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Ain’t Nothin’ but a Party:  Kevin Love gets a Freeze Frame moment, signing a $5.47 Million, 2-year contract to become a T-Wolf

KLove made it official yesterday, putting his signature on a contract to become the new Minnesota Fat Cat.  Five and a half Mil for 2 years, with options for two more years at around $3 Mil and $3.8 Mil.  Many critics don’t think that Kevin is cut out for the NBA, but Kevin McHale isn’t one of them.

The T-Wolves’ GM is confident that Love has the desire and ability, and McHale plans to share his own personal experience as an NBA Power Forward with Love before Love’s Rookie season gets underway.  Love is playing in Vegas now in the NBA Summer League, as are most of the big name Rookies, but if you want constant stats and updates, you’ll have to look elsewhere.  You can even go to Bruin Zone, where they are getting excited over Russell Westbrook’s early, high-scoring success.  But the competition is not high-caliber, and exhibition is exhibition, so maybe it should be viewed with tempered enthusiasm.

Westbrook, by the way, also signed HIS contract, which will pay him about $6 Mil over 2 years in Oklahoma City.  Russell’s team, which just moved from Seattle, has not yet chosen a new team nickname to replace “SuperSonics.”  Since they’re moving to the Sooner State, how about “SoonerSonics,” or, “SuperSoonics” (“Soonics” for short)?  Of course, if they suck, or worse, play without balls, people will call them the “Super Eunuchs.”

Or for you literary types,  “The Oklahoma City WRATH.”  Like Wrath of Khan, but in deference to “The Grapes of Wrath,” that Fonda movie about Okies (yeah, yeah, okay –it was a book first).  “The Wrath” sounds pretty cool, and it’s a lot better than “The Grapes.”

Westbrook wasn’t the only Bruin to sign an NBA contract last week, prior to Love:  Luc Richard Mbah a Moute signed with Milwaukee, and at least some of the money IS guaranteed, even if he doesn’t end up playing for the Bucks.  Again, you’ll need to look elsewhere if you want contract DETAILS, but the contract numbers for Westbrook and Love were dictated by a sliding Rookie scale that the NBA and Players’ Union has set up.  In other words, this whole article is NOT newsworthy, as these signings and amounts of riches were foregone conclusions.  Sorry.  To make up for it, here’s a Love-ly pictorial, that starts with Love, and is sustained by Lovelies.  As always, you can click on the pics to enlarge them, and you can mouse over them for captions (which are particularly strange tonight).  For instance, did you know that Brian Dohn is not interested in the UCLA Dance Team?  He must be the only one.