Kevin Love

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Basketball player
Kevin Love
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Player information
Full name Kevin Wesley Love
birthday 7th September 1988 (age 31)
place of birth Santa Monica , California , USA
size 203 cm
position Power Forward / Center
college UCLA
NBA draft 2008 , 5th pick , Memphis Grizzlies
Club information
society Cleveland Cavaliers
league NBA
Jersey number 0
Clubs as active
2008-2014 United StatesUnited States Minnesota Timberwolves
2014–0000 United StatesUnited States Cleveland Cavaliers
National team 1
2010–0000 United StatesUnited States United States 13 games
1 As of July 17, 2012

Kevin Wesley Love (born September 7, 1988 in Santa Monica , California ) is an American basketball player who is currently active with the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA . With a size of 2.03 meters, it is mainly used as a power forward , but also as a center .

Love is a four-time NBA All-Star and won the NBA Championship with the Cavaliers in 2016 . He also won the World Cup with Team USA in 2010 and was Olympic champion at the Summer Games in London in 2012 .

Beginnings

childhood

Love was born in Santa Monica , California , the second of three children of Stan and Karen Love , and moved with his parents to Portland , Oregon a year later . His father Stan Love played in the 1970s as a forward in the NBA for the Baltimore Bullets and the Los Angeles Lakers . Kevin Love is a nephew of Beach Boys member Mike Love , who is Stan's brother. His aunt is the harpist Maureen Love.

Love's father introduced him to basketball at an early age and showed him footage of the Los Angeles Lakers at the time of Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and the Boston Celtics . Other great players he began studying video at the age of five were Hakeem Olajuwon , David Robinson , Charles Barkley, and Michael Jordan .

High school

Love attended Lake Oswego High School in Clackamas County , Oregon . There he was one of the best basketball players of his year. In his high school career, he achieved 26.8 points and 14.5 rebounds per game. As a 10th grade student, he leads Lake Oswego into the 2005 Oregon State High School Basketball Championship Game, but the team lost 57:53 to Jesuit High School.

college

Love as a UCLA player (2008)

In July 2006, Love announced that he would be playing for the University of California, Los Angeles . On April 17, 2008, he announced that he would leave the UCLA Bruins after his freshman year and sign up for the NBA draft .

NBA career

Minnesota Timberwolves (2008-2014)

Love was drafted by Memphis Grizzlies and then transferred to the Timberwolves in an 8-player deal. In his first Summer League game against the Dallas Mavericks Love got 18 points and 13 rebounds and in his second game against the Los Angeles Lakers he scored 18 points and 17 rebounds.

Love's first participation in an NBA game was for a total of 19 minutes on October 29, 2008 against the Sacramento Kings; while he was able to contribute 12 points, 9 rebounds and two blocks to the 98:96 victory of the Timberwolves . During his first season he got an average of 11.1 points and 9.1 rebounds. With 29 double doubles he was the tenth best player in 2008/2009 and with 734 rebounds the best rookie in the franchise so far. He finished 6th in the NBA Rookie of the Year award at the end of the season .

His sophomore season began with an injury in a pre-season game against the Chicago Bulls on October 16, 2009. He suffered a fracture in his left hand, causing him to miss the first 19 games of the season. Love returned in December playing at the New Orleans Hornets , where he came off the bench with 11 points and rebounds in 24 minutes. At the end of the season there were 14.0 points and 11.1 rebounds for Love. Despite the missed missions, he scored 36 more double doubles than in the previous season and was the seventh best player in 2009/10 at this value. With 25 rebounds, Love managed a game with more than 20 rebounds for the first time in his NBA career this season.

