Kevin Love
Lake Oswego, Oregon) | |||||||||||||||||||||
College | UCLA (2007–2008) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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NBA draft | 2008: 1st round, 5th overall pick | ||||||||||||||||||||
Selected by the Memphis Grizzlies | |||||||||||||||||||||
Playing career | 2008–present | ||||||||||||||||||||
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2008–2014 | Minnesota Timberwolves | ||||||||||||||||||||
2014–2023 | Cleveland Cavaliers | ||||||||||||||||||||
2023–present | Miami Heat | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Kevin Wesley Love (born September 7, 1988) is an American professional
The son of former NBA player
After six seasons with Minnesota, Love was traded to the Cavaliers in 2014. After making four straight NBA Finals with the team and winning a championship, Love suffered multiple injuries from 2018 to 2021. He slotted into a reserve role in 2021–22 and finished as runner-up for the Sixth Man of the Year award. However, reduced playing time the following season led Love to reach a contract buyout agreement with the Cavaliers. After nine seasons with Cleveland, he joined Miami in February 2023, where he reached his fifth NBA Finals in as many playoff appearances.
Early life
Love was born on September 7, 1988, in
Love played high school basketball for the
Name | Hometown | High school / college | Height | Weight | Commit date | |
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Kevin Love C |
Lake Oswego, Oregon
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Lake Oswego High | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) | 240 lb (110 kg) | Jul 25, 2006 | |
Recruiting star ratings: Scout: Rivals: 247Sports: ESPN grade: 99 | ||||||
Overall recruiting rankings: Scout: 1 (C); 12 (school) Rivals: 2 (state); 6 (national) | ||||||
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College career
In July 2006, Love verbally committed to play college basketball at
In the
Professional career
Minnesota Timberwolves (2008–2014)
Rookie season (2008–2009)
In a press conference on April 17, 2008, Love announced his intention to leave UCLA to enter the
In his NBA debut on October 29, Love came off the bench to contribute 12 points and nine rebounds in a 98–96 win over the
Sophomore season (2009–2010)
In the off-season, Love was invited to participate in the USA National Team mini-camp that was conducted from July 22 to 25 in Las Vegas.[36][37] Love also generated attention from his Twitter account when he broke the story that Kevin McHale would not return to coach the Timberwolves for the 2009–2010 season.[38]
Love began the season on the injured list when, in a pre-season game on October 16, 2009, against the
Love was selected to play in
First All-Star and Most Improved Player (2010–2011)
The Timberwolves' trade of Jefferson before the 2010–11 NBA season was expected to result in more playing time for Love. However, he averaged 28 minutes through the first nine games, exceeding 30 minutes only twice. Chris Mannix of
Love
First All-NBA selection (2011–2012)
This was Love's contract season. He had stated that he wanted to be the Timberwolves' "
Love followed up this new contract extension the subsequent night with a 31-point performance in a win over the Dallas Mavericks.[71] In January 2012, Love scored 30 points in three consecutive games for the first time in his career.[72] He began the season recording 15 straight double-doubles, the first player to do so since Hakeem Olajuwon in the beginning of the 1992–93 NBA season.[72] On January 20, Love made a three-point buzzer beater to defeat the Los Angeles Clippers.
