Why Is Kevin Love Wriggling Like A Worm After This Missed Three-Pointer?


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Kevin Love is back to playing basketball, which is great news, because he’s really good at what he does and it is never cool when people are unable to do their job because they are hurt or sick or something like that. It is also great that he’s back because, as we learned on Monday night, Love is something like a comedic genius.

Early in the third quarter, Love went to take a three. It was blocked by the rangy John Henson, and in the process of coming down after the shot, Love hit the deck pretty hard because his leg got tangled up with the Bucks’ big man. Khris Middleton pushed things in the other direction, while Love was laying on the ground.

But as the astute eye of Rob Perez saw, Love was not on the ground in pain. Rather, Love was on the ground in front of his bench and decided that he’d prefer wriggling around like a worm more than he would like getting up and playing defense. That sounds like I am mad at him for not immediately getting back on defense but I swear, I am not, and that it was extremely good.

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… why is Kevin Love scooting around on his back?! 😂😂

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Cleveland was up 66-59 when this happened, so it’s not like this was a mid-blowout activity to bring some lightheartedness to an otherwise boring game. Love just was laying on his back and felt the best course of action was to just slide around like he was a backstroker, but on land, instead.

Love has shown that he has a tremendous sense of humor, but this is still some top-notch stuff.

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