Kevin Love

Last night, Kevin Love broke an amazing record. Because we live in Minnesota I am sure most of you are aware of this astonishing feat. He recorded his 51st consecutive double-double which is the longest consecutive streak since the merger in 1976-77.

Eager to see the accomplishment and watch the highlights on Sportscenter last night, I instead had to waste my team hearing Erik Spoelstra talk about his players crying in the locker room after losing to the Bulls, and Dwight Howard's suspension due to his inability to keep his big mouth (physically and metaphorically) shut. This is simply outrageous.

What Kevin Love accomplished Sunday was something that hadn't been done by Karl Malone, David Robinson, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Dennis Rodman, or Michael Jordan. Ever heard of them? And Kevin Love does not finish every game with 10 points and 10 rebounds. Sure he has a few here and there, but so does Dwayne Wade or Tim Duncan. Kevin Love usually exceeds 20 points and 15 boards. Remember his 30 point 30 rebound game a few months back? The first 30-30 game to be done in over 20 years.

We are all aware that the Wolves are a miserable 15- 50 and in the 51 consecutive double-doubles streak, the Wolves are 11-40. This may sound bad, but when you think about it, the wolves were only 4-10 before the streak started, how many people really thought we were going to make a serious run this year? David Khan sure didn't. I am sick of hearing about the Wolves' unfortunate woes this season while discussing Love's streak. We all know the Wolves like to blow leads in the 4th quarter, as they did last night, but do not take credit away from Love.

To finish my case, Kevin Love's accomplishment is very impressive and nothing at all to arrogantly smug at. We all realize that the Wolves are not a winning team and will not be for a few years (with or without Ricky Rubio) and we all know Beasley needs to cut his hair and Johnny needs to stop acting like Steve Nash; so please everybody, stand up and give love to Love. To give him all the credit he deserves, he is THE best double-double player to play the game since the NBA merger. Want to argue?


Tyler Strickland