Road Trippin' (Why Kevin Love may turn out to be the most selfish player in the NBA)

"I still don't live bein' here bruh! I'm supposed to be the man!"

Richard Bach, the famous writer, once said, “Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.” Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave it to us like this, “Every man must decide whether he will walk in light of creative altruism or in darkness of destructive selfishness.” Then Napoleon Hill, one of the earliest producers of the modern genre of personal-success literature, stood up and shouted, “Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.”

Well playas…Kevin Love obviously doesn’t understand what ole boy was talkin’ about. He’s decided to opt out of the final year of his contract in Cleveland to test the free agent market. Not only is he leavin’ a guaranteed $16.7 million on the table, which he can recoup easily in these NBA streets because a boy will pay him, but he’s leavin’ the best opportunity to date to win in his career.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! When asked back on June 5^th was he comin’ back ole boy said, “Yes! I want to win.” Now he’s huntin’ for mushrooms in free agency. Now it could all be a ploy to get more bread and if that’s the case then it is what it is. I can respect his hustle. But if this dun is actually lookin’ to bounce then he’s completely playin’ himself.

You already know that he wasn’t happy bein’ the third wheel in Cleveland but in his six NBA seasons prior to goin’ to the Cavs the dun had NEVER been to the playoffs. Now he’s on a title contendin’ team and he’s not happy because the world isn’t screamin’ his name. Wheredeydodatat? In Kevin Love’s world I guess bruh.

He’s got the best of both worlds playboy! He’s gettin’ bread and he’s playin’ alongside the best player on the planet on a title contender. What more can a boy ask for? He spent 6 seasons playin’ in the freakin’ wilderness where only the locals ever saw him on TV losin’! Nobody saw Kevin Love actually hoopin’! He was like Big Foot for 6 years! There was always evidence of him on the NBA stat sheets but nobody actually watched a darn Timberwolves game unless they were playin’ your team.

So when a boy gets on a winnin’ team and has a problem not bein’ the star it tells you everything that you wanna know about him. It ain’t about winnin’ playa! It's about him shinnin’!

Years ago I heard Donnie Walsh say, “There are two types of people in the NBA. Those that love the game of basketball and those that love what the game of basketball can do for them.” Kevin Love comes off as the dun in the second group. If he leaves Cleveland he will prove me right because where else is he gonna go and have the same type of success from a TEAM perspective at this point and get his bread too?

He'd rather lose and shine than win, get paid and be a part of a unit. Think about it bruh, he’s got the Lakers and freakin’ Portland as possible landin’ spots because LaMarcus Aldridge looks like he’s tryin’ to sprint out of there for all the reasons Love should stay in Cleveland. And the Lakers are a train wreck until Kobe leaves. Why? Because the Mamba or should I say, the garden snake at this point, still thinks that he’s the No.1 option and that dun won’t play 35 good games next year. And he’ll be cursin’ everybody out like he’s still in his prime. Sit in the cut and wait for it. 

What sense would it make to leave Cleveland this year and to LA if you wanna shine. Kobe isn't about to let you drive. You may as well wait until he retires if you're plannin' to go to Hollywood and that's, accordin' to him, after next year. Well...he's at least told boyz that he wasn't gonna rob the Lakers again anyway. 

If Love bounces he'll be the most selfish player in the NBA because he'd rather lose than win just to fill the stat sheets! I'm just sayin'!

Some cats have to be the center of attention and that’s cool but don’t keep tellin’ boyz that you wanna win. Because if you wanted to win you’ll stay in Cleveland and humble yourself.

Napoleon Hill wasn’t just talkin’ to be talkin’ when he said that great achievement is usually born out of great sacrifice. He was keepin’ it real pimpin’. However, in order to hear wisdom you’ve got to be humble enough to accept the teachings of it.

Sometimes it takes a boy to run out in the street and get hit by a car to realize that Big Momma knew what she was talkin’ about all along. Unfortunately, not everybody recovers from their mistakes of runnin’ out in the middle of the street. Let’s just hope that Kevin Love doesn’t get hurt too bad while he’s out here trippin’ tryin' to dodge traffic. Stop me when I start lyin’!

Playas Thesaurus: 1) Bread: noun – money, currency
2) Playin’ himself: verb phrase – to make a fool of himself, to do something that you think is cool but it’s not and everybody is watchin’ the person look stupid.
3) Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and it’s non-gender specific.
4) Wheredeydodatat: Hood for, “Who does that?”
5) Shinnin’: verb – to be the center of attention, to be on top and everybody knows it. The One! The Man!
6) Pimpin’: noun – the person that I’m passionately tryin’ to get my point across to.
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