3 Cavs players you could make case for for team MVP if season ended today

Making the 2019-20 team MVP case for Kevin Love

I’ll first say that of course it’s not been the ideal season for Love from a team sense, as Love clearly had his share of behavior/body language issues on-floor earlier in the season, of which he apologized in media availability back in January.

At one point, it seemed inevitable that Love, even with him being due to make $91.5 million over his next three seasons following the current season, would be moved by the 2020 trade deadline.

That didn’t ultimately happen, though, and Love has since been a model teammate, realistically, since he apologized for his on-floor behavioral issues, and he’s stepped up in a huge way by donating $100,000 through his fund to help compensate Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse employees/game event staff affected by the league’s suspension during this ever-difficult time in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. Love inspired other NBA players to help out in that way for their arenas’ workers a bunch, too.

Looking at on the floor again, though, we still could seemingly see Love moved down the road by Cleveland in this rebuild, but for now, I’ve been particularly pleased with Love’s play on the floor this season. Love’s had a still very solid 17.6 points per game, which is second on the Cavs behind Sexton, to go with 9.8 rebounds and 3.2 assists per game, according to NBA.com.

Somewhat silently, too, Love’s had a near-career-best 55.0 percent effective field goal shooting clip this year, and he’s hit right about his career average (37.0 percent) from three-point range with a 37.4 percent clip from there, and he’s done a quality job as a secondary playmaker, too. Post-All-Star break, Love had 4.0 assists per contest as well, and seems to have a tremendous rapport with Cavs newer head coach J.B. Bickerstaff.

So when factoring in how Love has still proven to be the Cavs’ best inside-out threat, racked up a bunch of defensive rebounds still, and appeared to be well on track to close out 2019-20 really strong despite so much defensive attention from opponents, one could absolutely make the case for Love being the team MVP for Cleveland if the season ended today.

Now, last but not least, the other player you could make the case for for team MVP for the Cavs this year if the season ended today is a youngster that was really coming along leading into the time of the league’s suspension on March 11.