Kevin Love wore a black starter’s jersey at this morning’s shootaround at Staples Center, an indication he will get his first start one week after returning from that season-opening broken hand.
From Marc Stein/ESPN: includes Ramon Sessions on his list of “players who could be on the move”:
New Wolves personnel boss David Kahn doesn’t give many hints to nosy scribes, especially considering he’s a former sportswriter, but more than one team we’ve consulted continues to believe that Sessions — if you allow us to employ the proper GM-speak — was signed by Minnesota with the intent to “flip” him.

I do wonder if it’s too soon for such flipping, since Minnesota can’t even try to convince Ricky Rubio to come to the States before the 2011-12 season because of Rubio’s new contract with perennial Spanish club power Barcelona. It’s also unclear what sort of market Sessions could generate after a slow start with the Wolves and when he’s just one season into a four-year, $16.4 million deal.

Yet I’ve also heard a couple of GMs say they do expect Sessions to be made available and that his contract is not so prohibitive. We’ll see.

From Steve Aschburner/NBA.com: From Minnesota with Love: Wolves finally looking better
After Love hit a pair from the arc, en route to 18 points and 10 rebounds in a 108-101 victory over Utah on Saturday at Target Center, Jazz coach Jerry Sloan could only blink incredulously at someone who wondered afterward: “Does Love make a difference on that team?”

“You’re not joking, are you?” Sloan asked. “He’s a terrific player. He knows how to play basketball. He passes the ball, he sets screens, he does whatever it takes to try to play the game. It’s not that difficult, but we make it difficult because we think we have to do something sensational. He just plays and never gets off the floor. Those guys play for years and years in this league.”

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