Kevin Love Demanding a Contract Extension By January 15th?

You want Kevin Love grabbing rebounds?
Eff you, pay me.
You want him throwing outlet passes?
Eff you, pay me.
You need a white superstar to appeal to your mostly white fan base?
Eff you, pay me.
And then, when you can’t sign any free agents because you don’t have cap space, and you’ve traded away all your good draft picks, what do you do? You strike a match.

LOLOLOLOL^^^

It’ll be interesting to see how many of their guys Minny can afford in 2 years…

It’s a rap reference homie.
You wouldn’t understand.

Long before In My Lifetime, it was a scene in Goodfellas.

They should turn Williams and picks into a quality defensive center and then build around Beasley, Rubio and Love because they just can’t afford all of these young guys down the line and they have a logjam at wing.

I don’t think it’s as simple as “is he a franchise player or not”. In the end, does it help or hinder your plan of (presumably) contending for a championship? I may pay a non-franchise player max money if I can add him to an already established core including one franchise player. Example: in Memphis, Pau Gasol’s huge salary had become a liability. On the Lakers, it’s just money well spent. And the Wolves are a lot closer to that Grizzlies team than the Lakers.

@Allenp, Watched goodfellas yesterday homie, great movie.

Haha, my bad Allen. I’m far too white myself.

I’m not allowed to speak on what’s racist and what’s not on here…

I think their point the other day was that we can’t tell other folks what to get offended by, and I tend to agree. I didn’t find any comment about K-Love’s race racist but if someone else does, that’s his/her right.

Its a tough decision for Minny, the way the lux tax will be set up going forward, it will be very hard for teams to afford multiple max guys. What is the maximum outcome with Love as your best player? Then again, free agents will never sign to Minny so perhaos it’s best to overpay for Love.

Oh it is obviously going to happen. And it is not a dumb move. My point was that there is now way Love takes less to protect cap flexibility. Which Myles thought was possible.

Minny can just wait & match offers. Sorry, kid. You’re under contract. It’s not like you’ve carried that team to even 30 wins over the past few years.

The kid can play, but is he a franchise player? I dunno. Minny has been a TURRUBLE shooting team over the past few years, so there are a ton of boards available. They don’t exactly tear it up on D either, so Love is able to roam for rebounds. He’s a solid shooter, but not lights out for a 6’10″ dude.

Shutup: Totally agree, Rodman was a beast on isolation defense, whether it be the shooting guard or the center. But a great team defender he simply didn’t want to be.

i slightly disagree with you, when you can negate the other teams best bigman, like what he did to Robinson and Malone, he still helped his team defensively by sending the ball away from the other teams first option, and he was great at drawing offensive fouls ; couple that with stopping the other teams best rebounder and his nose for the ball it all lends itself to him helping his team defensively and thus making him a good team defender. Now if you define that term by blocking shots then no he wouldnt fit that title, but he like i said he clogged the lane and caused havoc, he could also defend the pick and roll extremely well. Also when he played zones werent allowed, the game was driven on man to man defense.

not at all, just dont agree with all the hype and I truly believe that the NBA pushes or tries to highlight its white players, so the avg middle class fan can identify with them. and rubio is ok, he can be great, but its to early to tell, hes had good games so far, nothing truly mind blowing, he can easily go the route of ed cota, erick barkley, telfair and countless other pgs that came into the league with a bunch of hype and ended up disappointing. and before you go off the i hate white people tangent, i am a gasol fan since he dunked on kg way back in his rookie year, i almost bought his jersey the unis were sick so i ended up buying the official shorts the black with that blue/green and weird red, from the nba store on 5th ave for like $125.

By the time Rubio is eligible for a Max contract, Kevin Love’s max deal will be over.

Rubio will never be a max player, good? probably, but unless the whole country of spain votes for him I dont see him making an allstar game in his future either. Oh and if they dont pay Love, someone else will, if you guys havent noticed their is a severe lack of big men in the league nowadays, otherwise how would explain Chris Kaman making an allstar team?

Auto correct sucks. NBK hates Monta I like dude.

@ shutup -> I would say RR has always played against people more athletically gifted than him (when he was 14 and debuted in the Spanish league, and unless he’s a freak of nature, Rubio at 14 must surely have been weaker and slower than any decent 20something guard). So when people were saying that he’d be toast in the NBA because of the athletic players there, maybe people did not count with the fact that he’s been routinely playing against stronger and more experienced players since he was in middle school. For me it’s kind of bizarre that you talk of him as only hype and unproven, because he’s already played at the highest level. Perhaps he does not improve further and ends up being mediocre, but as things are, I’d say that he’s also got some chances to be better than he is. I am not sure about all star, given the hordes of PGs turning up in the drafts. I think that he’s very marketeable, perhaps sadly because he’s white as you pointed out, and also because of the international markets. Let’s see, I’d be very happy if he became an all-star some day, I don’t think it’s impossible but it ain’t easy.