Kevin Love on His Rookie Game Snub

When all else fails, blame the politics. Yeah!: “I thought it was all political,” Love said of the decision by the league’s assistant coaches to choose players such as Marc Gasol and Greg Oden over him. “Just have to keep playing the way I’ve been playing, keep winning. We’re 10-2 in the month of January, so I just have to keep trying to play the way I have in the second half of the season.”