DENVER — When Kevin Love was eight he was shooting around with his father one day outside their home in Lake Oswego, Ore., but his heart wasn't into it. He kept begging his dad to let him play some football.
"No way, basketball is your game."
The same cherished game played professionally by his father from 1971 (the draft's ninth pick by the Bullets) until 1975 when the 206-cm, 97-kg eccentric retired to work as a bodyguard for his older brother Mike's group, the Beach Boys.