On February 6, Love was given a two-game suspension for stepping on the face of Houston's
Injury (2012–2013)
On October 17, 2012, it was reported that Love would miss six to eight weeks after breaking the third and fourth
On January 3, 2013, Love refractured his shooting hand in a game against the Denver Nuggets. It was announced by the Timberwolves that Love's injury would require surgery and he was expected to miss an additional eight to ten weeks of playing time.[83] Prior to the second fracture, Love was shooting just 21.7 percent on three-pointers and a career-low 35 percent from the field, leading some to speculate that he had returned too quickly from his original injury.[84][85] Love himself admitted that the hand remained an issue throughout the season, saying "It's just the hand being so idle, having to strengthen it. Getting the ball to feel right in my hand has been such a struggle since getting back on the court a couple weeks ago."[86]
Final year in Minnesota (2013–2014)
On February 22, 2014, Love recorded his first career triple double with 37 points, 12 rebounds, and a career-high 10 assists in a 121–104 win over the Utah Jazz.[87][88] On March 9, Love, with a 3-pointer midway through the third quarter of Minnesota's 104–111 loss to the Raptors, broke the Timberwolves' franchise record for 3-pointers in a season. With that make (143), he passed Rashad McCants' record of 142 in the 2007–08 season.[89] On March 28, he recorded his second career triple double with 22 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists in a 143–107 win over the Los Angeles Lakers.[90] On April 2, 2014, Love recorded his third career triple double with 24 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists in a 102–88 win over the Memphis Grizzlies.[91] Love set an NBA record in 2013–14, becoming the first player in NBA history to record 2,000 points, 900 rebounds and 100 3-pointers in a single season.[92] He was named to the All-NBA Second Team for the second time in his career.[93][94]
Cleveland Cavaliers (2014–2023)
Big Three formation and first playoff (2014–2015)
On August 23, 2014, the Timberwolves traded Love to the Cleveland Cavaliers in a three-team trade. The Timberwolves received Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett from Cleveland, and Thaddeus Young from the Philadelphia 76ers, while the Philadelphia 76ers received Luc Mbah a Moute and Alexey Shved from Minnesota and a 2015 first-round draft pick from Cleveland.[95][96] On February 8, 2015, Love scored a season-high 32 points on 11-of-18 shooting in a 120–105 win over the Los Angeles Lakers.[97] On February 24, he scored 24 points on eight three-pointers, tying his career best, as he helped the Cavaliers defeat the Detroit Pistons, 102–93.[98]
Love helped the Cavaliers win 34 of their final 43 games to finish the regular season as the No. 2 seed in the Eastern Conference with a 53–29 overall record.[99] In his first career playoff game on April 19, Love recorded 19 points and 12 rebounds in a 113–100 win over the Boston Celtics in Game 1 of their first-round playoff match-up.[100] Cleveland swept the series 4–0, but Love missed the remainder of the playoffs after he dislocated his left shoulder in the first quarter of Game 4 when he got tangled with the Celtics' Kelly Olynyk while battling for a loose ball. Love called it a "bush-league play", while Olynyk said he would "never intentionally hurt someone."[101][102] The league ruled that Olynyk had "yanked Love's arm down", and suspended Olynyk for one game.[103] Love underwent surgery to repair his shoulder and the team said he would need four to six months to recover.[101] Without Love, the Cavaliers reached the 2015 NBA Finals but were defeated by the Golden State Warriors in six games. On June 24, 2015, Love opted out of the final year of his contract, worth $16.7 million in 2015–16, to return to free agency.[104]
NBA championship (2015–2016)
On July 9, 2015, Love re-signed with the Cavaliers.[105] On November 23, 2015, he scored 27 of his season-high 34 points in the first half of the Cavaliers' 117–103 win over the Orlando Magic.[106] On January 29, 2016, he had his best game since November 23, scoring 29 points on 9-of-19 shooting in a 114–106 win over the Detroit Pistons. That game also marked the first time all season that Love, LeBron James and Kyrie Irving each reached 20 points in a game.[107]
The Cavaliers finished the regular season as the first seed in the Eastern Conference with a 57–25 record. In the first round of the playoffs, the Cavaliers faced the eighth-seeded Detroit Pistons, and in a Game 1 win on April 17, Love recorded playoff career highs with 28 points and 13 rebounds.[108] Love helped the Cavaliers advance through to the Eastern Conference Finals where they faced the Toronto Raptors. He struggled in Games 3 and 4 of the series, scoring just 15 total points, before bouncing back in Games 5 and 6 to help the Cavaliers defeat the Raptors 4–2.