{"id":412699,"date":"2023-02-16T01:33:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-16T06:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412699"},"modified":"2023-02-16T01:33:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T06:33:35","slug":"cavaliers-love-finalizing-contract-buyout-heat-to-emerge-as-suitor","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/cavaliers-love-finalizing-contract-buyout-heat-to-emerge-as-suitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Cavaliers, Love finalizing contract buyout; Heat to emerge as suitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers and Kevin Love are finalizing a contract buyout, with the Miami Heat expected to emerge as a suitor for the five-time All-Star should the sides finalize parting ways.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kevin Love and the Cleveland Cavaliers are finalizing a contract buyout, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShamsCharania?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ShamsCharania<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FWyENgGYII\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FWyENgGYII<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA TV (@NBATV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBATV\/status\/1626097771815075840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Love has spent the last nine seasons of his 15-year NBA career with the Cavaliers, being part of Cleveland\u2019s 2016 championship team and making consecutive All-Star teams in 2017 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He battled through a thumb injury earlier this season and was removed from the Cavaliers\u2019 rotation in recent weeks, clearing the way for him and the organization to begin discussions on a potential buyout arrangement that allows him to seek a better playing opportunity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kevin Love ends his career with the Cavaliers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u25ab\ufe0f 9th in PTS<br \/>\u25ab\ufe0f 3rd in playoff PTS<br \/>\u25ab\ufe0f 6th in REB<br \/>\u25ab\ufe0f 3rd in playoff REB<br \/>\u25ab\ufe0f 2nd in 3PM<br \/>\u25ab\ufe0f 3rd in playoff 3PM<\/p>\n<p>He also made 2 All-Star teams, and most importantly, helped bring home an NBA title. Thank you, Kevin Love. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gMA6FbaepL\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/gMA6FbaepL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u0274\u1d0f\u1d1b (@georgemikan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/georgemikan\/status\/1626101725340790786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 16, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cleveland Cavaliers and Kevin Love are finalizing a contract buyout, with the Miami Heat expected to emerge as a suitor for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412700,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17531,17010],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The 34-year-old has spent the last nine seasons of his 15-year NBA career with the Cavaliers","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412699"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412699"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}