Kevin Love tells Kelly Olynyk, ‘it’s all good’
The Kevin Love/Kelly Olynyk beef appears to be over.
Love, who has missed out on a large chunk of the Cleveland Cavaliers’ run to the NBA Finals after his shoulder was dislocated by the Celtics power forward in the first round of the playoffs, told reporters in Cleveland on Sunday that he texted Olynyk to say “hey, it’s all good’’ about a week after he suffered the injury. This comes after he referred to the play as “bush-league’’ and reportedly wouldn’t accept any apologies or mea cuplas from Olynyk earlier this month.
“I initially was very emotional about the play,’’ Love said in his first public remarks since undergoing season-ending surgery on his shoulder. “I think everybody thinks, ‘Oh, he’s going to be able to come back, pop it right in,’ but at the time when it happened, I kind of knew. And about a week went by, reached out to Kelly, sent him a text and said, ‘Hey, it’s all good. It was a tough play.’ And we just move on from there.’’
Love also said that he “expects to be suiting up by Game 1 of next year,’’ and responded “yes, sir’’ when asked if he meant he’d be doing that suiting up in a Cavs uniform.
Last week, Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports went on Yahoo! Sports Radio and said he thinks Love, who can opt out of his contract this summer, will test free agency and “look closely at Boston’’ as a potential destination.
“I think Boston would be interesting because [Brad] Stevens and Danny Ainge are a very interesting recruiting duo to sell him on how they’d use him there,’’ Wojnarowski said while also calling the Celtics “a real, legitimate possibility.’’
It was Wojnarowski who wrote that the Love/Olynyk play might “complicate’’ Love’s interest in Boston as a free agency possibility right after the Cavs completed their sweep of the Celtics in late-April. Perhaps now that Love and Olynyk have made up, that interest is now less complicated.
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