Kevin Wesley Love was born on September 7,1988 and is an American professional basketball player for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association.
69 Facts About Kevin Love
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Kevin Love is a five-time All-Star and a two-time member of the All-NBA Second Team and won an NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016.
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Kevin Love was a member of the gold medal-winning United States national team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship and the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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In 2011, Love won the NBA Most Improved Player Award and led the league in rebounding.
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The son of former NBA player Stan Kevin Love, Kevin Love was a top-ranked prospect out of Lake Oswego High School in Oregon.
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Kevin Love played one season of college basketball for the UCLA Bruins and led the team to a Final Four appearance in the 2008 NCAA Tournament.
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Kevin Love was named a consensus First Team All-American and was voted player of the year in the Pac-12 Conference.
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Kevin Love elected to forgo his remaining three years of college eligibility and entered the 2008 NBA draft.
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However, reduced playing time the following season led Kevin Love to reach a contract buyout agreement with the Cavaliers.
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Kevin Love was born on September 7,1988, in Santa Monica, California, the second of three children to Karen and Stan Kevin Love.
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Kevin Love grew up in Lake Oswego, Oregon, where he was childhood friends and Little League teammates with fellow future NBA star Klay Thompson.
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Kevin Love played basketball from his earliest days; as a child, he would practice his bounce passes with a cardboard box and study tapes of Wes Unseld.
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Kevin Love's father Stan, a former NBA big man who was an adept shooter, had his son develop his outside shooting and ballhandling skills.
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Kevin Love played high school basketball for the Lake Oswego Lakers.
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Kevin Love finished his high school career as the all-time leading scorer in Oregon boys' basketball history, with 2,628 points.
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In July 2006, Kevin Love verbally committed to play college basketball at UCLA.
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Later, Kevin Love guided UCLA to the regular season Pac-10 conference championship, the conference tournament championship, and a No 1 seed in the 2008 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.
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Kevin Love helped the Bruins to the Final Four of the tournament, where they lost to the Memphis Tigers, whose season and tournament appearance, in turn, were later vacated.
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Kevin Love led the Bruins with 17.5 ppg, 10.6 rpg, and 23 double-doubles.
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Kevin Love was taken fifth overall by the Memphis Grizzlies, immediately after his teammate at UCLA, Russell Westbrook, who was selected by the Seattle SuperSonics.
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Kevin Love went on to play in the 2008 NBA Summer League and led all players in rebounding.
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Timberwolves general manager Kevin Love McHale assumed duties as head coach and they developed a close relationship.
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Kevin Love was not selected to the NBA All-Star Weekend Rookie Challenge, to the surprise of his teammates and coaches.
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Kevin Love finished the season ninth in the league in rebounding, first among rookies, and ranked third in total offensive rebounds.
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Kevin Love led all first-years with 29 double-doubles, the most by a Timberwolves rookie in franchise history.
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Kevin Love was named to the 2009 NBA All-Rookie Second Team and finished sixth in Rookie of the Year voting.
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Kevin Love began the season on the injured list when, in a pre-season game on October 16,2009 against the Chicago Bulls, he broke the fourth metacarpal in his left hand by banging it against the elbow of teammate Oleksiy Pecherov.
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Kevin Love was selected to play in NBA All-Star Weekend Rookie Challenge.
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Kevin Love finished the season ranked as the NBA's best rebounder per 48 minutes, besting Dwight Howard and Marcus Camby.
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Kevin Love attempted nearly two three-point field goals per game, which accounted for 16 percent of his overall field goal attempts, an increase over his rookie rate of 3 percent.
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On February 4,2011, Kevin Love was selected by Commissioner David Stern to his first NBA All-Star Game as replacement for the injured Yao Ming.
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Kevin Love missed the final six games and nine of the last 11 games of the season due to the injury.
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Kevin Love won the NBA Most Improved Player Award after increasing his points per game by 44 percent and his rebounds per game by 38 percent over his previous season.
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Kevin Love emerged as the new face of the franchise since Garnett was traded from the Timberwolves to the Boston Celtics in 2007.
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Kevin Love had stated that he wanted to be the Timberwolves' "designated player" for a five-year deal during the offseason, but he was denied this contract by the Timberwolves.
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Kevin Love has stated that he felt very strongly that he should have had a five-year designated player extension, and would have accepted the offer, had it been offered to him.
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Kevin Love followed up this new contract extension the subsequent night with a 31-point performance in a win over the Dallas Mavericks.
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In January 2012, Kevin Love scored 30 points in three consecutive games for the first time in his career.
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Kevin Love played 35 minutes and scored 34 points while grabbing 14 rebounds against the Denver Nuggets.
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On January 3,2013, Kevin Love refractured his shooting hand in a game against the Denver Nuggets.
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Kevin Love was named to the All-NBA Second Team for the second time in his career.
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Kevin Love underwent surgery to repair his shoulder and the team said he would need four to six months to recover.
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Kevin Love helped the Cavaliers advance through to the Eastern Conference Finals where they faced the Toronto Raptors.
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The Cavaliers won Games 5 and 6 with Kevin Love contributing just nine total points on 2-of-8 shooting.
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On January 26,2017, Kevin Love was named an Eastern Conference All-Star reserve for the 2017 NBA All-Star Game.
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Kevin Love scored 22 points in the first quarter and finished 10 of 16 from the field and 14 of 17 on free throws.
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On January 30,2018, Kevin Love left the Cavaliers' game against the Detroit Pistons with a fracture in his left hand.
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Kevin Love knocked down his 1,000th career 3-pointer during the game.
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Kevin Love missed matching his career playoff high by one point.
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On July 24,2018, Kevin Love signed a four-year, $120 million extension with the Cavaliers.
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Kevin Love appeared in the first four games of the regular season before being sidelined with an injured left foot.
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Kevin Love was initially ruled out for six weeks, but that was later pushed back to the new year.
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Kevin Love returned to action on February 8,2019, after missing 50 games.
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Kevin Love started and played the first six minutes against the Washington Wizards, scoring four points, before not returning to the game.
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Kevin Love 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.
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Kevin Love averaged 8.5 points, 6.8 rebounds, and 1.9 assists before the buyout with the team.
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On February 20,2023, Kevin Love signed with the Miami Heat.
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Kevin Love was a member of the United States national team that won the gold medal at the 2010 FIBA World Championship.
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Kevin Love's uncle, Mike, is a founding member of The Beach Boys and brother of Kevin Love's father, Stan.
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Kevin Love has an older brother, Collin, and a younger sister, Emily.
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Kevin Love had been dating Canadian model Kate Bock for "nearly five years" before getting engaged on January 31,2021.
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In March 2018, in response to DeMar DeRozan's public discussion of his struggles with depression, Kevin Love revealed that he had been seeing a therapist for several months following a panic attack during a game in November 2017.
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In 2009, Kevin 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.
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On March 12,2020, Kevin 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.
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Kevin Love was joined by Cavaliers center Andre Drummond, who donated an additional $60,000.
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In 2011, Kevin Love signed a 6-year endorsement contract with the Chinese shoe company 361 Degrees.
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In 2012, Kevin Love became an investor in the lifestyle website 12Society.
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In 2016, Kevin Love became the new style ambassador and campaign model for Banana Republic.
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Kevin Love appeared in the HBO television series Entourage in its seventh-season finale "Lose Yourself".