Kevin Love entered Game 7 of the 2016 NBA Finals primed to be basketball watchers' primary punching bag if the Cleveland Cavaliers lost to the Golden State Warriors for the second straight season. The clear No. 3 man in Cleveland's Big Three had struggled mightily to defend the Warriors' bread-and-butter Stephen Curry-Draymond Green pick-and-roll and, thanks in part to a Game 2 concussion that knocked him out of Game 3 and had him coming off the bench in Game 4, had authored a series quiet enough to make many wonder whether the version of Love who once produced monster scoring and rebounding numers in Minnesota was lost and gone for good . [ Follow Dunks Don't Lie on Tumblr: The best slams from all of basketball] Heading into Game 7, the former All-NBA power forward had averaged just 8.4 points, 5.4 rebounds and one assist in 25.6 minutes per Finals game. While LeBron James and Kyrie Irving turned in Herculean efforts to lift the Cavs out of a 3-1 hole and get them within one win of the greatest comeback in NBA Finals history, Love had shot 36.8 percent from the floor and 31.3 percent from 3-point land in the series, and gone just 2-for-8 in Cleveland's wins in Games 5 and 6. As...