[109] The win advanced them through to the NBA Finals, where they faced the defending champion Golden State Warriors. Love's struggles in the NBA Finals were well documented. After recording 17 points and 13 rebounds in a Game 1 loss, a concussion suffered in Game 2 forced him to miss Game 3. His return in Game 4 saw him come off the bench to score 11 points, but with a 108–97 loss, the Cavaliers fell behind 3–1 in the series. Game 5 saw Love return to the starting line-up, but despite playing 33 minutes, he managed just two points as the Cavaliers forced a Game 6 with a 112–97 win. Game 6 also saw Love struggle, but the Cavaliers managed a 115–101 win to force a Game 7. The Cavaliers won Games 5 and 6 with Love contributing just nine total points on 2-of-8 shooting.[110] With the series tied a 3–3, Love managed 9 points and 14 rebounds in Game 7 to help the Cavaliers win the series 4–3, as they became the first team to rally from a 3–1 finals deficit, beating the Warriors 93–89 in Game 7 to end a 52-year major sports championship drought in Cleveland.[111] Many credited Love's defense on league MVP Stephen Curry in the final minutes of Game 7 as a main contributor to Cleveland sealing the win late in the championship clinching victory.[112]
Coming up short (2016–2018)
On October 25, 2016, after receiving his first championship ring before the season opener, Love recorded 23 points and 12 rebounds in a 117–88 win over the New York Knicks.[113] On November 3, he scored a then season-high 26 points in a 128–122 win over the Boston Celtics, helping the Cavaliers go 5–0 for the first time since 1976–77 when they started 8–0.[114] On November 23, he scored 40 points, including an NBA-record 34 in the first quarter, to help the Cavaliers defeat the Portland Trail Blazers 137–125. His 34 first-quarter points were the second most all-time in a quarter; Klay Thompson of the Golden State Warriors set the record at 37 in the third quarter on January 23, 2015.[115] Five days later, he was named Eastern Conference Player of the Week for games played Monday, November 21 through Sunday, November 27. Love led the Cavaliers to a 3–0 week behind an East-leading 30.7 points per game.[116] On December 25, he scored 20 points in 109–108 win over the Warriors, recording his 10,000th career point in the process.[117]
On January 26, 2017, Love was named an Eastern Conference All-Star reserve for the 2017 NBA All-Star Game.[118] However, on February 14, 2017, he underwent arthroscopic surgery to remove a loose body from his left knee, and was subsequently ruled out for approximately six weeks, thus missing the All-Star Game.[119] On March 16, he played his first game for the Cavaliers since February 11 and had 10 points and nine rebounds in 19 minutes in a 91–83 win over the Utah Jazz.[120]
In Game 1 of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Boston Celtics on May 17, Love scored a playoff career-high 32 points and had 12 rebounds to help the Cavaliers improve to 9–0 in the first three rounds of the playoffs, defeating the Celtics 117–104.[121] With 15 points in Game 5 of the series, Love helped the Cavaliers defeat the Celtics 135–102 to claim their third straight Eastern Conference title and a return trip to the NBA Finals.[122] After going down 3–0 in the 2017 NBA Finals, Love made six 3-pointers and had 23 points in Game 4 to help Cleveland extend the series and avoid a sweep with a 137–116 win over the Warriors.[123] The Cavaliers went on to lose to the Warriors in Game 5, thus losing the series 4–1.[124][125]
In the Cavaliers' season opener on October 17, 2017, Love scored 15 points in a 102–99 win over the Boston Celtics. He hit a critical 3-pointer with 46.3 seconds left to put Cleveland up 102–98.[126] On November 7, 2017, he had a then season-best game with 32 points and 16 rebounds in a 124–119 win over the Milwaukee Bucks.[127] On November 28, 2017, he scored 32 of his 38 points in the first half of the Cavaliers' 108–97 win over the Miami Heat. He scored 22 points in the first quarter and finished 10 of 16 from the field and 14 of 17 on free throws.[128] On December 25, 2017, he had a game-high 31 points and a season-best 18 rebounds in a 99–92 loss to the Golden State Warriors.[129] On January 30, 2018, Love left the Cavaliers' game against the Detroit Pistons with a fracture in his left hand.[130] He missed six weeks and 21 games with the injury, returning to action on March 19 against the Bucks. He scored 18 points in 25 minutes in a 124–117 win.[131] Two days later, he recorded 23 points and 12 rebounds in a 132–129 win over the Toronto Raptors. He knocked down his 1,000th career 3-pointer during the game.[132] On April 1, 2018, he recorded his 400th career double-double with 13 points and 13 rebounds in a 98–87 win over the Dallas Mavericks.[133] In Game 2 of the Cavaliers' second-round playoff series against the Raptors, Love had his best game of the postseason with 31 points and 11 rebounds in a 128–110 win, helping Cleveland take a 2–0 lead in the series. Love missed matching his career playoff high by one point.[134] In Game 4 against Toronto, Love scored 23 points in a 128–93 series-clinching win. During the game, Love became the fourth player in Cleveland history with 500 career playoff rebounds, joining LeBron James, Tristan Thompson and Zydrunas Ilgauskas.[135] In Game 1 of the NBA Finals, Love recorded 21 points and 13 rebounds in a 124–114 overtime loss to the Warriors.[136] The Cavaliers went on to lose the series in four games.
