Kevin Love has aggravated his shoulder in the celebrations after the Eastern Conference Championship win over the Atlanta Hawks in 4 games. They now face the Golden State Warriors and despite the fact that aggravating his shoulder is really bad news for the Cavaliers, he wasn’t going to play in the NBA Finals at all anyways. Love’s shoulder will leave him out until probably the first day of training camp, and that is where he will have to build himself back up to become a relevant person for whichever team gets him in the free agency summer he is about to have.
According to Cleveland.com:
“I walk out there, the teammate will remain nameless, I go up and give him a big hug [and I said] ‘congratulations’ and he takes his arm and he goes, ‘Ah yeah man, good game’ and just hits me right on the arm,” Love playfully explained. “Some of the front office staff who was out there with me kind of had to grab me and said, ‘Are you OK?’”
“I had one of those moments where I was like, ‘Oh man, I’m going to have to go back to the locker room. How is that going to look? Will I have to have to sit down?’ So I just tried to take a deep breath, calm myself and got home and iced as quickly as [possible],” Love said.
“It was one of those deals where it was kind of shooting pain through my entire body, but I was a little woozy and kind of all over the place for a few minutes but I was able to calm myself down,” Love said.
Love has mentioned that he wants to stay a Cavalier so that means that he has regained the trust of LeBron James and the Cavaliers fan base. Really not a good sign if he aggravated it but he did say he was fine. NBA Finals on Thursday.
