UCLA coach Ben Howland held his season-ending press conference today, and as one could imagine, the topic of the Los Angeles Times story saying center Kevin Love and point guard Darren Collison met separately with Howland told the coach they were leaving for the NBA was a major topic.
The Daily News reported last night the players (or their families) denied this took place, and so did Howland during his press conference.
“It was not accurate that (Love) told me on Monday that he was leaving to go to the NBA,” Howland said. “He left today an hour ago to go home …and he’s going to sit with his parents over the weekend and at that time try to formulate some decision as to what he wants to do.
“It was an erroneous report that he said that, along with Darren Collison. I never met with Darren on Monday. I never spoke to Darren on Monday. I did not see him. I did not email him. I did not text him, so that was not accurate.”