustrated.
We watched the Champions League final together.
But this time I left him alone.
He was in a bad mood.
I told myself now was not the time.
"
A real passion
The passion of the 31-year-old winger for PSG is not feigned, not just a marketing element, like Kevin Durant or Karl-Anthony Towns, other figures in the NBA, who could be "used" to promote of the Parisian club.
The red and blue club is very caring with Jimmy Butler, nicknamed "Buckets" for his ability to register decisive "baskets".
Each season, the former Chicago Bulls player receives the new jerseys, delivered in pretty boxes.
The day of the Parisian victory in the semi-finals of the Champions League against RB Leipzig (3-0), Butler arrives with the 2020-2021 home tunic on his shoulders for the start of the playoffs.
Coincidence: he plants 28 points, finishes top scorer of the match and leaves with the victory.
Meeting with Neymar in 2017
His love for PSG does not date from the Canal + era, or even the beginning of the QSI era.
His passion for football, "soccer" for this American, was born near Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
“When I was young, my friends played there but it was not my thing, he explained in February in an interview with Fifa.
I really started to take an interest in it since the 2016 Olympics. I had never watched a pro match.
I went to see Neymar and Brazil win ”.
Since then, he has not left the Auriverde jersey of the Seleção ...
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In 2017, Butler even wears it in the streets of the French capital, during Fashion Week.
“I don't know how, but we became friends”, added Butler of Neymar, “the best player of all time”.
He then swaps the Brazilian tunic for that of PSG.
And even when he opens a bottle of wine with his friend and star actor Mark Wahlberg, he poses in his red and blue club tracksuit!
PSG, attentive to the development of its brand, invites it in August 2018 to spend a moment between Parc des Princes and Camp des Loges.
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The coup is successful.
Especially since less than a month after this visit, the “Jordan x PSG” partnership, of which Butler will become an ambassador in 2019, was unveiled.
“It was funny because he asked almost as much to pose in picture as the players, tells a witness of the walk of Butler in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
In these moments, you realize that although they are all millionaires, they are children who admire themselves.
"
Now it's Neymar's turn to admire and support Butler in the NBA Finals.
A moment that should open the chamber with Kylian Mbappé who leans more towards the Lakers of LeBron James.
