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Kevin Love

Basketball

Served as envoy

  • 2020  –  Virtual

Kevin Wesley Love is an NBA player for the Cleveland Cavaliers. He was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2008 NBA Draft, playing for them until 2014. During his 2010-2011 season, he scored his career-high of 43 points and 17 rebounds. In 2014, Love was traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers in which he has led them to numerous wins during the normal season and the NBA Finals. He is a five-time All-Star and won an NBA championship with the Cavaliers in 2016. He was a member of the gold winning US national team at the 2010 FIBA World Championship and the 2012 Summer Olympics.

In 2018, he established the Kevin Love Fund to provide tools and assistance for people to help improve their physical and emotional well-being; with the intended goal of assisting more than 1 billion people over the next 5 years. With the Kevin Love Fund, he has begun two program that empower high school students to make healthy choices and to the UCLA Athletics Department. In 2020, he announce his fund was pledging $500,000 matched by the UCLA Centennial Term Chair Match, to establish the Kevin Love Fund Chair in UCLA’s psychology department — the investment will support work to help diagnose, prevent, treat, and de-stigmatize anxiety and depression.