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As long as his team was playing well — which it has since his trade from the Minnesota Timberwolves — Kevin Love wasn’t likely to be dogged by the type of locker room rumors as he was with the Timberwolves. Those days are over. Read more →
Kevin Love is so bad that a city that is pretty comfortable with losing isn’t comfortable with losing with him. Read more →
Former Minnesota Timberwolves star Kevin returns to the state he spurned tomorrow night when the Cleveland Cavaliers make their one and only appearance at Target Center.
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Flip Saunders, the coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves, shifted attention from his worst-in-the-west (and not by a little) franchise by delivering yet another shot at Love, whom the Wolves will play tomorrow night in Cleveland.
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Former Minnesota Timberwolves star Kevin Love has penned a ‘goodbye’, sort of, to Minnesota Read more →
While the new Minnesota Timberwolves were enthralling fans at the Minnesota State Fair today, the Cleveland sports media welcomed Kevin Love, the first time Love has spoken since he forced a trade from the Timberwolves. “It means a lot,” he said. “LeBron had signed to come back with the Cleveland Cavaliers and just a few Read more →
Kevin Love is gone now and the Ricky Rubio watch is now officially underway with a report that the onetime franchise savior has turned down a deal that would keep him in Minnesota. Read more →
Kevin Love is shedding his past in a big way, first dumping Minnesota and now the number — 42 — he’s worn in high school, college at UCLA, and in the NBA with the Timberwolves. The new number? Behold: We won’t know for certain what this is all about until Love is introduced to the Read more →
Cleveland is already treating Kevin Love with the adoration Minnesota never did. He’s not even the top player on his team and he gets the mural-on-the-side-of-a-building treatment. So this is going up in downtown Cleveland as we speak. #Love pic.twitter.com/v2xZfrvNFm — Dustin Fox (@DustinFox37) August 25, 2014 Coincidentally, the mural replaces another one on the Read more →
Well played, Twin Cities comedian Mike Brody. Related: Kevin Love: Overrated, Underrated, or Properly Rated? (Grantland).
Love, having spurned Minnesota, now takes his place in the long line of vilified Minnesota athletes. But basketball is a business, and Love and his agent played their hand perfectly. Read more →
It’s probably not much of a secret that Kevin Love has played his last game in a Minnesota Timberwolves uniform. Today, there’s another indication that he’s about to start playing them in a Cleveland Cavaliers uniform. According to the website, BC Cleveland, the NBA online store has discontinued selling the Andrew Wiggins Cavalier jersey, even Read more →
These are tough times for the self-esteem of Minnesota Timberwolves fans. Kevin Love can’t get himself out of town fast enough and he probably won’t even pause long enough to say “see ya,” when he’s finally traded. It would be refreshing if whomever is coming here would be excited as all getout to play in Read more →
Our collective self esteem is going to take a hit this summer. We hate being rejected but Timberwolves star Kevin Love apparently is going to make sure his exit from Minnesota hurts good.
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