Kevin Love was angry about being left off the NBA All-Star team

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    Kevin Love wasn't voted into the All-Star Game, nor was he chosen as one of the Eastern Conference's reserves by the league's coaches. Then, NBA commissioner Adam Silver elected to name Pau Gasol as the injury replacement for Jimmy Butler. About a week later, when it was announced that Chris Bosh would be forced to miss the game, Silver again bypassed Love and instead gave Hawks big man Al Horford the nod.

    This didn't sit too well with Love.

    "I just enjoyed my break but I just thought, 'what the (bleep),'" Love told Cleveland.com's Chris Haynes Sunday when asked about not being named an All Star. "Whatever. Just keep moving."

    Love is averaging 15.9 points, 10.4 rebounds and 2.4 assists for the first-place Cavaliers, who had only one All-Star this season. This bothered Love. He spent the week off training and vacationing in Park City, Utah, but said he "most certainly would" have flown to Toronto had he been invited.

    "You know what I think that everybody is so caught up in my numbers being 25 [points] or 10 or 12 [rebounds] in Minnesota and now they're 16 and 10 [here]," Love told Haynes. "Naturally being on a team where these are volume guys that handle the ball a lot and they make big plays, miraculous plays, and get us out of holes and score for us. My numbers are going to go down.

    - See more at: http://www.sbnation.com/nba/2016/2/22/11092946/kevin-love-all-star-game-snub-angry
     

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