Kevin Love - Miami Ground Machine

[I-77 NORTH]

In all honesty, the white dude with long hair was wrong - but Kevin Love needs to be stronger than that.

You think this would have happened with Lebron? He would have muscled his way through that arm hold, and got rigt back to boxing out. I know, because I've seen it before.

With all due respect to K Love, I'll be pretty pissed off at him if he misses anymore than 2 games. Need surgery? Well hold off on that until the season is over. You need to muscle through this.

Isaiah Thomas played with a broken ankle for 30+ min in a game in which he dominated. He left 0 excuses out there and went hard. These are where NBA stars are born. Right there out on the playoff hardwood. He needs to get his arm straightened out, get a little conditioning in and wrap that damn arm up and head back out there by game 2. I don't wanna hear any excuses.

 

[Chris]

In all honesty, the white dude with long hair was wrong - but Kevin Love needs to be stronger than that.

You think this would have happened with Lebron? He would have muscled his way through that arm hold, and got rigt back to boxing out. I know, because I've seen it before.

With all due respect to K Love, I'll be pretty pissed off at him if he misses anymore than 2 games. Need surgery? Well hold off on that until the season is over. You need to muscle through this.

Isaiah Thomas played with a broken ankle for 30+ min in a game in which he dominated. He left 0 excuses out there and went hard. These are where NBA stars are born. Right there out on the playoff hardwood. He needs to get his arm straightened out, get a little conditioning in and wrap that damn arm up and head back out there by game 2. I don't wanna hear any excuses.

Not sure...if serious?

 

[Marcus]

In all honesty, the white dude with long hair was wrong - but Kevin Love needs to be stronger than that.

You think this would have happened with Lebron? He would have muscled his way through that arm hold, and got rigt back to boxing out. I know, because I've seen it before.

With all due respect to K Love, I'll be pretty pissed off at him if he misses anymore than 2 games. Need surgery? Well hold off on that until the season is over. You need to muscle through this.

Isaiah Thomas played with a broken ankle for 30+ min in a game in which he dominated. He left 0 excuses out there and went hard. These are where NBA stars are born. Right there out on the playoff hardwood. He needs to get his arm straightened out, get a little conditioning in and wrap that damn arm up and head back out there by game 2. I don't wanna hear any excuses.

 

[Binkster]

When Irving had that scary shoulder injury earlier in the season, MRI results were reported by the media around 3:30 PM the day of the scan.

Just an idea of timing...

 

[Douglar]

It's long, as you might expect in a grantland piece. Here's the Klove part--

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nba-playoffs-kevin-love-cleveland-boston/

With 5:22 remaining in the first quarter of Cleveland’s sweep of the never-say-die Celtics, Kevin Love became entangled with the pale, wavy-tressed Canadian personage of known non-thug Kelly Olynyk as the pair chased a rebound. Olynyk, out of position, attempted to execute the de rigueur big-man position jostle/dirt move wherein a player traps an opponent’s arm by pinning it between the arm and body. It was the kind of shady boxout jujitsu that’s deployed on the regular by practically every big guy in the NBA who’s any good. Names like Bogut, Z-Bo, and Griffin come to mind.

The difference being when those dudes trap a guy’s arm, it’s under relatively static circumstances — standing under the hoop, for example — and it lasts only a second. Love was running toward the ball, and after locking down on his arm, Olynyk held on and twisted in the opposite direction. Love’s shoulder popped out of its socket like the wing of a game fowl at dinnertime.​

 

[Green Lantern]

In all honesty, the white dude with long hair was wrong - but Kevin Love needs to be stronger than that.

You think this would have happened with Lebron? He would have muscled his way through that arm hold, and got rigt back to boxing out. I know, because I've seen it before.

With all due respect to K Love, I'll be pretty pissed off at him if he misses anymore than 2 games. Need surgery? Well hold off on that until the season is over. You need to muscle through this.

Isaiah Thomas played with a broken ankle for 30+ min in a game in which he dominated. He left 0 excuses out there and went hard. These are where NBA stars are born. Right there out on the playoff hardwood. He needs to get his arm straightened out, get a little conditioning in and wrap that damn arm up and head back out there by game 2. I don't wanna hear any excuses.

