Your Miami HEAT announced today that they have re-signed Kevin Love. Per club policy, terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Love, a 2016 NBA Champion and five-time All-Star, split last season between the HEAT and Cleveland Cavaliers, appearing in 62 games (20 starts) averaging 8.2 points, 6.4 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 20.0 minutes while taking 33 charges, the second-most in the NBA. He started in 35-of-41 total games with Miami, including 18 playoff games on the HEAT’s run to the NBA Finals. He drew 16 charges in just 21 regular season games with Miami, tying for the team lead, while adding a team-tying five more in the postseason. Love recorded 18 points and eight rebounds in Game 1 of Miami’s First Round road win in Milwaukee on April 16 and added a 15-point, 12-rebound double-double in the series-clinching game on April 26. He shot 37.5 percent from three-point range in the postseason and only missed two free throws (14-of-16) in the entire playoff run. Earlier in the season with Cleveland, Love scored 21 points, dished out 10 assists and grabbed eight rebounds on November 4 at Detroit, becoming the first player in Cavs history to record at least those numbers off the bench, doing so in only 23:26 minutes, the least amount of time by any reserve in NBA history during the shot clock era (1954).
The 15-year NBA veteran has career averages of 16.9 points, 10.4 rebounds, 2.3 assists and 30.1 minutes while shooting 43.9 percent from the field, 37 percent from three-point range and 83 percent from the foul line. He has shot at least 36 percent from three-point range in 11 different seasons and is just one of four players in NBA history to shoot at least 35 percent from downtown and average at least 10 rebounds in their career.