Kevin Love: “I’ve Said It All Along, I Don’t Like the Pacers”
“I’ve said all along,” Love said, “I don’t like the Pacers.”
Love and Pacers forward Danny Granger almost came to blows with 23.7 seconds remaining the third quarter after Love was whistled for a foul and Granger approached him aggressively.
Players bumped into each other, with Michael Beasley and Martell Webster helping separate the pair. But like just about every fight in the NBA, it was all talking and no punching.
“I know that none of them were going to do anything,” said Love, who finished with 21 points. “Just play ball. It’s part of the game — a hard foul, everybody is getting fouled out there.”
The escalating feud between the two teams extends back to last season, when they split a pair of physical contests with each team winning on their home court.
“(They think) they are so tough,” Love said. “They take those pills and they got all that toughness. I don’t know where that comes from. They all think they are tough guys. I just don’t know where that comes from. It just blows my mind. They are all tough and that makes me laugh.”
The teams won’t play each other again until April 16 at Indiana, but it appears Love is already looking forward to it.
“I guarantee the next time we play them, it will be just as physical,” he said.
