As you may have heard, there are some tensions in the Cleveland Cavaliers' locker room even though the team has been among the best in the NBA for the last two months. The team has vaulted form the middle of the Eastern Conference pack to the likely number two seed for the playoffs (they have a 2.5 game lead over the third-place Bulls with just seven games left).
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The team is still enduring questions about Kevin Love and LeBron James, however. Love recently said that he and LeBron are "not best friends," and LeBron said earlier this week that he only has three good friends in the whole league, and Love is not among them. Teammate Kendrick Perkins does not think that friendship matters, according to Pro Basketball Talk.
"What people don't understand is that this is not a place that requires you to be best friends," Perkins said. "I think sometimes people don't realize that this is work for us. So when you go to work every day, that doesn't mean your co-worker has to be your best friend. This is our job. You don't have to be best friends to come out here and work together..."
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"I turn on ESPN and I see, 'No Love for K-Love,' or something like that, and it's kind of silly to me," Perkins continued. "I haven't seen anything to the point that it's drama. ... I don't think Ray and KG were best buddies in Boston. I was best friends with Rondo. I hung out with KG a little bit, but I wasn't best friends with him."
Based on the on-court body language and all-around interactions between them, it seems unlikely that anyone would accuse James and Love of being friends.
And while the poor relationship may contribute to Love leaving the team as a free agent this summer, it hardly precludes them from winning a title. After all, Shaq and Kobe had a famously antagonistic relationship, and they won three straight titles and almost added a fourth.
Winning a title may entice Love to sign a new contract with Cleveland, if he thinks he can handle the relationships with his teammates.
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