The Cleveland Cavaliers face off against the Minnesota Timberwolves tonight, and that means the return of one Kevin Wesley Love to the city and team that housed him for the first six years of his career.
To promote the game, and to give a good nature ribbing to their departed star, the 'Wolves media department put together a pretty hilarious video asking fans to come out to celebrate the return of...wait for it...Mike Miller, who donned a Timberwolves jersey for exactly one season. You can watch the video below.
Everyone had a good laugh about it, especially Love, who called it "hilarious" and denied having any issue with it. But Timberwolves head coach Flip Saunders apparently still laughs at reruns of "Two and a Half Men," because he did not find his organization's meddling the least bit humorous. Ahead of the game, Saunders did a whole bunch of talking about the video in question. Via cleveland.com:
"I didn't know about it," Saunders said. "I didn't approve of it. I think as an organization, we should be above that. We have to acknowledge that Kevin, when he was here, he was a great player for us. He was an All-Star, won an Olympic gold medal, did a lot of positive things."
Alright, Flip. Whatever. Oh you've got more to say? OK, fine. Go ahead. Speak from your heart.
"It doesn't matter if [Kevin] thinks it's funny," Saunders said. "You have to decide what you want to do as an organization. Would San Antonio do that? No. They wouldn't do that. Our players didn't like it. They have to play against him too. They don't like it. It just doesn't set the right message and if you're here and then you leave, all of a sudden it's not."
Cool, now that we've got that out of the way...oh what's that? You want to keep going? Great. Excellent. Perfect.
"Was it funny? Maybe people thought it was funny. For me it wasn't. I had to deal with three and half, four hours the last two days having people calling me and talking about it while I'm trying to prepare for games. Maybe you think it's OK. That's up to you. You can look at it that way, but I don't look at it that way. As someone running an organization and has to go out and recruit players and to get those player. He may have thought it was funny, but I know deep down in his heart no one likes it. No one would like that. It's human nature."
So, don't make a joke around Flip Saunders about anything, ever. Got it.
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[Via cleveland.com]
