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(VIDEO) Kevin Love Talks Championship, Working Out In Utah, His Shoulder, And Paddleboarding

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Hey Kev, how was Utah and training at 7,000 feet above sea level? Did you learn anything cool?

Kev: Yeah, watch this.

This video trailer comes via The Players Tribune and chronicles Kevin Love’s summer of training and rehabbing his shoulder. The full video gets released tomorrow (which we’ll post here as well) and seems like it’ll must-see TV.

Like I’ve said before, the things I find most interesting about sports are the behind the scenes stuff. I want to see the locker room speeches, hear the players mic’ed up on the sidelines, or see the players practicing or working out. The games are obviously the best part, but I’m particularly drawn to what happens when the games aren’t going on.

“Moving forward, I think everybody on our team 1-15, 1-14, 1-13… we feel like we have unfinished business and that’s to win a championship and hoist the Larry O’Brien trophy”

I just got irrationally excited for this Cavs season.

PS- Look at my man here repping 70s like it ain’t no thing. I see you, Kev.

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PPS- Just ordered 5 cases of chocolate milk

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UPDATE: Here’s Episode 2. Kevin goes hiking!

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Kevin Love is sporting an afro at Cavs media day

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The Indians are down to a .6% chance of making the playoffs. The Browns have gone 1-2 through the “easy” part of their schedule to start the year. This media day was one giant glimmer of light in an otherwise desolate Cleveland sports landscape. The wine and gold boys were finally getting back together after a long summer. It’s a day to take pictures, look good and spit some one-liners into a microphone.

“Kevin will take questions now. Yes, man in the back who’s clearly been crying?”

“Hi Kevin. Ai, Bottlegate dot com. Why?”

Have we not suffered enough? Our baseball team was supposed to be good, they ended up stinking, our football team was supposed to stink and has stunk, and our best looking athlete in Cleveland shows up to media day looking like Superbad Jonah Hill. Mother.

It wasn’t all bad cosmetological news out of Independence today though. The King’s hairline is back. Like, really back.

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NBA Live 16 demo features 75 foot free throws from Kevin Love

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(Video doesn’t show the end result of the heave but we all know that was buckets)

Woooo! EA Sports really putting the old “no such thing as bad publicity” adage to the test here. Yes I know it’s a demo, the product is unfinished, yada yada yada. That gives you some wiggle room if someone steps out of bounds and it isn’t called, or if a player slides through another on a pick, or if Dion Waters passes the ball. Those are excusable for a basketball video game demo. But short of having the actual basketball missing, a player shooting at the wrong hoop on a FREE THROW is just about as bad as it gets. I was watching a re-run of that Rachel Ray cooking show last night that pits 12-year-old chefs against each other. A twelve year old kid was making rice. It came out too sticky. So he didn’t serve it. A twelve year old knew not to put out a product if it wasn’t up to par.

Free throw development team. One job guys. One job.

“Alright guys…today’s the day. Everyone go through your code. Should we have the only player doing anything at all in this particular moment of the game shoot at hoop 1 or hoop 2?”

“Let’s try……hoop…2?”

“F***.”

This isn’t even close to the only problem people are seeing with the NBA Live demo either. Check out these headshots….

There’s a ton more in this story from the Sporting News. Now I know player likenesses are never perfect. This is a video game after all. But I think maybe hair color and race are realistic goals for NBA Live 17. Shoot for the moon, EA.

Loose ball! JR Smith grabs it….

That’s…..well that’s actually pretty spot-on.