Injury-plagued years (2018–2021)
In the aftermath of LeBron James' departure in free agency to the Los Angeles Lakers, the Cavaliers aggressively pushed to secure Love for the long term.[137] On July 24, 2018, Love signed a four-year, $120 million extension with the Cavaliers.[137][138] He appeared in the first four games of the regular season before being sidelined with an injured left foot.[139] On November 2, Love had surgery to rectify a painful big toe injury on his left foot.[140] The injury had bothered him since the preseason opener and affected his ability to walk.[141] He was initially ruled out for six weeks, but that was later pushed back to the new year.[141] Love returned to action on February 8, 2019, after missing 50 games. He started and played the first six minutes against the Washington Wizards, scoring four points, before not returning to the game.[142] On February 23, he scored a season-high 32 points in a 112–107 win over the Memphis Grizzlies.[143] For the season, Love attempted 6.7 three-point shots per game, accounting for 52% of his field-goal attempts.[6]
In 2019–20, Love clashed with new Cleveland head coach John Beilein, who was replaced mid-season by J. B. Bickerstaff. Love had five 30-point games during the season, finishing with averages of 17.6 points on 45% shooting and 37.4% from 3-point range while adding 9.8 rebounds and 3.2 assists.[144]
In the first preseason game of 2020–21, Love suffered a calf injury, which caused him to miss the regular season opener. He returned in the second game, but he reaggravated the injury in the third game and was expected to be sidelined 3–4 weeks.[145] On May 12, 2021, Love logged his fifth double-double of the season with a season-high 30 points and 14 rebounds in a 102–94 win over the Boston Celtics, ending the Cavaliers' 11-game losing streak.[146][147]
Sixth Man of the Year runner-up and buyout (2021–2023)
In 2021–22, Love became a reserve for the first time since early in his career.[148] Against the Atlanta Hawks on December 31, 2021, he had 35 points on 10-for-18 shooting, including a 7-for-14 on 3-pointers, for his highest-scoring game in over four seasons.[149] He was the runner-up for the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award after averaging 13.6 points, 7.2 rebounds and 2.2 assists.[150][151]
On February 18, 2023, Love and the Cavaliers officially agreed to a contract buyout, making him a free agent. He averaged 8.5 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 1.9 assists before the buyout with the team.[152]
Miami Heat (2023–present)
On February 20, 2023, Love signed with the Miami Heat.[153] On February 24, Love made his Heat debut going scoreless and putting up eight rebounds in a 128–99 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.[154] With the Heat, Love reached his fifth NBA Finals in just his fifth playoff run. However, the Heat went on to lose the Finals in 5 games to the Denver Nuggets.[155]
On July 6, 2023, Love re-signed with the Heat.[156]
National team career
Love was a member of the
Mired in unresolved trade talks between Minnesota and other NBA teams, Love withdrew himself from the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup (formerly World Championship) team.[158] He was also selected for the 2020 Olympic team in Tokyo, but withdrew after the third exhibition game, stating that he was not fully recovered from the right calf injury that sidelined him for much of the 2020–21 season.[159]
Career statistics
GP | Games played | GS | Games started | MPG | Minutes per game |
FG% | Field goal percentage | 3P% | 3-point field goal percentage | FT% | Free throw percentage |
RPG | Rebounds per game | APG | Assists per game | SPG | Steals per game |
BPG | Blocks per game | PPG | Points per game | Bold | Career high |
† | Won an NBA championship | * | Led the league |
NBA
Regular season
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2008–09 | Minnesota | 81 | 37 | 25.3 | .459 | .105 | .789 | 9.1 | 1.0 | .4 | .6 | 11.1 |
