Love Will Skip Road Trip Because Of Groin Injury
Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love will not make the team's upcoming two-game road trip because of an injured left groin.
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Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love will not make the team's upcoming two-game road trip because of an injured left groin.
Minnesota Timberwolves power forward Kevin Love did not practice on Tuesday because of a strained left groin.
Stephen Curry had 24 points and nine rebounds, and the Golden State Warriors ended Kevin Love's four-month run of consecutive double-doubles in a 100-77 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday night.
Kevin Love and the Minnesota Timberwolves are finally starting to show a few signs of putting something together as another long, miserable season winds down.
Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love is in the starting lineup for the game against Indiana despite a bruised left knee. He is wearing a knee brace as he looks to surpass Moses Malone for the longest double-double streak since the ABA-NBA merger in 1976.
The downtrodden Timberwolves faithful rose to their feet and roared like they rarely have done all season, saluting Kevin Love for being one of the few reasons to keep coming to Target Center during another long, miserable basketball winter in Minnesota.
Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love missed practice on Tuesday because of a bruised left knee. The team does not believe that the injury will keep him from trying to surpass Moses Malone's mark of 51 straight double-doubles on Wednesday against the Indiana Pacers.
Dirk Nowitzki overcame foul trouble to score 25 points in 27 minutes, helping the Dallas Mavericks outlast the Minnesota Timberwolves in a 108-105 victory on Monday night.
Kevin Love's latest double-double was almost an afterthought. Love had 20 points and 20 rebounds Wednesday night, and the All-Star had plenty of help for a change as the Minnesota Timberwolves rolled past the Detroit Pistons 116-105. Anthony Randolph added 19 points and 10 rebounds, part of a 61-point effort by the Minnesota bench.
Kevin Love had 37 points and 23 rebounds to extend his NBA-leading double-double streak to 46 games, and the Minnesota Timberwolves snapped a seven-game skid with a 126-123 victory over the struggling Golden State Warriors on Sunday.
Kevin Love is having an All-Star weekend in Los Angeles.
Wesley Matthews had 23 points while LaMarcus Aldridge added 21 to lead the Portland Trail Blazers to a 95-81 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night.
Kevin Love set a Minnesota record with his 38th consecutive double-double, scoring 20 points and grabbing 14 rebounds in the Timberwolves' 112-108 win over the Houston Rockets on Tuesday night.
Kevin Love had 27 points and 17 rebounds, and the struggling Minnesota Timberwolves maintained their surprising dominance of the playoff-contending New Orleans Hornets with a 104-92 victory Monday night.
Kevin Love will be going to the NBA All-Star game.
Kevin Love's cologne wasn't enough to sway the Western Conference coaches.
Through all sorts of excruciating defeats with a record sunk at the bottom of the conference, the Minnesota Timberwolves have found that winning formula to be awfully elusive.
Kevin Durant had career highs of 47 points and 18 rebounds, and the Oklahoma City Thunder overcame a 31-point, 21-rebound night from Kevin Love to beat the Minnesota Timberwolves, 118-117, in overtime on Wednesday night.
Kevin Love had 35 points and 11 rebounds and Darko Milicic had 14 points and 11 rebounds to keep the Washington Wizards winless on the road in Minnesota's 109-97 victory on Thursday night.
Paul Pierce scored 23 points Monday night to help the Boston Celtics overcome a double-digit deficit -- and another double-digit rebounding performance by Kevin Love -- and beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 96-93.
Kevin Love had 23 points and 10 rebounds to lead the Minnesota Timberwolves to a 103-88 victory over the New Jersey Nets on Saturday night.
Chauncey Billups scored 15 of his 36 points in the fourth quarter, hitting three huge 3-pointers to keep the Minnesota Timberwolves at bay and lift the short-handed Denver Nuggets to a 119-113 victory on Wednesday night.
Minnesota forward Kevin Love brushed off LeBron James' recent comments that the NBA would be better off if it eliminated teams so more stars could play together.
The Minnesota Timberwolves do not play until Sunday night in Cleveland when they battle the Lebron-less Cavaliers, which gives everybody plenty of time to marvel at the cartoon-like numbers being posted by Kevin Love.
No deficit is too big for the Utah Jazz to overcome and no lead is too great for the Minnesota Timberwolves to squander.
