DaRizzle

No no no, you dont understand.Im not supposed to tell you guys this but real Laker fans actually piss a gold color pee with 24k gold flakes in it.

Schilly

Well that explains the arrogance.

Driew

If we get Love at 13 you won't see me complaining. Sure he screwed the Ducks (GO DUCKS!) but that's over with now and it's time to move on.

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Given Stan Love's rep, I really doubt that all of it can be blamed on Nike, but I have no proof. Fair enough.

I can think that the Loves are douches while still condemning the behavior of people throwing things, bringing his family (Stan Love aside, obviously) into it, and the homophobic crap. Death threats are obviously way out of line, no matter who it is.
Anyway, your point in that paragraph ignores the fact that nobody like them before he ever decided where he was going to college.

As a draft prospect, I'm always nervous about unathletic guys, especially in the lottery. One of his biggest strengths, outlet passes leading to fast breaks, conflicts with Nate's philosophy. A foreign player (bonjour, Batum) would be ideal to stash and put off the advantage of a cheap 4 year rookie contract for a little bit. Once Roy and Aldridge's extensions kick in, it'll be incredibly valuable to have a cheap productive bench player, much more so than now. And, we don't have a lottery contract getting in the way of any free agent pipedreams.

Boob-No-More

I'm going by published reports from respected journalists, like Grant Wahl of Sports Illustrated, not biased, unsubstantiated rumors. Of course, Nike steadfastly refused to comment on why they dumped Kevin Love. So, we'll never hear their side of the story, but that is by choice, not because they haven't been offered the chance.

That makes no sense to me. If "nobody" liked them before, why were they so pissed when he chose to go to an out-of-state school? If they hated him all along, wouldn't they be glad he went elsehwere? Or, at the very least, not give a ****? I've never seen fans so bitter and spiteful toward an individual player. I mean, come on, death threats? Screaming "whore" at his grandmother until she starts to cry? And, it's not like the U of N tried to do anything to discourage such behavior at the time.

Having Phil Knight as your biggest booster certainly has it's pluses. They get the money for top notch facilities, which helps them recruit top players (well, football players, anyway). Phil Knight's wallet put the Oregon football program on the national map. His influence also comes at a price. When his company screws over a 16-year old kid. That kid naturally chooses another school. Way back when he was younger, and hadn't yet been screwed by Nike, Oregon was Kevin Love's first choice. It was his home team and his dad's alma mater. He used to talk with Kyle Singler about going to Oregon together and turning the program into a national power. Then Nike fired him, and that was that. The two best high school players in the state over the last 20 years both end up at out-of-state schools. It would have been great to see both Love and Singler playing at Oregon, but in the end, they both made the right choice.

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Sounds like Frye who is 2-4 inches taller then Love.

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I think Love will have a better nose for rebounding the ball than Frye after some time in the NBA. He'll also have a better back-to-the-basket game than Channing long term.

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Steve Kerr? J.J. Redick?

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Shoe politics aside, at least he showed the good sense to never consider becoming a Beaver. Then again, no player with options seems to.

How glad are you that Duck fans will be cheering on Dunigan and their next class ? I saw MD in the McD's game... dude is an impressive Big.

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He might be able to convince his uncle to perform more in Portland Hap. That would be a good thing.

Unless Travis and Frye are both sent packing for a PG or stud SF there is no chance in hell that Love ends up here. That being said if they were traded and we drafted Love I would be pretty happy.

1. High basketball IQ
2. Good rebounder and outlet passer
3. Can play play both high and low post on offense

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No.

Mike Love is a douche too.

If he can get his dads *cousin* to perform, that'd be a good thing. But Mike Love needs to jump off the "let's milk what the group did in the first half of the 60's instead of actually doing later songs" gravy train.

He, Mike, basically caused the group to become a parody of themselves after 74. He was against any change in the "formula" (meaning, anything not car, girl or surf related would have been discarded if he had his way).

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I have no clue why people hate him. My guess is that he grew up rich, is rich and gets to play hoop all he wants. Then he got to go to UCLA and play hoop and now he is going to be even more rich. He has never done anything in my opinion or that I know of to upset anyone in Portland.

Portland people are just really weird...

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