bleedspeed177 wrote:TheSP wrote:I despise Love, so I want the Cave to win! Sounds odd, but if Love never gets another ring he'll have to live with the fact he did almost nothing to earn it! He may have been on of the most talented players on the team, but he was far from being one of the most valuable.
I think he would be fine with it honestly. A lot like his Gold Medal.
With his ego it would absolutely eat away at him. To know that the only ring he won in his career (hopefully) came from a year in which he could neither fit in, nor "fit out" with the rest of his team, to know his back up was far more effective as a cog in the wheel, and to know he never played after the first round of the playoffs. Combine all that with the very real likelihood that he'll be remembered as much for what he accomplished as a player as he will be for having been the player traded for a future all time great in Wiggins.
Seriously, think ten years down the line when the water cooler talk about all time great NBA PFs goes something like this when Love's name comes up: "Yeah, he put up great numbers on bad teams, was never the man that put his team over the top, won a ring but didn't really contribute much all season long and almost not at all in the playoffs, and was traded for a group of players, one of which proved to be the best player in the trade and it's not even close. Love was a great individual talent in a team sport, never a great cog in a contending teams wheel!"
Yes, his arrogance will likely delude him into thinking none of that was his fault, but it won't change the fact that he'd be an afterthought when talking about the greats!