Love with the Timberwolves (2014)

In the following season he became one of the top players in the league. On November 12, 2010 he got 31 points, 31 rebounds and 5 assists in the game against the New York Knicks . This was the first NBA game in 28 years in which a player scored a double-double with more than 30 points and rebounds. His 31 rebounds are also the highest value ever achieved by a Minnesota Timberwolves player in an NBA game. On February 4, 2011, Love was named an All-Star as a reserve for the injured Yao Ming . Four days later Love posted his 38th double-double in a row, breaking a Minnesota Timberwolves team record previously held by Kevin Garnett . On February 27, 2011 Love scored 37 points and got 23 rebounds against the Golden State Warriors . This was his fourth 30/20 game of the season and the highest number of games with these stats since Shaquille O'Neal recorded five such games in 1999/00. On March 7, 2011 he scored in a game against the Dallas Mavericks with 23 points and 17 rebounds his 51st double-double in a row, which he set the previous record of Moses Malone . On March 9, 2011 Love scored his 52nd double-double in a row, setting a new NBA record (since the merger of the NBA and the ABA ) for consecutive double-doubles. There were a total of 64 double doubles at the end of the season, making him the best NBA player in this statistic. Love was named Most Improved Player for his increase at the end of the 2010/11 season . He is the first player since 1983 to score more than 20 points and more than 15 rebounds per game. The last to succeed was Moses Malone.

In the 2011/12 season , his contract was extended by 4 years, with the 4th year being a player option. On March 24, 2012, he set Kevin Garnett's previous team record with 51 points. Love reached double-digit points and rebounds again this season, 48 double doubles, making him the best in the NBA, and was voted into the All-Star Team. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he won the gold medal with the US selection.

Due to a serious hand injury, Love completed only 18 games for the Timberwolves in the 2012/13 season . In 2014 Love was appointed to the starting line-up of the Western Conference for the first time. Love had a very good season and was called up to the All-NBA Second Team at the end of the season . However, he again missed the playoff qualification with the Timberwolves.

Cleveland Cavaliers (since 2014)

In the summer of 2014, the Timberwolves transferred Love to the Cleveland Cavaliers in exchange for the talents Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett . In the Cavaliers, he played alongside LeBron James and Kyrie Irving . After a good regular season with the Cavs, with an average of 16.4 points and 9.7 rebounds per game, Love injured his shoulder badly when he won the 4th game in the first round of the playoffs against the Boston Celtics . He was therefore out for the rest of the playoffs. Without him, the Cavaliers made it to the NBA final , but lost there against the Golden State Warriors .

In 2016 Love reached the NBA finals with the Cavaliers and won his first NBA championship alongside James and Irving.

Achievements and Awards

NBA

International

NBA statistics

Legend
  GP Matches played ( Games Played )   GS  Games from the beginning ( Games started )  MPG  Graduated minutes per game ( Minutes per game )
 FG%  Throw rate from the field ( field goal percentage )  3P%  Throwing quota three-point throws ( 3-point field-goal percentage )  FT%  Free throw rate ( free-throw percentage )
 RPG  Rebounds per game ( rebounds per game )  APG  Assists per game ( assists per game )  SPG  Steals per game ( steals per game )
 BPG  Blocks per game ( blocks per game )  PPG  Points per game ( points per game )    
  NBA championship   Season best per player  FAT  Career record

Regular season

season team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2008-09 Minnesota 81 37 25.3 .459 .105 .789 9.1 1.0 .4 .6 11.1
2009-10 Minnesota 60 22nd 28.6 .450 .330 .815 11.0 2.3 .7 .4 14.0
2010-11 Minnesota 73 73 35.8 .470 .417 .850 15.2 2.5 .6 .4 20.2
2011-12 Minnesota 55 55 39.0 .448 .372 .824 13.3 2.0 .9 .5 26.0
2012–13 Minnesota 18th 18th 34.3 .352 .217 .704 14.0 2.3 .7 .5 18.3
2013-14 Minnesota 77 77 36.3 .457 .376 .821 12.5 4.4 .8th .5 26.1
2014–15 Cleveland 75 75 33.8 .434 .367 .804 9.7 2.2 .7 .5 16.4
2015–16 Cleveland 77 77 31.5 .419 .360 .822 9.9 2.4 .8th .5 16.0
2016–17 Cleveland 60 60 31.4 .427 .373 .871 11.1 1.9 .9 .4 19.0
2017-18 Cleveland 59 59 28.0 .458 .415 .880 9.3 1.7 .7 .4 17.6
2018–19 Cleveland 22nd 21st 27.2 .385 .361 .904 10.9 2.2 .3 .2 17.0
Career 657 574 32.0 .442 .370 .827 11.3 2.3 .7 .5 18.3
All star 3 1 21.0 .500 .364 .286 6.7 1.3 1.3 .0 10.7

