The former Pac-12 Player of the Year, who is the only player in program history to be named a first-team All-Pac-12 and All-Big 12 selection, said the honor \u201cmeans the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a blessing,\u201d Love told reporters leading up to No. 1 Arizona\u2019s battle with 16th-ranked Texas Tech. \u201cI thank the man above for getting me to this point. It\u2019s been a long journey for me, the ups and downs and everything in between. I wouldn\u2019t trade it for nothing. The decision to come to Arizona is one of the best decisions I made.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s really proving people wrong, I think it\u2019s just proving myself right. And just believing in myself, continuing to put in the work and trusting my work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Love also credited Arizona\u2019s coaching staff and their NBA-style offense for helping prepare him for the success he\u2019s now experiencing with the Blazers.<\/p>\n
After spending three seasons at North Carolina, Love transferred to Arizona where he played two seasons, averaging 17.6 points, 4.6 boards, 3.4 assists, and 1.2 steals on 40.5% shooting (33% from deep on 7.7 attempts). Love is averaging 11.3 points in 22 minutes per game with the Blazers this season. While his minutes have fluctuated in recent games following the Blazers\u2019 trading for Vit Krejci and the return of Scoot Henderson, Love had a 14-game streak of scoring in double digits between mid-December and mid-January when the Blazers needed people to step up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Pac-12 Player of the Year, who is the only player in program history to be named…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,37660,6,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-605981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-blazers-news","11":"tag-nba","12":"tag-portland","13":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","14":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","15":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116079357098990031","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}