The Case for Minnesota Timberwolves Trading Kevin Love

January 14th, 2014 by Zach Buckley Leave a reply »

The corner the Minnesota Timberwolves find themselves in is starting to show signs of its heavy traffic.

This is life for the NBA's small-market teams. Those lucky enough to employ a superstar have a finite period of time to enjoy that talent. Nothing short of a championship can widen that window.

For the Wolves and their homegrown star, Kevin Love, there is no path to the podium up ahead. Nothing more than the broken dreams and false hopes that have come to define his career as much as his overstuffed stat sheets.

 

Love Can't Win in Minnesota

There's something to be said for the fact that his competitive fire is still burning.

He's grown up in a culture of losing. The Wolves were trapped in a four-year playoff drought before his arrival. Since he joined the ranks in 2008, Minnesota is just 131-300.

He's starved for success and told Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports last season his hunger could impact his approach to free agency:

I haven't been in the playoffs yet. I'm looking at my contract in the eye of two years from now, and if I haven't been to ...

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