Heat’s Kevin Love Clarifies Comments On Future, Says Plan Is To Play On

BOSTON – Miami Heat veteran big man Kevin Love on Wednesday added context and clarity to a TNT report regarding his discussion with teammates about his approach to these latter stages of his career. Following the morning shootaround ahead of Wednesday night’s game against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden, Love said the candid moment came ahead of the start of the postseason and was meant to stress that nothing is a given going forward, regardless of where players stand in their careers. In clarifying, the 35-year-old former All-Star contrasted his situation to even that of 20-year-old teammate Nikola Jovic. “For context,” Love said, “in one of the breaks that we had at the end of the year, it wasn’t recent, it might have been less than a month ago, I said we have to take advantage of this opportunity and this situation because whether you’re Niko, and you have who knows how many years left, or you’re myself, who also doesn’t know how many he has left, we got to take advantage of this. “It could be one more year.