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If James picks the Heat, there has been talk that Kevin Love could return to Miami. That certainly cannot be ruled out, but isn’t something Miami has pursued to this point.
On an overcast Thursday morning at a Lake Oswego storefront hidden away in an alley, NBA champion Kevin Love, towering over everyone at 6 feet, 10 inches, was preparing to open the doors of his new store for the first time. Aptly called The Alley, this new store is a Topps Authorized Direct Partner and sells trading cards, carrying everything from packs of Pokémon cards to a special, mint condition shiny Michael Jordan card that’ll set you back $375.
The Alley is at 435 Second St. in Lake Oswego. The space is 2,100 square feet. The initial lease they signed can be as long as six years. “You’re getting a new series of demographic and generations of collectors, which makes it a fun space,” Kevin said.
ESPN Cleveland: “I wouldn’t be surprised if Kevin Love is considered as a plus 1 to any team that acquires LeBron James,” - @JakeLFischer. (Via @BleacherReport)
Tristan Thompson: "I got to give a big shout out to Kevin Love. Kevin Love put it together. If you had to look at your bingo card and guess who would put it together back then, you would have said Kevin Love. Kevin Love has been in Miami. He has been taking that leadership role and he has done the group chat. So I am like, shout out to Kevin Love for doing it. He put his mind to it, got his team together, and we all showed up. It was amazing."
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Tristan Thompson: "The reality is this, David Blatt got hired to coach myself, Kyrie Irving, Dion Waiters, Tyler Zeller. He got hired before LeBron James signed back. So he got hired to help this young Cavs team mature to be a playoff team. He didn't get hired for LeBron James and Kevin Love to come in, you know, come be contenders. But the Cavs did a good job because they know David Blatt's coming from EuroLeague and he had multiple EuroLeague. So, you bring Tyronn Lue in and I think they the Cavs knew also like, hey, we got David Blatt who has this great potential but then we also have this young whip snapper Tyronn Lue where if things don't go right with Blatt and if we do get a superstar like the LeBron and James to come, we got someone that has credibility with LeBron James, that can kind of like make LeBron James feel comfortable."
Hosted by LeBron James, the luxury multi-country vacation featured core members of the historic 2015–16 roster, including Kevin Love, J.R. Smith, Richard Jefferson, Channing Frye, and Tristan Thompson, with Iman Shumpert and Matthew Dellavedova joining the group later. Despite playing in 13 games during that legendary postseason run, the 39-year-old Russian big was completely omitted from the planning. Speaking with the Russian outlet Sport Express on Friday, Timofey Mozgov revealed that nobody from the title-winning squad text messaged or called him to join the summer trip. “Yes, I saw the video of that party. No one wrote or called me. If I’d been invited, I’d have gladly joined. Of course, I’d have loved to be there too, to drink some wine,” he answered when asked if an invitation had been extended.
Richard Jefferson on thhe group chat dynamics of the 2016 Cavs: "When we talk about the group chat from the team, there's like six of us, and it's been the same six. There was the full team group chat, then there was the guys that were J.R., Swish, Tristan, Kevin, Channing, and Bron. So that's the group of us. And then we start doing, hey guys, we should get together, do some golf and go do this, and then a conversation kind of got started is, and like, hey, it would be wrong if we didn't invite some of the other guys because it's going to look like, we're calling it this championship. No, it was the group chat from the championship team, not the championship team group chat."
In a joint Instagram post Wednesday between James, Smith, Thompson and Frye, the caption read: "The group chat finally linked up." Another joint post between Jefferson, Love, Thompson and Frye included a video of Thompson delivering drinks to the group on the course, captioned: "We all have roles."
NBA on ESPN: "I'm hearing that [LeBron's] likely coming back [to the Lakers]. ... Kevin Love could likely be joining the Lakers too." @MarcJSpears gives some insight on what could be next for LeBron 🏀
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Kevin Love: "I came in and thought I'll probably be the third guy, but I'm still going to be able to put up my fair share of numbers and play my game. With those two, one guy who's a freight train in LeBron James, another who is a magician with the basketball, the thing that I had to do in order for that team to thrive was space the floor."
So at the time, there was no player more feared than Curry. And unfortunately for the Cavs, no player on their roster was less equipped to defend him one-on-one than Love. He actually doesn't remember how he managed to stay in front of the Warriors' superstar; it only matters that he did. "I tell people all the time, one, I blacked out," Love said in a talk with his fellow 2016 champion, Richard Jefferson. "You know how many times we actually went over this play? We were switching one through five. Here comes the pin-down action. Switch over on Draymond. Switch on Steph. Then watch. Steph gives up the ball. I'm supposed to deny," he added.
