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Illustrated portrait of NBA player Kevin Love

Kevin Love

Kevin Love advanced stats and career rankings

RolePF · Age 37
Availability37 games · 5 starts
Workload16.6 MPG · 613 minutes
Relative impactUTA #3 of 12 · PF #19 of 76
UpdatedJul 21, 2026
EvidenceEstablished

Low ranking precision · Likely rank #54–#315

Bottom line · 2025–26

In 2025–26, Kevin Love ranked 117th in per-minute impact. His box-score profile ranked 101st, led by elite rebounding. A smaller role at 16.6 minutes per game lowered his overall impact rating. With only about 600 minutes, he finished in the 55th percentile for total season value.

2025–26 NBA percentile rankings: What drives Kevin Love's impact

395 qualified NBA playersEvery player in the comparison logged at least 450 minutes.
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Overall value

Impact Rate
71
60.1
Season Value
55
13.8

Scoring role

Usage
35
16.6%
True shooting
42
56.8%
3-point attempt rate
94
71.4%
Free-throw rate
41
22.1%

Creation and control

Assist rate
56
14.6%
Turnover avoidance
50
12.1%

Possession stats

Rebound rate
95
18.9%
Steal rate
15
1.1%
Block rate
50
1.4%

Lineup signal

Offensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
83
+1.52
Defensive lineup impact387-player lineup pool
18
−1.24

Workload

Minutes per game
19
16.6
Games played
8
37
Total minutes
9
613

Farther right means more of the named trait, not automatically better basketball. Turnover avoidance reverses turnover rate. Lineup rows exclude players below the 1,000-possession lineup-sample floor.

Every season

Kevin Love advanced stats by season

Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.

SeasonTeamAgeGPMPEra-centered box impactImpact RateRate rankSeason ValueValue percentileEvidence
2025–26live modelUTA3737613+1.4260.1#11713.855thEstablished
2024–25MIA3623251-2.23——-1.2—Limited
2023–24MIA3555924+3.7094.1#23105.675thEstablished
2022–23CLE/MIA34621,240-0.1756.3#16645.455thStrong
2021–22CLE33741,665+3.9994.5#22199.691stStrong
2020–21CLE3225622+2.5185.9#5356.960thEstablished
2019–20Historical Defense EstimateCLE31561,780+2.8690.6#34178.091stStrong
2018–19Historical Defense EstimateCLE3022598+2.8190.8#3557.960thEstablished
2017–18Historical Defense EstimateCLE29591,651+3.1691.1#33173.989thStrong
2016–17Historical Defense EstimateCLE28601,885+2.2086.5#50158.885thStrong
2015–16Historical Defense EstimateCLE27772,424+2.7590.6#35223.793rdStrong
2014–15Historical Defense EstimateCLE26752,532+2.2287.8#46205.492ndStrong
2013–14Historical Defense EstimateMIN25772,797+9.22100.0#1636.1100thStrong
2012–13Historical Defense EstimateMIN2418618+0.6972.0#9932.146thEstablished
2011–12Historical Defense EstimateMIN23552,145+5.1398.3#7297.299thStrong
2010–11Historical Defense EstimateMIN22732,611+5.0698.6#6370.498thStrong
2009–10Historical Defense EstimateMIN21601,714+2.6691.1#31159.884thStrong
2008–09Historical Defense EstimateMIN20812,048-0.5252.6#15958.056thStrong

Career movement

Kevin Love's career impact by season

Peak +9.22 in 2013–14 · 18 seasons · 28,118 minutes

The same historical box-score model is used for every season, making the career shape comparable through time. This is separate from the current lineup-context ranking.

Era-centered box impactMinutes
Across-era box estimateWorkload

Career comparison

Compare the shape, not the calendar

Align by NBA experience to compare season one with season one, or by age to compare players at the same stage of life.

Kevin LovePaul George

NBA season number · fixed impact axis −5 to +15

Similar career arcs

Players with careers similar to Kevin Love

The score compares era-centered box impact, peak, prime, workload, career length, position, and trajectory aligned by NBA experience. It describes career shape, not playing style or equal ability.

SF · All-Time Career #109

Paul George

85%

career match

85% season match · 2013–14 ↔ 2018–19C · All-Time Career #31

Hakeem Olajuwon

84%

career match

83% season match · 2013–14 ↔ 1986–87SF · All-Time Career #38

Scottie Pippen

84%

career match

87% season match · 2013–14 ↔ 1993–94C · All-Time Career #165

Nikola Vučević

83%

career match

85% season match · 2013–14 ↔ 2018–19SF · All-Time Career #149

Grant Hill

83%

career match

86% season match · 2013–14 ↔ 1996–97PF · All-Time Career #27

Tim Duncan

83%

career match

87% season match · 2013–14 ↔ 2003–04

Why this rank?

Why Kevin Love ranks #117

The current model starts with box production, checks it against multi-season lineup evidence, caps that correction, then accounts for how many minutes the player was trusted to play each game.

01 · Box-score prior+1.16

Prior rank #101

02 · Multi-season RAPM+0.80

Current total +0.34 ±0.9
Split model · O +1.52 · D -1.24 = +0.29

03 · Bounded correction-0.07

Maximum ±0.75

04 · Model estimate+1.09

Before the within-season scale

05 · MPG-adjusted rate60.1

66.3 unadjusted · 85% role factor · rank #117

RAPM estimates lineup impact while controlling for the other nine players on the floor. The multi-season blend, current total model, and current offensive/defensive split are separate estimates, so they need not equal one another. hussEyquation uses the multi-season signal as a bounded correction, not as a standalone verdict.

What the point estimate meansLow precision

The model's 80% impact interval is -1.22 to +3.34. Exact ordering is difficult when many players have overlapping estimates.

Top 25 chance
0%
Top 50 chance
9%
Top 100 chance
28%
80% rank range
#54–#315
How to read this page

Impact Rate shows how strong a player was compared with everyone else that season. Season Value adds how much he played. The career ranking rewards a high peak, a long prime, and repeated seasons near the top. Older seasons use clearly labeled estimates where the NBA did not record today's full set of statistics. Read how every ranking works →