Cleveland Cavaliers lose 0-1 in the NBA Finals with the Golden State Warriors and after renewal is down Kyrie'emu Irving before them extremely difficult challenge. However, they can avoid pozaboiskowych controversy. Got injured Kevin Love after the game No. 1 confessed that he wants to stay in Cleveland. Internet silent.
- I never wanted to play more than a match which was watched - said Love after losing Cavaliers in overtime 100: 108.
- Yes. I want to win - said Love when he was Enquiries by Ramona Shelburne of ESPN about whether his words mean that next season he wants to stay in Cleveland.
The third scorer and best rebounder Cavs suffered a shoulder injury in the first round of the playoffs. He underwent surgery and since then can not play.
Love went to Cleveland before the season in an exchange with the Minnesota Timberwolves. From the very moment in which he appeared, with him also they appeared doubts as to whether it will in Cleveland for a long time. Love has an option in the contract for the season 2015/16 and may withdraw from it. He could then in July to leave the Cleveland Cavaliers or sign with a new, five-year contract. Officially still has not decided what to do. It has until the end of June to decide whether to use the option in the contract.
Therefore, to what to do for a few months, accompanied by all sorts of reports. US media outdo one another in suggesting that Love is not happy in Cleveland. There were reports that it is interested in playing the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics. These regarding Boston pulled after the Celtics as a player Kelly Olynyk led to Love's injury.
But these reports of dissatisfaction Love'a have their own causes. First of all, Love is a white player in the locker room Cavaliers dominated by black athletes who judging by the clips published by them on Instagramie, firmly they stick together. Even on the other side of the Atlantic - from the place where I'm sitting - you can see that the main group formed in Cleveland LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, Tristan Thompson, Iman Shumpert and JR Smith. Love is on the way.
After the second - or first - when you hit the Cleveland Love passed a similar path traveled by Chris Bosh, when in 2010 created the James and Dwyane Wade "Big Three" in the Miami Heat. Bosh of the Toronto Raptors leadership, has become something of player type of task. With James and Wade next gave less throws and his role in the attack was much smaller.
Identical was the LoveMe. In the 2013/14 regular season averaged 26.1 points for the Minnesota Timberwolves. In the season 2014/15 only 16.4 points for Cleveland. Love gave as much as 5.8 throws less on average per game playing only two minutes shorter. However, the threat they pose throw for three of the power forward position opened up in shares of pick-and-roll your way to the trash James and Irving. In a very similar role functioning Bosh common in the last two seasons with James in Miami.
In the second half of the season the trio Irving-James-Love complement very well. Love was even the leader of Cleveland in plus / minus, counting from 1 February until the end of the regular season. His skills have not been used fully, but it usually is when NBA stars playing together, they have to sacrifice something for the good of the team. It always will be around this controversy and speculation.
For what would be the internet without the rumors that encourage fans to speculate? It is no coincidence that the most interesting period is the NBA season, when ... the NBA is not playing. So the end of June and July - the re-opening of the transfer window and the time of signing contracts with free agents. It is no coincidence that the contracts in the NBA are getting shorter. NBA authorities know very well what the "winds" fans - transfers, speculation.
Meanwhile, Love said he still January 24, when the Cavaliers started to play better (they started the season 19-20 and then won 34 of the last 43 matches), he was not going to move out.
- It seems to me that we will play better, so do not plan to deviate from the contract. I plan to be here. Of course, my options are open, of course. At the end of the day it is always good to have some options, but I plan to be here in Cleveland.
And not everybody believed him. Even joked that Love should start his speech from "According to my sources, I plan to stay in Cleveland."
Because after this statement the rumors are back and, of course, they were quoted source. Here are a few examples.
- All the managers I talk to everyone closely associated with the league, every girl cousin sister's boyfriend, they expect that Kevin Love is gone from Cleveland - said in April Brian Windhorst of ESPN.
- Kevin Love and Rajon Rondo will be played in the Lakers - said Jalen Rose, former basketball player, currently leading a very popular podcast on the website Grantland.
- Sources tell me that they love very seriously considering withdrawing from the contract and play in the Lakers - wrote Sam Smith of Bulls.com.
- Throughout the season, league sources say that one club has more and better chances in the fight for Love's. It's Boston Celtics - this in turn wrote in April by Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports.
- Kevin Love is considering options in the free-agent market that will appear in July.
The latter did not write just one particular, because he could write every one of us. This is probably true. As he said in January Love - good to have options. Love certainly thinks about her future, because it's his future and you can not be one hundred percent sure that he would be in Cleveland. Even when he says things like last week, he talked with Dave McMenamin of ESPN.
- Honestly, it's still about that I never really imagined, but as I said, I'm going to be next season in a tracksuit score sheet for the match No. 1.
- In tracksuit Cavaliers?
- Yes.
A friend journalist asked me a few days ago "And what he had to say? But he could not say I did not want to play in the Cavaliers'. He might, he could not, but the NBA basketball players or athletes in general, for the most part already mastered the art of speaking so as not to say anything. So just answer evasively - "At this moment I am focused on playing for our team and this season. We'll see afterwards." Love is not the first basketball player in history, which can in July to become the NBA free agent. It is, moreover Love spent the previous season in Minnesota, avoiding like the plague response to whether he wants to leave the Timberwolves, before it became clear after the season and before the semi-official began to demand a transfer.
I wonder how Love's latest quote could be interpreted in such a way that you can still think about it, that maybe want to leave.
Or maybe you just lying?
If so, then lie and go away. Rumors will instead appear as popping up so far and will them to live as we lived. Although we may be a little wiser after this situation. I have bad associations, when observe how the players appear around different kinds of reports, and then they try to speak as it actually is. Only that their voice did not came through to public opinion - "basketball players are playing, not from speaking." More important are the "sources" than what he says basketball player. I understand that athletes can say one thing and think another, but it may be better not to assume in advance that it does not tell the truth?
The mysterious "sources" but they know better what they do. They know before they think about it. It's no wonder that such a website was created as "The Players Tribune", where players are free to write about what they think, bypassing the media. It's no wonder that athletes fell in love with Twitter. It's no wonder that many athletes do not like shuns the media and journalists. Especially at a time when flashy title counts and better selling negative information than positive ones.
I have the impression that this is slowly changing and moving toward normalcy. Slowly. Not only in the NBA. Sources say that period.
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