Kevin Wesley Love (born September 7, 1988) is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the NBA. He signed with Minnesota on July 11, 2008. Love played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins.

The son of 1970s NBA forward Stan Love and Karen Love, Kevin Love was born in Santa Monica, California in 1988, and moved with his family to Oregon at an early age.

He attended Lake Oswego High School in Lake Oswego, Oregon, where he was ranked as one of the top players in the nation from the class of 2007. As a sophomore, he led Lake Oswego to the 2005 Oregon state high school basketball championship game, but the team lost to Jesuit High School 57–53. That summer, Love was the center of controversy when Nike removed him from its Portland Elite Legends AAU team because he had chosen to participate in the Reebok ABCD Camp against other top recruits such as Greg Oden. Love went on to play for the Southern California All-Stars, who compiled an unprecedented 45–0 record with Love, who garnered 4 MVP awards along the way.