Looking past how unbelievably precious this scene must have been, this tells me one of two things. The first option being that we, as fans, looked far too much into the passive aggressive quotes, exclusionary Instagrams, and confrontational team meetings as social media driven divisiveness in deeming Kevin Love the red-headed step child of the Cleveland Cavaliers. After all, he'd have to maintain a pretty close relationship with the person who serves as their best player/coach/GM to attain FaceTime privileges with the adorable young girl whose birth allowed LeBron to start irrelevantly fancying himself a "father of three" whenever things weren't going his way on the basketball court. Therefore, it stands to reason that the 'GOAT' and the scapeGOAT have never been at the type of odds that we'd put on 'The King' speaking down towards one of his suspiciously unnamed disciples following a disappointing loss. The second option, however, is that this two-part rendition on the Cavaliers' locker room has been filled (and refilled) with so many outcasted doormats that Kevin Love and LeBron James have basically pricked their fingers and became blood brothers if only to keep themselves sane. If you really think about it, the latter's appreciation for the former has to be at an all-time high, and - with Dwyane Wade going MIA (first figuratively and then literally) - LeBron needed someone to sit across from him and sympathize as he soaked his frustrations in a hearty bottle of red. I can't recall an instance in which Kevin Love and LeBron James shared as genuine a laugh as they did following Game 2, and since then they've backed up that chemistry on the court with plays that would figure into consideration for one of highly publicized but completely unimportant end-of-season lists the NFL releases to stay in the news cycle...
Don't take my word for it, but it certainly appears as though the one positive that can be taken from a bipolar Cavaliers team that's just as likely to hit their open shots as they are to come out looking as though they are attending their own funeral is that they indirectly forged the familial bond of two of their only rostered players who would be of any value elsewhere. Considering the tension that's existed between them in the past, that might be the most impressive contribution that Cleveland's extended bench has made all season.
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