2009–10 | Minnesota | 60 | 22 | 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 | 18 | 18 | 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 | .8 | .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 | .8 | .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 | 22 | 21 | 27.2 | .385 | .361 | .904 | 10.9 | 2.2 | .3 | .2 | 17.0 |
2019–20 | Cleveland | 56 | 56 | 31.8 | .450 | .374 | .854 | 9.8 | 3.2 | .6 | .3 | 17.6 |
2020–21 | Cleveland | 25 | 25 | 24.9 | .409 | .365 | .824 | 7.4 | 2.5 | .6 | .1 | 12.2 |
2021–22 | Cleveland | 74 | 4 | 22.5 | .430 | .392 | .838 | 7.2 | 2.2 | .4 | .2 | 13.6 |
2022–23 | Cleveland | 41 | 3 | 20.0 | .389 | .354 | .889 | 6.8 | 1.9 | .2 | .2 | 8.5 |
Miami | 21 | 17 | 20.0 | .388 | .297 | .857 | 5.7 | 1.9 | .4 | .2 | 7.7 | |
2023–24 | Miami | 55 | 5 | 16.8 | .440 | .344 | .787 | 6.1 | 2.1 | .3 | .2 | 8.8 |
Career | 929 | 684 | 29.3 | .439 | .369 | .829 | 10.1 | 2.3 | .6 | .4 | 16.5 | |
All-Star | 3 | 1 | 21.0 | .500 | .364 | .286 | 6.7 | 1.3 | 1.3 | .0 | 10.7 |
Play-in
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2022 | Cleveland | 2 | 0 | 20.0 | .462 | .667 | .500 | 8.5 | .5 | 1.0 | .0 | 8.5 |
2023 | Miami | 2 | 0 | 7.0 | .500 | .200 | 1.000 | 2.0 | 1.0 | .5 | .0 | 5.5 |
2024 | Miami | 2 | 0 | 14.8 | .455 | .571 | 1.000 | 4.5 | .5 | .5 | .0 | 13.0 |
Career | 6 | 0 | 14.0 | .469 | .500 | .938 | 5.0 | .7 | .7 | .0 | 9.0 |
Playoffs
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2015 | Cleveland | 4 | 4 | 26.8 | .415 | .429 | .737 | 7.0 | 2.5 | .3 | .5 | 14.3 |
2016† | Cleveland | 20 | 19 | 30.6 | .385 | .414 | .840 | 8.8 | 2.1 | .5 | .4 | 14.7 |
2017 | Cleveland | 18 | 18 | 32.1 | .436 | .450 | .840 | 10.6 | 1.7 | 1.2 | .9 | 16.8 |
2018 | Cleveland | 21 | 21 | 31.4 | .392 | .340 | .922 | 10.2 | 1.6 | .7 | .4 | 14.9 |
2023 | Miami | 20 | 18 | 18.0 | .378 | .375 | .875 | 5.6 | 1.2 | .5 | .4 | 6.9 |
Career | 83 | 80 | 27.9 | .400 | .398 | .855 | 8.7 | 1.7 | .7 | .5 | 13.3 |
College
Year | Team | GP | GS | MPG | FG% | 3P% | FT% | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | PPG |
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2007–08 | UCLA | 39 | 38 | 29.6 | .559 | .354 | .767 | 10.6 | 1.9 | .7 | 1.4 | 17.5 |
Personal life
Love's uncle,
Love had been dating Canadian model Kate Bock for "nearly five years"[161][162] before getting engaged on January 31, 2021.[163] They married on June 25, 2022, at the New York Public Library in New York City.[164] In June 2023, Bock gave birth to the couple's first child, during the 2023 NBA Finals.[165]
In March 2018, in response to DeMar DeRozan's public discussion of his struggles with depression, Love revealed that he had been seeing a therapist for several months following a panic attack during a game in November 2017. In a first-person article in The Players' Tribune in March 2018 entitled, "Everyone Is Going Through Something", Love wrote: "Mental health is an invisible thing, but it touches all of us at some point or another."[166] It continued: "I want to remind you that you're not weird or different for sharing what you're going through."[166][167][168]
In August 2018, Love continued his advocacy for mental health awareness, discussing his family's history of depression, along with his own struggles with anxiety, rage, and "dark times" where he would hide in his room and not talk to anyone.[169] Love committed to forming a foundation focusing on mental health, particularly for young boys, adding that he believes he's "found [his] life's work."[170]
In 2023 Love announced his plan to return to Cleveland before retiring stating he is "definitely open to coming back and retiring" with the Cavaliers.[171]
Philanthropy
In 2009, Love became the first among NBA players to join the Hoops for St. Jude charity program benefitting the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, after working with the hospital as part of the league's "Rookie Relief" community outreach program in his first season in the league.[172]
