Where does the Miami Heat stand at the All-Star break of this NBA season?
Right here: At the crossroads of Hope and Desperation, but close enough to desperate to look at a soon-to-available Kevin Love and see a savior. That’s where.
Love is a five-time all-star, but not lately. Today he is 34 and the guy you go shopping for in the buyout bargain bin. That’s because the Cleveland Cavaliers reportedly are about to strike a parting-ways agreement with the veteran who has served them long and well but had become a reserve and more recently tumbled out of the nine-man rotation to the lonely end of a good team’s bench.