Even though his comments suggest he wanted a 5-year deal and he seems a little dis-appointed, Wouldn’t he have refused to sign if he was truly upset? The gap between “not happy” and “locked down” is 1 year?

I think it’s objectively smart not to cater to the first great player since Garnett left when they potentially have 2 more “superstars” who were drafted the same or higher than Love.

Kevin is a perennial all-star and championship piece, but Rubio has more upside for marketing internationally and locally, besides being a play-making point guard who could enter top 5 territory.

(I apologize for my earlier name-calling)

Minnesota got Love to agree to a great contract for both sides. If Love wanted to leave, he wouldn’t have signed the deal. So what’s the point in getting worked up over an option to leave 3 years down the road when he just passed on such an option right now? Love wanted to stay, and now Minnesota can throw 5 years with max pay at another superstar who might be more tempted to flee.

If the Timberwolves are not competitive after 4 years, what does a 5th year matter?
Besides why would the Wolves use their one and only max contract on Love, regardless of how good he is, when Rubio is clearly the franchise player in their eyes.

It seems Minnesota finally made a pretty slick move and the media members jealous of the “blog writer turned GM” are blindly ripping them.

Besides if the wolves are competitive (which let’s be honest, with Adelman, Derrick Williams, Rubio and Love…they will be) Love can optionally extend it to a 6 year deal.

Sounds to me like a great way to treat a star player.

The only bad blood is in your jealous idiotic self.

If Love bolts after three years, it won’t be because the Wolves low-balled him. It’ll be because they couldn’t or wouldn’t build a decent team around him. And if that’s the case, it only makes sense that he would leave for greener pastures.

Guess what? Its easier to replace what Love does than it would be to do what Kidd and Nash did in their prime, and Rubio may have a higher ceiling than both of them. Rubio is already really good, what’s he going to be with 3 years of seasoning? Love would be an idiot to leave, especially since Minny can still outpay other team via Bird rules, and should be a playoff team.

If they aren’t, then Love obviously can’t help them get better and should be gone. If he’s still getting stats, then the Wolves dump him for assets. If he isn’t, than they aren’t on the hook to another squandered pick for 5 years.

Win-win for the Wolves. And a terrible take by the author of this article, who I won’t even scroll up to bother naming him.

It’s a fair point that failure to create winner gives Love an out after 3 years, but do you think he’d sit quietly by for 5 years if there is no winner? KG ran out of patience after he got a record setting contract.

This move has some risk, but it also have potential upside for the team that only people other than the author seem to grasp.

Kahn has made some questionable moves to say the least. But bringing in Adelman, Rubio, and Williams appear to be good moves, Williams is the most questionable right now, but he has all the tools to develop into a great NBA player. Hate on Kahn all you want, but this was a good move by him.

If we are still a bottom feeder after 3 years with Kevin Love then it would probably be in our best interests to let him leave. I mean clearly something has gone wrong in the whole process. Convenient that it has been failed to mention that after the 3 years if Love likes it here the team and him can agree to a 2 year extension on top of the 4 years.

Solid deal for both player and team.