In 2018, he established the Kevin Love Fund to provide tools and help for people to improve their physical and emotional well-being, with the goal of assisting more than 1 billion people over the next five years.[173] Early beneficiaries included two programs to empower high school students to make healthy choices and the UCLA Athletics Department. On March 12, 2020, Love's fund gave $100,000 to the support staff of Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, where the Cleveland Cavaliers play, who were unable to work during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.[174] He was joined by Cavaliers center Andre Drummond, who donated an additional $60,000.[175]
On April 26, 2020, The Kevin Love Fund sent a truckload of lunches to the staff of the Cleveland Clinic's Medical Intensive Care Unit and its COVID-19 testing sites, and appeared by FaceTime to personally thank the healthcare workers there.[176] On June 22, 2020, he announced that his fund was pledging $500,000, matched by the UCLA Centennial Term Chair Match, to establish the Kevin Love Fund Chair in UCLA's psychology department.[177] The $1 million investment will support a scholar at one of the top-ranked psychology departments in the United States whose work helps diagnose, prevent, treat and destigmatize anxiety and depression.
Separately, Love donated to UCLA Athletics what was reported by the
Endorsements and investments
In 2011, Love signed a 6-year endorsement contract with the Chinese shoe company 361 Degrees.[179]
In 2012, Love became an investor in the lifestyle website 12Society.[180]
In 2016, Love became the new style ambassador and campaign model for Banana Republic.[181]
Media appearances
On a video game, Love appeared on the front cover of NCAA Basketball 09 in 2009.[182]
On television, he appeared as himself on the
On film, he was one of the stars in the feature length, 2008 documentary Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot.[185] And he was also in the short 2012 documentary My Life As An NBA Rookie.[186]
Online, he was part of an internet advertising campaign in 2012 by PepsiCo for Pepsi Max that featured the character "Uncle Drew" played by Love's future NBA teammate Kyrie Irving. It was wildly popular, and reported to be the second most watched ad on YouTube that year and among the 50 most-viewed viral videos worldwide, garnering more than 22 million views.[187] PepsiCo and its advertising agency Davie Brown Entertainment quickly rolled out another commercial later that year, "Uncle Drew: Chapter 2", this time co-starring Kevin Love.[188] These and two more commercials led to the theatrical movie Uncle Drew in 2018 (Love was not part of that production).
Awards and honors
NBA
- 5× NBA All-Star
- 2× )
- 2016 NBA Championship (as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers)
USA Basketball
- 2010 FIBA World Championship
- 2012 Olympic gold medal
NCAA
- 2008 First Team All-American
- 2008 Pac-10 Player of the Year
- UCLA Hall of Fame(class of 2020)
High School
- 2006 Oregon State Championship (with Lake Oswego)
- 2007 Naismith Prep Player of the Year Award
ESPY Awards
- 2016 Best Team (as a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers)
- 2020 Arthur Ashe Courage Award
Local
- 2021 Greater Cleveland Sports Awards - Humanitarian of the Year[189]
See also
- List of NBA career 3-point scoring leaders
- List of NBA annual rebounding leaders
- List of NBA single-season rebounding leaders
- List of NBA single-game rebounding leaders
- List of second-generation National Basketball Association players
- 2006 high school boys basketball All-Americans
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External links
- Career statistics and player information from NBA.com and Basketball-Reference.com
- Archived personal website (2014)
- UCLA Bruins bio
- Kevin Love Fund