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Cleveland Cavaliers' shouldn't trade Kevin Love and here's why: Bill Livingston (photos, video)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Time to interrupt Cleveland Cavaliers' owner Dan Gilbert's franchise death wish before it is granted.

So far Gilbert has gotten rid of general manager David Griffin, a favorite of LeBron James, annoyed James as a consequence, and shopped Kevin Love for Jimmy Butler or Paul George, neither of which acquisition happened on a dull draft night.

Love is persistently underrated because he subordinated his ego and surrendered a bigger role in the Cavaliers' offense in order to win.

Game 7

Love is not just the third offensive option, but something of a "glue guy," who does things that don't show up in the box score, such as the 10 seconds of lock-down defense he played against Steph Curry in the final minute of the epic seventh game (30 seconds remaining, fourth quarter, in the video.