Here’s the Boston Herald reporting the latest on possible Celtics target Kevin Love — if he enters free agency:
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According to all sources, Danny Ainge still has affection for Love, but it’s not nearly the borderline obsession that was in play last summer.
Times change. Rosters change. The old flame doesn’t necessarily burn as brightly.
While all Celtics/Love talk may be rendered moot anyway if the Cavaliers present him with a big-money extension, the general circumstances here make it perhaps even more of a longshot that he plays his 2015-16 home games in Boston. The major difference is that last year Ainge was doing everything he could to avoid the deeper rebuild that came when he didn’t get Love and was fated to trade away Rajon Rondo and Jeff Green. (And as it turned out, the Celtic president of basketball operations was in many ways fortunate to be able to find palatable deals for those two.)
