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Kevin Love is a fantasy basketball draft sleeper for the 2021 NBA season. Target him as a value pick in this season's drafts.
BALLER MOVE: Target Around 60 Overall
CURRENT ADP: 80
ANALYSIS: I have never thought of Kevin Love as a (super)star in the NBA, so it's not that I'm writing about him while being positively biased. It is just that Love is wildly underrated by fantasy GMs these days, and his ADP doesn't align at all with the level of play he showed in 2020. Love logged 56 games for the Cavs last year, playing 31.9 mpg on those and putting up averages of 37.1 FPPG and 1.17 FP/min. No joke those, ranking as the 43rd- and 39th-best marks respectively among players with 1,000+ minutes over the season.
That's correct. Love was a top-45 player last season, yet fantasy GMs are drafting him with an ADP of 80 these days even knowing Cleveland lost Tristan Thompson this offseason. The Cavs are thin as hell when it comes to the center position with only Andre Drummond there, so Kevin Love will log minutes at both the PF and C positions in 2021 and stay on the court for 30+ minutes daily. That should be music to fantasy GMs' ears.
Love, even in a putrid environment and situation, carrying a bloated contract and hated by every real-life general manager as an asset, averaged a sweet 17-9-3 line last season that fell just 0.2 rpg short of featuring a double-double. Love was one of only 14 actual/near dub-dubbers on the year, and if we factor his 3.2 apg into the equation then just 8 players met all three benchmarks in 2020. The top-five players in that group have ADPs in the 10s, followed by Vucevic's 30 and Sabonis' 56. You can get Love way cheaper than that and there is no reason for that to be the case. Asleep fantasy GMs.
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