Wolves Pledge Playoffs Despite Kevin Love’s Broken Hand (Again)

The Minnesota Timberwolves’ doctors confirmed that Kevin Love has broken his hand for the second time this season. He is still deciding whether or not to undergo surgery and he will meet with specialists in New York to discuss it further.

“I certainly think he’ll be out for a number of weeks,” Wolves GM David Kahn said after practice on Monday. “But because we don’t have anything else definitive yet, I can’t say precisely what that means. But a number of weeks is a number of weeks, and yes it’s important for us to try to figure out if there’s something we can do to help alleviate his loss.”

Love missed the first three weeks of the season after breaking his hand in preseason doing pushup workouts. “He’s disappointed,” Kahn said. “I think that so much has happened to him this year that, probably like all of us, my sense is he too is almost disbelieving. It almost seems like somebody made this stuff up.”

Some may think that Love returned too soon. His hand was clearly bothering him throughout most of December, as evidenced by his dropping field goal percentage. He just didn’t look right on the court. Still, the rest of the team will have to step up again in Love’s absence. Point guard Ricky Rubio agrees.

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