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5 things you probably didn’t know about the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kevin Love

By Chad Porto

Dec 13, 2021; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love (0) shoots a three-point basket in the fourth quarter against the Miami Heat at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Mandatory Credit: David Richard-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 13, 2021; Cleveland, Ohio, USA; Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love (0) shoots a three-point basket in the fourth quarter against the Miami Heat at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Mandatory Credit: David Richard-USA TODAY Sports /
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MIAMI, FLORIDA – DECEMBER 01: Kevin Love #0 of the Cleveland Cavaliers looks on against the Miami Heat during the second half at FTX Arena on December 01, 2021 in Miami, Florida. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images)
MIAMI, FLORIDA – DECEMBER 01: Kevin Love #0 of the Cleveland Cavaliers looks on against the Miami Heat during the second half at FTX Arena on December 01, 2021 in Miami, Florida. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. (Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty Images) /

The Loves are a famous family

Kevin Love is one of the greatest NBA players of all time, so it should not be any shock to you (cus you just read about it) that Love is the son of a former NBA player. Love has transcended his father as an NBA player, and is far more pivotal and noteworthy of a player. Yet, it runs in the genes apparently.

While Love’s father Stan was dominating the basketball game in Oregon and playing in the NBA, Stan’s sister-in-law, Kevin’s aunt, was dominating another sport. Kathleen McCartney Hearst rose to fame in the 1980s as an ironwoman competitor and even won the 1982 Ironman World Championship in  New York. She’s one of the greatest triathletes of the 1980s in part due to her success in New York.

…A very famous family

Yet, if you know anything about Love, anything at all, you may know that Stan Love’s brother, Mike Love, is a founding member of the iconic surf-rock band, The Beach Boys. Mike Love, however, was not the only member of the Love family to be a founder of the Beach Boys. In fact, four of the five founding members of the group were all part of the same genetic family.

Mike and Stan’s cousins, on their mother’s side, are in fact Dennis, Carl, and Brian Wilson, arguably the three most notable members of the band. The four of them would dominate the 1960s and fight for prominence with the likes of the Beatles for who the biggest band in the United States. Later, Stan would become Brian’s personal bodyguard and would attempt to help keep the troubled star off of drugs and on the straight and narrow.

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