Sports

No Love lost for NBA’s Stern

Timberwolves All-Star forward Kevin Love, in Times Square yesterday to announce he is joining a beach volleyball circuit in Los Angeles to cope with the NBA lockout, spiked commissioner David Stern for his decision to eliminate data on current players from all the team websites.

On July 1, Stern ordered all teams to remove the faces, statistics and players’ names from each team’s sites.

“They took everything off,” Love told The Post. “I laughed, but it’s not funny. You take everyone off? You go on our website and it’s the dancers and Crutch our mascot. I think it’s cool for the charity events, but not using any of the players, it’s silly. Let’s get this thing resolved and play basketball. It’s disheartening to fans and to us. Let’s get it figured out.”

The UCLA product lives in Santa Monica and has beach volleyball in his blood as a relative of Beach Boy singer Mike Love. He will compete next month in the Manhattan Beach Open Aug. 26 as part of the Jose Cuervo Pro Beach Volleyball Series.

Love believes NBA games will be missed but feels the 2011-12 season will be longer than the 50-game slate of 1999.

“My gut feeling is it’s going to be a long time,” said Love, who played points on a makeshift beach court at 42nd Street and Broadway. “I’m hoping and praying it’s not. I want to be able to say I played 15 years, a full 15 years. But it’s looking like it’s going to be a long time. Hopefully it will be more than 50 games, and we won’t have to play back-to-back-to-back. I really hope it is all 82.”

Love, who racked up an historic 30-30 night vs. the Knicks in November, said he wouldn’t mind playing for Larry Brown, who has interviewed for the vacant T’wolves job.

“My style of play, he’ll like it,” Love said. “Obviously he has a lineage of success, including UCLA.”