{"id":284049,"date":"2021-06-25T20:53:33","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T17:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/jalen-rose-thinks-kevin-love-doesnt-deserve-team-usa-roster-spot\/"},"modified":"2021-06-25T20:53:33","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T17:53:33","slug":"jalen-rose-thinks-kevin-love-doesnt-deserve-team-usa-roster-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/jalen-rose-thinks-kevin-love-doesnt-deserve-team-usa-roster-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"#Jalen Rose thinks Kevin Love doesn&#8217;t deserve Team USA roster spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Jalen Rose thinks Kevin Love doesn&#8217;t deserve Team USA roster spot<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jalen Rose is upset with Team USA. <\/p>\n<p>Following the announcement that Kevin Love will join the 12-man roster for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Rose said the Cavaliers veteran doesn\u2019t deserve a spot on Team USA.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cKevin Love is on the team because of tokenism,\u201d the former NBA star, who has the Renaissance Man column and podcast host for The Post \u2013 said on his <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/espnradio\/dallas\/podcast\/archive\/_\/id\/9545077\">\u201cJalen &amp; Jacoby\u201d podcast<\/a> Thursday. \u201cDon\u2019t be scared to make an all-Black team representing the United States of America. I\u2019m dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ointed by that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Rose backed his comments by pointing out Love\u2019s lackluster season in Cleveland. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody that watched the league this year knows Kevin Love did not have a stellar season, was not the best player on his team and did not necessarily deserve to be on this squad,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"\/>Love played in just 25 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s this season and averaged 12.2 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.5 assists.<\/p>\n<p>At one point, his future in Cleveland \u2014 where he won a championship with LeBron James in 2016 \u2014 was in question. During the regular season, Love appeared visibly frustrated with the team and its young core. The 32-year-old just finished the second year of a four-year, $120 million contract extension with the Cavs, who are in the midst of a major rebuild.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to take him off the squad and not put somebody else on it,\u201d Rose continued, before campaigning for who he thinks should take Love\u2019s Team USA roster spot. <\/p>\n<p>        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Podcast\" width=\"100%\" height=\"188px\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.acast.com\/jalen-rose-renaissance-man\/badadviceftj.bsmoove?accentColor=2a2a2a&amp;bgColor=f6f6f6&amp;font-family=proxima%20nova&amp;logo=false&amp;secondaryColor=cc3333\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;\"><br \/>\n        <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m gonna to tell you who\u2019s spot that should be. That should be a young man that was born in the Bahamas, is a McDonald\u2019s All-American, played in high school and college in Phoenix Arizona. Deandre Ayton should have Kevin Love\u2019s spot and I\u2019m disappointed in Team USA for not having the courage to send an all Black team to the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ayton, who turns 24 in July, has no Olympic experience, but has had an incredible season in Phoenix, which currently has a 2-1 lead over the Clippers in the Western Conference Finals. <\/p>\n<p>Love, on the other hand, has championship and Olympic experience. He helped Team USA win gold during the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Love was not part of Team USA\u2019s roster in Rio during the 2016 Summer Olympics, all of whom were black.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" alt=\"Jalen Rose was not a fan of the US Olympic team adding Kevin Love.\" class=\"wp-image-18638104 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/jalen-rose-kevin-love.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/jalen-rose-kevin-love.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/jalen-rose-kevin-love.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/jalen-rose-kevin-love.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/jalen-rose-kevin-love.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Jalen Rose was not a fan of the US Olympic team adding Kevin Love.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NBA players around the league who\u2019ve already <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania\/status\/1407778660199845891\">committed to Team USA\u2019s olympic roster<\/a> include: Damian Lillard (Blazers), Kevin Durant (Nets), Draymond Green (Warriors), Jrue Holiday (Bucks), Khris Middleton (Bucks), Bam Adebayo (Heat), Bradley Beal (Wizards), Jayson Tatum (Celtics), Devin Booker (Suns) and Zach Lavine (Bulls).<\/p>\n<p>Chris Paul (Suns) and James Harden (Nets), who initially committed to play in Tokyo, have since reportedly dropped out. Pistons forward Jerami Grant will reportedly fill Harden\u2019s vacant spot.<\/p>\n<p>Players who\u2019ve declined to play in the summer games include: LeBron James (Lakers), Anthony Davis (Lakers), Steph Curry (Warriors) and Kyle Lowry (Raptors).\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Following the announcement that Kevin Love will join the 12-man roster for the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Rose said the Cavaliers veteran doesn\u2019t deserve a spot on Team USA. \u201cKevin Love is on the team because of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/jalen-rose-kevin-love.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[110313,72405,72406,88154,70889],"class_list":["post-284049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-6-25-21","tag-basketball","tag-jalen-rose","tag-kevin-love","tag-olympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}