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Kevin Love - Miami Ground Machine

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Is Kevin Love a Hero for Saving a Dog?

  • Yes

    Votes: 28 48.3%

  • Too Right!

    Votes: 2 3.4%

  • Hotter than Jimmy G

    Votes: 15 25.9%

  • Jim Chones

    Votes: 13 22.4%
  • Total voters
    58
Windy on the Cavs being underdogs vs the Bulls without Love

-Fiction - Which team has the best player? Which team has the 2nd best player? Which team has home court?

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Kind of goes to show how stacked we are this year... Just trying to prepare for life without Kevin in a non apocalyptic kind of way.

On the other hand, cavs shooting 40% from 3 with love in the game, 22.2% with love out of the game

On the court 125.5 points per 100, off the court 97.2 per 100.....

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This could perhaps be one of the biggest signs of an imminent departure. If he were staying here, he'd opt-in and get a huge contract from either us or anyone in the next offseason because of the cap. Looking at this free agency period with extra attention could signal he might be planning on leaving.
 
Kurt Helin of Pro Basketball Talk read it the same way I did.

http://probasketballtalk.nbcsports....etable/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

"Love certainly wants to help the Cavaliers win this year. But can also become a free agent this summer, and he also surely doesn’t want to limit his options by scaring off teams due to an injury he played through.

There’s no easy answer here, but with Cleveland already in the second round and awaiting its next opponent (Bulls or Bucks), he has a little time to deliberate.

He also has a $16,744,219 player option for next season. Under normal circumstances, he should opt out, even if it’s just to re-sign with the Cavaliers. But it also offers him protection if he’s injured heading into the offseason.

For the Cavaliers, LeBron James and Kyrie Irving can alone form the core of a very good team, but it will be difficult for Cleveland to reach elite levels without Love."
 
supermario21 said:
This could perhaps be one of the biggest signs of an imminent departure. If he were staying here, he'd opt-in and get a huge contract from either us or anyone in the next offseason because of the cap. Looking at this free agency period with extra attention could signal he might be planning on leaving.
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Nope. This is nowhere near the case.

Regardless of if he's planning on leaving or staying, his contract is approaching an end. If he's going to capitalize on his next contract REGARDLESS of who employs him, he needs to be careful with his health.
 
InBoobieWeTrust said:
My uneducated guess, no sources or anything to back this up..

Love tore something, will need surgery regardless. Playing through it will most likely be super painful, super dangerous, and likely render him ineffective.

Think we shut him down for the rest of the season, do the best we can, and take another shot next year with the team together an entire yet from start-to-finish.
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this hurts. Bad.
 
Granted he can technically be a free agent this summer....I think that part of it is being over blown.

I'm 100 percent certain that he will only do a one year deal for 2015-2016 and look to get the pay bump in his next long contract next summer.

If he does leave it wouldn't be this summer. Doesn't make financial sense.
 
supermario21 said:
This could perhaps be one of the biggest signs of an imminent departure. If he were staying here, he'd opt-in and get a huge contract from either us or anyone in the next offseason because of the cap. Looking at this free agency period with extra attention could signal he might be planning on leaving.
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No it doesn't. It means that should he mess his shoulder up in a more permanent way, no one including the Cavs will pay him a max contract. He has to consider his career and balance it with this season. And as Cav fans, we all need to realize that's the best thing long term for everyone. Rushing back too soon and giving himself a permanent disability does no one any good.
 
Think we need to just prepare for the reality that Love ain't gonna be showing up in any meaningful way unless perhaps we can make it to the finals. And even then it might not happen. Yesterday was the day to go through the emotional scale, today is a just another dose of Cleveland sports reality.

We can still get to the finals without him. The Bulls and Hawks have many weaknesses of their own and it is just a bizarre sense of favoritism that is causing everyone on TV to say the Bulls have the advantage, even now. The question would be, could we win the finals without him, and that has become much more worrisome and improbable. But perhaps still possible. LeBron + Kyrie is a pretty monstrous combination.

Another question to pose is do we really want Love out there seriously risking his future when it looks like we still have a 3-4 year championship window open at the least and he would be sorely needed for that?
 
Next season we gotta do a better job of getting QUALITY role players. Not has beens like marion, miller and jones. Trade love if you have to. Our lack of depth is really killing us.
 
Can't we just fit Love with a kind of kevlar exoskeleton, that would protect the shoulder and still allow him to mix it up underneath? I mean, come on - this is the third millennium of the Christian Era!
 
KilgoreTrout said:
Can't we just fit Love with a kind of kevlar exoskeleton, that would protect the shoulder and still allow him to mix it up underneath? I mean, come on - this is the third millennium of the Christian Era!
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I say load his ass up on morphine and see how it goes
 
As for him leaving, I don't think that's even a worry. He's going to opt-in , and if things don't completely explode, he'll eventually re-sign in a year. He just watched his team go to battle for him right after he got injured, he's finally getting some credit and gelling with the team, and we can give him the most money and years.

Done for this year, but we're in a great situation for the next 5.
 
Ryan Gladish said:
Next season we gotta do a better job of getting QUALITY role players. Not has beens like marion, miller and jones. Trade love if you have to. Our lack of depth is really killing us.
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Love can't be traded since he is a free agent. But the rest of the post is true. Should sign Jeremy Lin with the MLE to back up Kyrie and then use Haywood's contract to trade for a back up SF.
 
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