Play-offs

season team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
2014–15 Cleveland 4th 4th 26.8 .415 .429 .737 7.0 2.5 .3 .5 14.3
2015–16 Cleveland 20th 19th 30.7 .385 .414 .840 8.8 2.1 .5 .4 14.7
2016–17 Cleveland 21st 21st 32.1 .436 .450 .840 10.6 1.7 1.2 .9 16.8
2017-18 Cleveland 18th 18th 31.4 .392 .340 .922 10.2 1.6 0.7 .4 14.9
total 63 62 31.1 .403 .404 .854 9.7 1.8 .7 .5 15.3

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Web links

Commons : Kevin Love  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ All-Time USA Basketball Men's Roster // L ( Memento from April 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Official NBA bio of Kevin Love. In: nba.com. Retrieved May 25, 2020 (English).
  3. ↑ a b http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/18/sports/ncaabasketball/18ucla.html?_r=1 accessed on April 14, 2012
  4. ↑ a b uclabruins.com: Player Bio: Kevin Love - Men's Basketball - UCLA OFFICIAL ATHLETIC SITE ( Memento February 23, 2011 on WebCite ) , accessed May 14, 2009
  5. ↑ Feelin 'the Love Old-school hoops phenom turning heads all over ( memento June 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 14, 2012
  6. ↑ http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/recap?gid=2008102916, accessed April 14, 2012
  7. ↑ http://basketball.realgm.com/nba/stats/2009/Misc_Stats/Qualified/dbl_dbl/PF/asc/2/Regular_Season accessed on April 14
  8. ↑ a b http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4567788 accessed on April 14, 2012
  9. ↑ http://www.nba.com/2009/news/features/steve_aschburner/12/11/love.doubles/index.html accessed on April 14, 2012
  10. ↑ http://basketball.realgm.com/nba/stats/2010/Misc_Stats/Qualified/dbl_dbl/PF/asc/2/Regular_Season accessed on April 14, 2012
  11. ↑ http://basketball.realgm.com/nba/stats/2010/Misc_Stats/Qualified/twenty_reb/PF/asc/2/Regular_Season accessed on April 14, 2012
  12. ↑ Kevin Love: 31 points, 31 rebounds! Announcement on spox.com dated November 13, 2010
  13. ↑ Kevin Love All-Star 2011 ( Memento from February 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  14. ↑ 38. Double doubles in a row
  15. ↑ espn.com: BoxScore Timberwolves - Warriors , February 27, 2011
  16. ↑ espn.com: Love dominates Warriors , February 28, 2011
  17. ↑ Dallas Victory - Love sets a record announcement on spox.com dated March 8, 2011
  18. ↑ relevant.at: Love double-double record , March 10, 2011
  19. ↑ http://basketball.realgm.com/nba/stats/2011/Misc_Stats/Qualified/dbl_dbl/PF/asc/2/Regular_Season accessed on April 14, 2012
  20. ↑ Love wins Most Improved Player Award ( Memento from April 21, 2011 on WebCite ), April 21, 2011
  21. ↑ Love extended by 4 years , February 8, 2012
  22. ↑ Friday March 23, 2012
  23. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on April 14, 2012
  24. ↑ Archived copy ( memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on April 14, 2012
  25. ↑ Archived copy ( memento from August 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on April 14, 2012
  26. ^ Dwight Howard highlights reserves
  27. ↑ sportal.de: Cleveland Kavaliers commit Love , accessed on August 23, 2014
  28. ↑ Kevin Love Stats
personal data
SURNAME Love, Kevin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Love, Kevin Wesley (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Monica , California , United States