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Canzano: Kevin Love's master plan is unfolding, as it always has

John Canzano |

The people pulling the strings around the Kevin Love Show have always done a wonderful job of planning the next act. It's why I saw Love's tourist stroll into Boston last weekend ignite rumors about a trade to the Celtics, and immediately tipped my cap to his agent, Jeff Schwartz.

Well played, suit.

There are no accidents or coincidences when it comes to Love. Never have been, likely never will be. Not when he shattered that backboard on a breakaway dunk during a high school game for Lake Oswego High. Not when his high school campaign for Gatorade National Player of the Year unfolded with deft precision and planning. Not when he feuded with Nike after attending a Reebok high school summer camp, and not either when he chose to attend college at UCLA, where he stayed for exactly one beautiful, synthesized season.

Love is on the move. Even as the Timberwolves say they'll hire a coach and attempt to sell Love on a happy future in Minnesota before deciding anything, he's gone. Anyone who knows Love's history, and has followed his story, understands that the mantra in the minds of those around Love is, "Brand Over Band," and there's no way the Kevin Love brand ever included any more time in the twin cities than necessary.

Won't ever include him in a Portland jersey, either, in case you wondered. As much as many of us would love to see the three-time All-Star return someday to the state where he grew up, to lead the NBA franchise he often rooted for, truth is, for Love, the master plan has never included the Trail Blazers, either.

It's been Los Angeles-New York or bust.

Said one NBA executive, "If you're Kevin Love you stay in Minnesota, you get married, and someday your future wife gets to co-host the cute local morning talk show on the local network. You go to New York, and the future Mrs. Love is co-hosting 'The View.'"

The dazzling panoply in Boston was a shrewd play by Camp Love. Given the obvious Kevin Garnett comparisons, the image cut deep for Minnesota. It was the equivalent of drive-by free-agency. But Boston, drafting No. 6 overall later this month, doesn't have the firepower to get a deal done that would put Love in Celtic green for good. Plus, I don't buy for a moment that Love's handlers see him as anything less than a Laker or a Knick, lest they give up on their 25-year-old plan to make him the biggest possible brand and settle.

Think Southern California or even Boston, if you'd like. But I'm keeping an eye on Love and the New York Knicks. Unless Cleveland owner Dan Gilbert loses his mind, and attempts to splash everyone at the summer pool by offering a package that includes the No. 1 overall draft pick, Minnesota is going to take its sweet time dealing with Love's departure.

Won't be surprised when they eventually break down, likely near February's trade deadline, and take everything they can possibly get for his expiring contract, but can you imagine Love in a Knicks uniform? I'll bet his camp already has.

Love's supporters will tell you the kid has always been a winner. They'll point out how unselfish he is as a player. They won't much like most of what I've written here. But they'd be missing the point.

Kevin Love IS a winner. He's won everywhere he's ever played, including taking UCLA to a Final Four. The NBA Draft was probably the first time in his life he wasn't picked first. But what we're talking about here is the clear orchestration of a professional basketball player's brand, and nobody in his inner circle would dare make small, quiet, understated plans.

It's just now how Camp Love operates, particularly when the player finds himself holding the leverage as he did with those sneaker companies in high school and with making his college decision. Love's free agency is the ultimate game changer for his brand. They won't misfire here.

We complain all the time in Portland and the struggles a small-market franchise has in consistently attracting quality free agents. Players care about money. They care about minutes. They care about market size. In that order. All things being equal, our hurt feelings aside, though, players will always pick a city such as New York over Minnesota or Portland.

It's what makes the Knicks failures in the last 14 seasons so woefully tragic. The franchise headquarters should be known as the Free-Agency-Capital-of-the-World, but the franchise itself has operated instead with a garage-sale mentality.

At some point, the Knicks will realize they're the Knicks, won't they? My money is on summer 2015, and you can see all the cap room coming.

Love becomes unrestricted free agent in 2015. So does LaMarcus Aldridge, unless the Blazers close that loop first. If there's one thing Portland has over Minnesota right now it's not just selling Aldridge on a co-star such as Damian Lillard and some playoff traction. It's that Aldridge hasn't plotted in the way Love has.

לא ניו יורק ולא LA .
שיקגו או הווריוס.

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