NBA Rumors: Kevin Love Unlikely To Be Ready For Opening Night?

NBA Rumors: Cleveland Cavaliers forward Kevin Love isn’t confident that he’ll be ready for opening night

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There was a chance that the Cleveland Cavaliers were going to have to begin this season without both Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love in the lineup. Now, even after Love has begun practicing on some level, that seems more likely.

In an interview with Sporting News, Love told reporters that he’s not completely sure he’ll be available on opening night. Even though he says that he feels good, it’s up to the doctors to make that final call.

All Love has been cleared for at the moment is 3-on-3 practices, not the full blown 5-on-5.

"[via Sporting News]“I feel pretty good,” Love told Sporting News. “As far as the opener goes, I am not completely sure. I’ll probably get with the doctors and see what they have to say. I know that my six-month post-op is coming up here pretty fast. As far as getting the strength back, getting the range of motion, I feel pretty good, so I am looking forward to getting into some more contact, getting into a rhythm and getting out there as quickly as I can.”Love has been cleared for 3-on-3 practices, but not yet for 5-on-5. If it were up to him, he’d be back on the court, but he understands he needs to follow the rehab protocol for his injury.“(Six months is) just a ballpark figure that has generally been thrown out there by anybody who has talked about the rehab process for this kind of an injury,” Love said. “I like to think that I am ahead of the game, but there’s different tests and the due diligence that the doctor will go through and the training staff will go through. So all I can do is go out there every day and attack my rehab and hopefully I will be able to go out there and help these guys as soon as possible.”"