NBA: 30 NBA players you forgot acted in movies or TV shows

NBA: 30 NBA players you forgot acted in movies or TV shows – Kevin Love

Kevin Love’s profile in the league increased in 2014 when he was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers and played with LeBron James, winning a title in 2016. He is still playing and trying to keep alive his NBA career, one that has totaled a surprisingly high amount of accolades, from five All-Star appearances to a pair of All-NBA selections. His career rebound percentage is 11th all-time, highlighting just how dominant of a rebounder he was during his prime.

Once upon a time Love was just a big kid entering the league out of UCLA, the hoped-for heir of Kevin Garnett’s empty throne in Minnesota. Somehow the producers of the Disney children’s television show “Suite Life on Deck” decided that Love was the guy to appear alongside All-Star players Dwight Howard and Deron Williams in an episode of their cruise-ship-based show.

Howard plays the unexpectedly-tall, and basketball-gifted, brother of a character on the show, who shows up with his NBA buddies to help with a friendly basketball game. It was probably Howard’s best acting performance of his career, and Williams is his typical suave self.

Kevin Love is anything but. He is such a surprising pick to appear on the show, and he delivers his lines with all the poise of a young NBA player who has never delivered lines before. Again, how did he get picked to appear on the show? Other than the typical NBA fare (Entourage, an Uncle Drew short) Love hasn’t appeared in anything since. Now that’s not a surprise.