Kevin Love says how he really feels about Cooper Flagg after catching Dan Patrick stray

Kevin Love isn’t mad at the perceived hate.In projecting the NBA future of likely No.1 overall pick Cooper Flagg, sports talk show host Dan Patrick compared the Duke star to five-time NBA All-Star Kevin Love.

Not as a compliment. “If you start to look at player comps, which we do, you automatically are going to go to a white guy who’s 6-foot-8 or so,” Patrick said on The Dan Patrick Show on Peacock and Fox Sports Radio.

“Now, listed at 6-foot-9, but is he a Larry Bird-type of player? If you said his career was going to be like Kevin Love’s, would that be a disappointment? And it probably would be.”A rebounding machine early in his NBA career, Love was the No.5 overall pick in the 2008 draft out of UCLA.

He is in the 17th season of a career that includes two All-NBA selections, an NBA championship with the Cavaliers and a Most Improved Player Award in 2010-11.But, in an era of athletes fighting with those paid to have sports opinions on social-media channels, Love took Patrick’s comment in stride.Want to tune into as much March Madness as you can? DIRECTV Stream and Hulu + Live TV both have you covered with every channel you’ll need, plus free trials.“For those who will take this as a shot at me …I don’t take it as such,” Love wrote on X.“I was pure skill & will.

Cooper is far more talented than I ever was and if he stays healthy will have a far better career.He could very well have a statue by the time he’s finished.

I’m a HUGE fan.”The unselfish box-score-filler Flagg will lead Duke against Alabama in the East Regional final in Newark, N.J.on Saturday night.

He will be the prize of the NBA draft lottery — maybe for the Nets?“This is somebody who scrimmages against the Olympic team, held his own,” Patrick said.“He’s 18 years of age.

He’s going to make $1 billion if he stays healthy.He’ll probably get a couple of max deals in there, but is he Keith Van Horn, who went No.

2 overall in his (draft) year out ...