Listed as questionable on the injury report, Jimmy Butler was ruled out prior to tipoff and his status remains up in the air for Game 4 on Monday. Buddy Hield drained five 3-pointers and scored 17 points in his absence and afterward embraced the comic book reference coined by Butler.

Hey fellas, I’m gonna utter some words that have never been spoken before by anybody on Earth," Kerr said. "Buddy Hield, you set the tone defensively... I'm gonna say it agai

"He's huge in the locker room," Draymond Green added of Hield. "He's huge on the plane. Just for the aura of this team, he's big."