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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
I'm hoping he wants one more chance to compete for a Championship like he wanted one more chance to win another Olympic gold medal. If that's the case, he will ask for a buyout so he can sign with a team that has a chance to win now.
I believe Love is trying to have his cake and eat it too by not negotiating a buyout with the Cavs even though he doesn't want to be here.

He's probably gonna make his money, rehab, and get in better shape without having to step on the court as Cavalier much at all. Then revisit a buyout when he feels physically ready and more willing to take a financial loss.
 
He should just retire.

Has there been such a bad ending for a champion All-NBA caliber player?

There have been injuries, bad fits, substance abuse and freak accidents ending careers.

But has there recently been an example of such a player quitting the game without retiring while bilking his team for the max?
 
I don’t doubt his struggle with mental health in the past, or having a true low point in life, but…now, it seems he like pulled trough, developed taste for not working and getting paid and just milking the story.
We all have people like that in our own life/work even if they are paid substantially less for not doing their jobs… People unable to get trough trouble or are in the middle of mental health crisis are not just cutting out the “troubled” part of life, but are struggling all over the place.
Most of us definitely want to live life to the fullest, but when it comes to work, the percentage drops significantly..
 
No Blatt’s firing was all LBJ’s doing. When time outs were called LBJ would walk right past Blatt and engage Lue in time out talks and the team followed his lead!
Wow, that’s so disrespectful! These athletes are such primma Donna’s nowadays
 
He should just retire.

Has there been such a bad ending for a champion All-NBA caliber player?

There have been injuries, bad fits, substance abuse and freak accidents ending careers.

But has there recently been an example of such a player quitting the game without retiring while bilking his team for the max?
I agree. His body is failing and his heart doesn’t seem to be into it anymore. However, I really doubt his agent will let him walk away from the $60 million lottery ticket that he is holding, courtesy of Dan Gilbert.
 
If his heart isn’t into it then why accept an invite to the Olympics?

You aren't wrong.

What I've believed for a long time is that Love takes long breaks away from training in the off-season every year. People warned him to take more preventive measures but he blew them off, knowing he always plays himself back into shape during the regular season.

Father time finally caught up with him and he learned his body won't always just bounce back in a few weeks.

But did he purposefully decide he doesn't want to be an NBA starter anymore? Absolutely not. And there is a difference.
 
I agree. His body is failing and his heart doesn’t seem to be into it anymore. However, I really doubt his agent will let him walk away from the $60 million lottery ticket that he is holding, courtesy of Dan Gilbert.
He certainly will not retire and walk away from 60 million. I say just see his health and mindset and hope you can use him in short spurts. Or do a drummond on him and tell him to stay home. To buy him out to save 1 mil makes little sense. What a horrible way for him to end his career. Well at least he got his $$$$. He is losing all respect though
 
He should just retire.

Has there been such a bad ending for a champion All-NBA caliber player?

There have been injuries, bad fits, substance abuse and freak accidents ending careers.

But has there recently been an example of such a player quitting the game without retiring while bilking his team for the max?

Some of this can be caulked up to injuries and the Cavs tanking.

I think we could see that the injuries were starting to creep up on Love even while Lebron was still here. The mistake on the Cavs part was giving him the extension and not just trading him away right away. Even after they gave him the extension there were rumors that teams were offering assets for Love but the Cavs didn't like the offers. Koby basically wait too long for the right offer that never came then the offers most likely just kept getting worse and worse.

At this point he isn't a star player, he is a role player even if the Cavs use him as a 3rd option when he is healthy. In that sense I think that where he got in trouble with the Olympic team, he was use to being a 3rd option so maybe he didn't realize his decline was as much as it actually was. 3rd option on a championship team behind LBJ and Kyrie is alot different than a 3rd option behind Sexton and Garland.
 
I dunno. Portland is essentially a third world country at this point. I wouldn't go there for anything.
Such an unnecessary, distorted, cherry picked, and inaccurate statement but I’ll just leave it at that and not lead this down the path to a conversation ill suited for a thread in the basketball forum.
 
He should just retire.

Has there been such a bad ending for a champion All-NBA caliber player?

There have been injuries, bad fits, substance abuse and freak accidents ending careers.

But has there recently been an example of such a player quitting the game without retiring while bilking his team for the max?
Not a champion but first name that came to mind was Shawn kemp. He got a pretty big deal then got fat, addicted to coke and having baby’s.
 
Such an unnecessary, distorted, cherry picked, and inaccurate statement but I’ll just leave it at that and not lead this down the path to a conversation ill suited for a thread in the basketball forum.
Houston, not Portland
 

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