Did you spend too much time on I-77 crashing into orange barrels?

 

[Stark]

In all honesty, the white dude with long hair was wrong - but Kevin Love needs to be stronger than that.

You think this would have happened with Lebron? He would have muscled his way through that arm hold, and got rigt back to boxing out. I know, because I've seen it before.

With all due respect to K Love, I'll be pretty pissed off at him if he misses anymore than 2 games. Need surgery? Well hold off on that until the season is over. You need to muscle through this.

Isaiah Thomas played with a broken ankle for 30+ min in a game in which he dominated. He left 0 excuses out there and went hard. These are where NBA stars are born. Right there out on the playoff hardwood. He needs to get his arm straightened out, get a little conditioning in and wrap that damn arm up and head back out there by game 2. I don't wanna hear any excuses.

 

[Cayman13]

Can we please stop posting articles and tweets from miscellaneous doctors that have nothing to do with the Cavs? They can't diagnose anything, please stop with it, it's stressing me out. HA!

 

[Ohio]

The last 60 pages are just the same shit getting posted over and over again.

Man we need some MRI results and a suspension verdict ASAP.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Did you spend too much time on I-77 crashing into orange barrels?

I don't think so. I'm guessing head first into a guardrail.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

It's long, as you might expect in a grantland piece. Here's the Klove part--

http://grantland.com/the-triangle/nba-playoffs-kevin-love-cleveland-boston/

With 5:22 remaining in the first quarter of Cleveland’s sweep of the never-say-die Celtics, Kevin Love became entangled with the pale, wavy-tressed Canadian personage of known non-thug Kelly Olynyk as the pair chased a rebound. Olynyk, out of position, attempted to execute the de rigueur big-man position jostle/dirt move wherein a player traps an opponent’s arm by pinning it between the arm and body. It was the kind of shady boxout jujitsu that’s deployed on the regular by practically every big guy in the NBA who’s any good. Names like Bogut, Z-Bo, and Griffin come to mind.

The difference being when those dudes trap a guy’s arm, it’s under relatively static circumstances — standing under the hoop, for example — and it lasts only a second. Love was running toward the ball, and after locking down on his arm, Olynyk held on and twisted in the opposite direction. Love’s shoulder popped out of its socket like the wing of a game fowl at dinnertime.​

Can't believe Simmons, the Celtics homer, let this get published:

"Clearly, Olynyk meant to lock up Love’s arm, and certainly the move was of the dirty variety. Whether he actually meant Love any harm is a matter for telepaths."

 

[Binkster]

Can we please stop posting articles and tweets from miscellaneous doctors that have nothing to do with the Cavs? They can't diagnose anything, please stop with it, it's stressing me out. HA!

Somewhat agree but then again some people want to see all of the possibilities laid out beforehand.

And the possibilities are literally anything: from might play in Game 1 to might not play the rest of the postseason.

Depending on any extraneous injury and the ability of an individual to withstand pain, we might be looking at a variety of scenarios.

Being that it is the playoffs, he may make a push to comeback and play through pain sooner than later.

 

[Ruken]

Did you spend too much time on I-77 crashing into orange barrels?

You realize if if the shoulder won't work, no amount of grit makes it work right?

 

[Huber.]

I joked about it earlier, but what is the leagues HGH testing policy?

 

[Huber.]

In all honesty, the white dude with long hair was wrong - but Kevin Love needs to be stronger than that.

You think this would have happened with Lebron? He would have muscled his way through that arm hold, and got rigt back to boxing out. I know, because I've seen it before.

With all due respect to K Love, I'll be pretty pissed off at him if he misses anymore than 2 games. Need surgery? Well hold off on that until the season is over. You need to muscle through this.

Isaiah Thomas played with a broken ankle for 30+ min in a game in which he dominated. He left 0 excuses out there and went hard. These are where NBA stars are born. Right there out on the playoff hardwood. He needs to get his arm straightened out, get a little conditioning in and wrap that damn arm up and head back out there by game 2. I don't wanna hear any excuses.

Where is the dumb rating when you need it?