Kevin Love reveals what’s retaining him going for 18th NBA season

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The earlier Kevin Love retires, the earlier he seemingly will get into the Corridor of Fame, however he desires his basketball profession to final so long as potential.

Love, 37, simply began his 18th season together with his fourth NBA group, the Utah Jazz, and he’s embracing a brand new position in a brand new metropolis.

"I love it. And I believe that it is a entire completely different problem being right here. I maintain utilizing the time period ‘pay it ahead’ to the younger guys, but it surely's gratifying for me to indicate up day-after-day, and I really really feel excellent. Thirty years of organized basketball, my knees may inform me completely different, however I really really feel actually good," Love advised Fox Information Digital in a current interview.

"I am not an 82-game man anymore, however I prefer to go on the market and put my finest foot ahead, and I love to play the sport. Generally the enterprise as we're talking about will be little — you get traded or contracts come into play. There's undoubtedly rather a lot there that's each good and unhealthy, however I love it. The NBA's been excellent to me, so I need to stick round so long as I can."

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Kevin Love of the Utah Jazz dribbles the ball previous Cooper Flagg of the Dallas Mavericks through the first half of a preseason sport Oct. 13, 2025, at Delta Heart in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah. (Alex Goodlett/Getty Pictures)

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A part of the rationale Love nonetheless feels good is due to Shift Naturals, a wellness model Love joked is medical marijuana-adjacent. With zero sugar or alcohol, the model’s gummies and drinks assist him wind down after a protracted day of observe or being a dad.

"This being my 18th season and my profession being constructed on restoration and consistency, it is nice to have wholesome alternate options and ones that really style good. It is made in Oregon, so my yard, I grew up in Portland, so Bend, Oregon, is close to and expensive to me, and it is a group that I belief," Love stated.

"So, it is glowing waters, it is cocktails and gummies that assist folks chill out and get well and handle stress. I just about use it day-after-day. The gummies I sometimes have after I put my daughter down at evening or after a observe or I carry and get these items in and after, you already know, for hydrating, I sometimes have the glowing waters at evening simply to take a load off unwind from the grind."

Kevin Love of the Utah Jazz through the first half towards the Charlotte Hornets at Spectrum Heart Nov. 2, 2025, in Charlotte, N.C. (David Jensen/Getty Pictures)

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Shift Naturals are simply one other a part of the sports activities science world that Love has leaned into to increase his profession. He additionally credit the inflow of data through the years — data unimaginable when he started taking part in — for why gamers like LeBron James, Stephen Curry and Kevin Durant are nonetheless competing.

"We did not have these wholesome alternate options once I had come into the league. … Now you may have one thing like Shift, it is made for a mellow wind-down. It is good to have these kind of issues," Love stated.

"Sports activities science, there's so many various modalities, and longevity is an actual factor. You are seeing guys, not solely keep round into 15, 20, 20-plus years within the league, the place you may have the Steph Currys, the Kevin Durants, the LeBron James which are acting at a really excessive degree nonetheless on the later phases of their profession. So, once more, it is having issues, whether or not you eat it or it is hyperbaric or pink mild or distinction remedy. There's simply a lot that's confirmed now to actually push guys into longer careers and more healthy careers.

"I want I used to be educated and knew extra [when I first came into the league]. The why and the way it can have an effect on physique and thoughts. That is why it is such a testomony to these guys. It's a must to be a bit bit fortunate, however these guys have managed to remain wholesome regardless of coming into the league when all of this wasn't at our disposal."

Utah Jazz ahead Kevin Love (42) handles the ball towards Charlotte Hornets ahead Moussa Diabaté (14) through the first quarter at Spectrum Heart. (Jim Dedmon/Imagn Pictures)

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Love additionally made a daring prediction. With all the extra scientific information now obtainable, longer careers will turn out to be the norm, coupled with more healthy life off the courtroom, he stated.

"I believe you are going to see it an increasing number of — guys taking part in 15, 20 years within the league as a result of they've all of this. It may be wonderful to see these lengthy careers and what persons are going to have the ability to produce or how they are going to have the ability to produce for longer and simply be higher for longer, more healthy for longer, long-term after they're executed taking part in in all probability really feel higher of their physique.

"You kill the physique, the thoughts will die. I simply suppose it will make for a way more gratifying and fulfilling life simply by feeling higher day-after-day. Really feel like youthful dad and mom, youthful dads, youthful husbands, fathers. It may make for a greater life."