Loving it
Kevin Love was admiring his cover on the EA NCAA Basketball 09 video game today and thought the rendering was spot on.
``I love it,'' he said. ``I think it's great. It catches the intensity. And they airbrushed it to make me look good.''
Seemingly the only difference between Love on the cover and Love in real life was that he had a tan in the video game. Love showed off his arm, which wasn't tanned, and surely won't be tanned living in Minnesota.
Love joked that he'll try to use the videogame to get out of tickets.
``I almost feel like when I get pulled over and they ask for license and registration, I'll just pull out the video game,'' he said while laughing.
Jill, why do you always insist on talking about Kevin Love? The guy is a schlub and did nothing for our program other than steal the starting spot from Lorenzo Mata, a guy who gave his HEART AND SOUL to this program.
For those that are curious here is what the cover looks like:
http://www.easports.com/ncaabasketball/home.action
And if KL didn't play for UCLA last year, you would have said something to the following effect:
"They are favored, and we suck. What's the big deal?"
-VB 9/8/2008
Mat's a great player and he's all heart, but you're not going to convince anyone that the Bruins last year would have won more games without KL.
What a moronic comment. Kevin Love carried us to the final four.
Yeah, because we never made it to those previous two final fours without K'Love.
And we probably will never make it another Final Four ever again without that Oregonian Marshmallow Man.
Kevin Love shall be erased from the memory of all Bruin fans. We made it to 2 final fours before he came, and we will certainly make it to more without him. Now we get to watch him ride the pine pony in the NBA for 4 years and then become an analyst for FSN. Pffff... not even that... He'll have to settle for part time over at Versus doing hockey games and Mountain West basketball.
And VB said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And VB saw the light, that it was good, not like Kevin Love.
Then VB purged from all Bruin fans, the memory of Kevin Love: and it was so.
This is great news! I remember envying UNC for having their players on the cover. This will bring popularity to UCLA basketball. This is a clear indication that we're an elite team once again.
Go Bruins!!!
VB - your comments get more and more ridiculous every day, leading me to finally comment after reading in silence for weeks and letting you speak your mind.
So after weeks of dumping on the football team, now you are crapping on Kevin Love? I guess you missed the fact 80% of the offense went through Love this year. Talk about barking up the wrong tree!
Speculate if you wish about Love's NBA potential, but such harsh, negative words about a genuinely nice kid and hard worker are pretty classless. You have the right to say he will or won't succeed in the pros -- no one will know for sure for several months or even years. But note that it takes no guts to rip on an athlete anonymously, especially nasty, overly-negative conjecture/ridicule.
As for your assessments of this year's football team: being negative doesn't make you "realistic." The team doesn't "suck" -- as clearly evidenced by the victory over Tennessee -- and it would help your credibility if you would retract that statement. No one is saying UCLA suddenly is BCS bound after a 1-0 start, so Bruin fans do not need you to supposedly dampen our expectations. I don't know why you appointed yourself to that (unnecessary) position.
You can have all the opinions you want, but constantly expressing your extreme negativity is a downer and draws energy away from the program. Good fans imbue the players with energy -- look at the Anaheim Angels in 2002. The Rally Monkey-fueled crowds at the Big A helped that team come from behind again and again all season long, and it was never more huge than the rallies the Angels manufactured in the playoffs. I went to three playoff games that year, all wins -- including Game 7 of the World Series (!), and I can tell you people should not underestimate the power of a positive, supportive home crowd. I wish UCLA had such positive, supportive crowds at the Rose Bowl, but too many people are like you -- sneering negativists.
Get with the program -- literally. Support the team; stop tearing it down.
Go Bruins
Michael
The EA press conference was on UCLA's campus. Kevin Love and Ben Howland were there. Love is on the cover of a video game, which will probably be played by millions of kids and adults.
Yup, just saw Kevin in Westwood a few minutes ago...glad to hear that he is on the cover.
I love how this "VB" refers to the program as "we". "We made two Final Fours before Kevin Love ever arrived." From the sound of it, he was playing power-forward and Kevin Love 's arrival cut back his minutes and NBA-Draft stock! Oh, I guess he pays his minimal WAF donation so he's entitled to vent his frustration because of his integral role in the direction of the program.