Kevin Love is tiring of all the losing in Minnesota and it's starting to show in his deteriorating relationship with some teammates.
According to ProBasketballTalk.com, Love lashed out at teammates following their buzzer-beating home loss to the Phoenix Suns on Wednesday, which dropped the team below (17-18) .500.
"We can't have two guys sitting at the end of the bench, who play good minutes, just sitting there and not getting up at timeouts," Love told ProBasketballTalk.. "We all need to be in this together. That kind of pisses me off. We're supposed to be a team."
While the website said Love did not name names, most have speculated his words were directed at teammates J.J. Barea and Dante Cunningham, both of whom remained seated during a fourth quarter timeout when the game remained in the balance.
"It's to a point that where those two guys, if and when I did that last year when maybe I didn't sit out for the game for 48 minutes and so on and so forth, they would have killed me," Love added. "They would have aired me out. It's two guys we expect more from them, and I think they expect more from themselves."
The timing of Love's growing disenchantment couldn't come at a worse time for the organization. The star forward can opt out of his contract and become an unrestricted free agent after next season. With there already having been tension with management over the way his contract has been negotiated, quarreling with teammates isn't expected to help the situation.
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