{"id":39820,"date":"2014-02-24T14:54:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T20:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=39820"},"modified":"2014-02-24T14:54:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T20:54:28","slug":"wolves-k-love-tops-in-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=39820","title":{"rendered":"Wolves K-Love, Tops In West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/klove.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39821\" alt=\"klove\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/klove.bmp\" \/><\/a>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love is the NBA&#8217;s Western Conference Player of the Week.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s the second time this season Love won the award. The league made the announcement Monday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Love scored 42 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to lead the Wolves to a 104-91 win over Indiana on Wednesday. He followed that performance with the first triple-double of his career three days later at Utah, scoring 37 points, grabbing 12 rebounds and handing out a career-high 10 assists as Minnesota beat the Jazz 121-104.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On the week Love averaged 36.7 points on 57 percent shooting, 12.7 rebounds and 3.7 assists per game.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is the first time since the 2003-04 season that Minnesota has won multiple players of the week in the same season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0MINNEAPOLIS (AP) &#8211; Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Love is the NBA&#8217;s Western Conference Player of the Week. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s the second time this season Love won the award. The league made the announcement Monday. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Love scored 42 points and grabbed 16 rebounds to lead the Wolves to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":24630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39824,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39820\/revisions\/39824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}