Love while propably a bit overpaid for his role simply is a winner.
He is the ultimate Team guy who willingly sacrificed Stats/All Star Games,etc to play for a Title Team. He didnt NEED to resign to a 5 year deal with us. He could have said "Nah.. this sucks beeing the 3rd Guy.. and with GSW in the way we wont win anyway.. i'll go to a Team where i am the Man again"
Nope Love wants to win and is willing to sacrifice ALOT.
Also his Game 7 performance speaks for itself. At that point he was totally out of the Series.. had no rythm.. yet he came in and annihilated GSW on the boards,hustled,defended and hell even absolutly owned the CENTER!!!! Position.
With Love at Center we suddenly had a new lineup to throw at GSW and they couldnt really handle it. Shooting at all Positions without sacrificing Rebounding. Thats something not even GSW can do with their small ball lineup.
Oh and "the Stop" on Curry.. i dont wanna hear again how he is a liability on defense. Yes he might never be a statistically good defender but he plays with heart and effort. Thats enough for me.
Love totally has won me over and his Spacing,Rebounding,Passing are absolutly not replacable on our Team.
Now of course if suddenly the Kings offered us Cousins or a simillar deal comes up.. we have to consider it.
But Love is so crucial for us that i wont even trade him for a guy like Butler. The Bulls would have to throw in some interesting Pieces( any combination of at least two of Mirotic,Portis,Lopez,Valentine). We just have won the title against the supposedly best Team of all time... We are in NO rush at all to trade Love.
We have no reason right now. Before the Finals Love averaged 18/11/3 and looked truly like an All Star. Maybe with a full training Camp under Lue he can average this on the season?
We can be the demanding ones right now. If someone wants Love they can expect to bleed for it. The only way i would consider Trading Kevin is when we CLEARY substaintially get better in the process. If its basically a latteral move.. no thanks.