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Last week, Timberwolves forward Kevin Love sat at his locker after making his surprise season debut and said he expects to wear a padded protective glove on his healing shooting hand probably until January.
Midway through the fourth quarter of Saturday’s 96-85 loss at Golden State — the team’s fifth consecutive loss — he ripped off that fingerless glove and flung it toward the photographers beyond the baseline.
By then, he was well on his way to a 6-for-20 shooting night that included one of five three-point attempts and two of four free throws made.
In his first three games back from that broken hand, Love is shooting 34.7 percent from the field, 18.8 percent from three-point range and 64.7 percent from the free-throw line.
Those percentages aren’t all Love just getting his legs back underneath him.
“It’s very restricting,” Love said of the glove.
— Reported by Jerry Zgoda of the Minneapolis Star Tribune
