Kevin Love has agreed to a four-year, $62 million contract extension

[baseline bum]

2 reasons I see him signing for less than the max:

1. He might want to build a contender in Minny, and that gives them a LOT of cap breathing room to sign other players now.

2. He's immediately becomes a top 5 "deal" contract in basketball. He could literally go anywhere to any team with such a relatively low cost for the performance. Not hard to package young players together to make $15mil a year.

I think it's perhaps a fiscal concession but very wise as a basketball move. Love might even realize his skillset would make it hard to build a le contender around him with a max deal.

If he didn't want to sacrifice money to win a le with a Final 4 supporting cast in Westwood, doubtful he takes less to try to win with a horrible organization in Minneapolis.

[baseline bum]

What is his ceiling, though? I'm not sure he is ever going to be the best player on a le team. Definitely a #2 though.

If Chauncey Billups could be the best player on a le team I think Love could do it too.

[Destro]

He wants to keep playing with Rubio!

[Findog]

If Chauncey Billups could be the best player on a le team I think Love could do it too.

The next four guys after Billups were pretty much as good as him. The Pistons had like five #2 guys and ran into a Laker team with an injured Karl Malone and beset by infighting.

[BRHornet45]

sons the Great White Buffalo is worth more than that chump change contract. he should laugh at anything less than a max deal.

[Cry Havoc]

If he didn't want to sacrifice money to win a le with a Final 4 supporting cast in Westwood, doubtful he takes less to try to win with a horrible organization in Minneapolis.

Then maybe this is a trade-minded contract.

[m>s]

great player but not the kind of player that you can count on as the leader of your team imho. dude ain't that great at defense, poor positioning & limited ability in blocking shots though his rebound numbers are impressive. his offensive game can be described as one-dimensional and he doesn't create chances for himself, also the fact that his team sucks balls must count against him in market value

DH is a monster in D plus above-average offensive game while blake MF'N griffin has a leader's heart in him and plays more balanced game, kevin love ain't like neither of them and a 62m/4yr contract sounds like the best offer that could be given to this n!gga tbh

[TDMVPDPOY]

his more of a statpadder, then the type that can carry a team on his back to a win

[Sportstudi]

If I'm Kevin Love, I take pity on the organization and accept the insulting lowball offer (still 60 million dollars, seriously that's plenty), in order to give the team more room to sign better players, challenge Lebron and the Heat for dominance in the ECF for the next half-decade

I'm eager to know how that's gonna work given the fact that Minny is part of the WC...