American basketball player Kevin Wesley Love, who is presently a member of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers, was born on September 7, 1988. He has been in five All-Star contests, twice made the NBA Second Team, and in 2016 he and the Cleveland Cavaliers won the NBA title.
Love received a unanimous vote for First Team All-America selection and Pac-12 Conference Player of the Year honors. He decided to enter the 2008 NBA draft instead of using his remaining three NCAA eligibility years.
Kevin Love Parents: Meet Stan Love And Karen Love
Stanley S. Love, a former professional basketball player from the United States, was born on April 9, 1949. He is the younger brother of Beach Boys member Mike Love and the father of NBA player Kevin Love. Stan also served as band member Brian Wilson, the Lovers’ cousin bodyguard, ‘s trainer, and assistant in the late 1970s.
Milt Love, a union sheet metal worker, and vocalist Glee Love raised Love, the fourth of their six children, in Baldwin Hills in West Los Angeles. Mike Love is his older brother. Mike later founded the Beach Boys with his cousins Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson.
Love, a 6’9″ forward who graduated from Morningside High School in Inglewood, California (where he played center his senior year), played NCAA basketball for the Oregon Ducks from 1968 to 1971.
Love was selected by the Baltimore Bullets as the ninth overall choice in the 1971 NBA Draft. In the 1971 ABA Draft, the Dallas Chaparrals also selected him. Also, the Texas Chaparrals had chosen him in the 1970 ABA Draft while he was still a freshman.
Kevin Love’s mother, Karen Love, lives a private life out of the limelight hence not much is known about her at the moment.