Love moves on quickly minus weight of streak

On the day after, Timberwolves forward Kevin Love smiled and told everybody not to weep for him.

"With the way people were texting me last night, you would have thought a family member died," he said after practice on Monday. "They were like, 'So sorry, if you need to talk to anybody...' I was like, what are they talking about? I feel great. I'm in great spirits."

Love's 53-game double-double streak -- the league's longest since the 1976 ABA/NBA merger -- ended Sunday night at Golden State with a six-point, 12-rebound game. That was his first game without double-digit numbers in both categories since Nov. 19.

"That's a long time ago," he said. "It's going to be interesting to see whether in five, 10, 20 years from now, anybody will contend with that or not. We'll see."

Teammate Michael Beasley said Love's streak never became too much about an individual in a team sport.

"I would say that if we were in the playoffs," Beasley said. "But when you got 17 wins, you got to talk about something to get your mind off the losses. It was great. I think everybody knows that it was great. Some guys haven't gotten 10 double-doubles in their career and he went out and did night after night for 53 games.

"I feel like he's going to shatter that [53-game streak] next year. I feel like next year he can go the whole season with double-doubles."