If the Knicks could acquire a mid-to-late first round pick, I would love to get Kevin Love. Bill Simmons' did a great job of breaking down UCLA's three NBA prospects (Love, Westbrook, Collison). Here's the Love bit:

And then there's the most polarizing NBA prospect of this decade, someone who's inevitably going to look awful in workouts (except for shooting drills) and runs like he's trying to find a bathroom. Yeah, Kevin Love is slow. Yeah, he can't jump. Yeah, he doesn't run as much as he waddles. Yeah, some NBA guys will abuse him on the low post, so you'd have to protect him with double-teams and a shot-blocker if you had one. Yeah, he's probably not posting up that many folks in the pros. Unlike Westbrook, Love brings a ton of stuff to the table but takes off some forks and a couple of knives and maybe even a dinner plate. I concede all of these things.

Just know this: Love always gets his 17-10 (at least) no matter whom the Bruins are playing. He's always in the right place at the right time. He always seems to get garbage points and tip-ins even when he's surrounded by three guys. He's a naturally gifted rebounder, averaging more than 10 boards in just 29 minutes a game this season. He's an absolutely outrageous passer, unquestionably the best passing college center since … since … I can't even remember. He's a natural 3-point shooter and even makes them with a hand in his face. Over the past 25 years, you could say this about only two other big guys (Bill Laimbeer and Rasheed Wallace). His teams always seem to win (dating back to high school), and if you're worried about Love's toughness, check out the box score of his "coming home" game when Oregon's bitter students tore into him for three consecutive hours and crossed every conceivable fan-player line except for throwing things at him … and he responded with an Eff-You Game (26 points, 18 rebounds, 8-for-11 from the field).

Best of all, there's his ongoing homage to Wes Unseld -- those incredible half-court and full-court outlet passes, the single best thing about his game and something that has become more and more effective as the season wore on and his teammates started realizing, "They just missed. I gotta start running. I might get a dunk here."

In an ideal world, Love would remain in college and work on his low-post game, his footwork and his Color Me Badd beard. In a realistic world, he's bolting for the pros and destined to kick off a holy war on ESPN.com between me and Chad Ford. (Kevin, if you're reading this: On the day you declare for the draft, you should put on a Vlad Radmanovic wig and announce you're changing your name to Kevino Lovavich. You'll move up eight spots on Chad's board. Aloha, Kevino Lovavich! Whoops, the holy war has begun. Bring it on, Chad! We're fighting to the death on this one.) But I have a feeling that, in three weeks, everyone will feel dumb for not including him in the first group of "Fantastic Freshmen!" stories this week. As a college player, he's every bit as effective as Michael Beasley, O.J. Mayo and Derrick Rose, and if you're looking for statistical evidence to back this up, just check the Bruins' record (three losses), their seed (No. 1 in the West) and the way they finished the season (10 straight wins against the ferociously good Pac-10).

I'm on the Love bandwagon... what about y'all?

We already have a non-athletic rebounder who likes to hang on the perimeter, gets his stats no matter what, and needs a shotblocker next to him to be effective.

All that said, yeah I like the kid.

Love is a good player. He plays the game rather than looking for perfect entry passes and for the refs to bail him out. Nuff said.