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A two-time all-star, Love won a gold medal in the 2012 Olympics. Welcome to SportsNation! On Monday, we'll have Minnesota Timberwolves power forward Kevin Love stopping by to chat about the NBA Finals. Injuries limited Love to a career-low 18 g...

Kevin Love said Thursday in an interview with ESPN's "SportsCenter" that he's "absolutely" past any negativity he felt toward the Minnesota Timberwolves and is confident in the team's future under new president of basketball operations Flip Saunders.

• Timberwolves F Kevin Love tells Golic and Ryan Ruocco about the NBA Finals, the usage of performance-enhancing drugs in sports, his health, Minnesota's disappointing season, what growing up around the Beach Boys was like and more. Love -NBA...

Golic and Ryan Ruocco will be joined by two-time NBA All-Star Kevin Love for all four hours. The guys welcome ESPN NBA analyst Jeff Van Gundy (7:15 a.m. ET), ESPN.com's Michael Wallace (7:45), Warriors G Jarrett Jack (9:00), Timberwolves president of...

Our panel breaks down ESPN.com's latest edition of the NBA Future Power Rankings.

You know how at the beginning of every NFL season, everyone is 0-0 and has a chance at the Super Bowl? That is not true in the NBA. For fans of five to 10 teams every year, the NBA draft lottery is the Super Bowl. No other sport decides its future...

Amin Elhassan breaks down the Minnesota Timberwolves draft profile, needs and potential 2013 picks.

Story | Conversation | May 22, 2013

CHICAGO -- In the midst of the Chicago Bulls' preparations for Game 3 against the Brooklyn Nets on Thursday, Grantland's Bill Simmons offered up a reminder that no matter what happens over the next few weeks, the Bulls always must keep an eye on the ...

The NBA playoffs are upon us, with 16 teams competing for the Larry O'Brien Trophy. But what about the other guys? What about the teams we wish were in the playoffs? We may know, in our heads, that they didn't do enough to get into the postseason, bu...

Brian McKitish provides his initial 2013-14 season rankings, as well as thoughts on players ready to take their game to another level.

Just when Kevin Love was getting ready to try to salvage something positive from a lost seasons, one more injury cropped up to end it all.

Amin Elhassan offers four lottery-bound teams that are best set up for the 2013-14 season.

Story | Conversation | April 12, 2013

A season that never really started for Kevin Love is now officially over.

ATLANTA -- Musings on a national title Monday: • Michigan's Mitch McGary is Kevin Love light. McGary is just scratching the surface of what he could become relatively quickly. I keep going back to a shootaround I witnessed at Minnesota when the...

ESPN.com NBA Player Rankings: 26-30

Dear Kobe Bryant, In the middle of a playoff chase that has you clinging tenaciously to the no. 8 seed and yapping about how you have to take more control of the team's defensive strategy, why are you doing this? In the 71st game of your 17...