Recent reports indicate that the T-Wolves are slated to sign Kevin Love to a max-extension. While I find Love’s double-double streak impressive, and given the way money is doled out in the NBA believe he has a right to make as much money as Eddy Curry & Tyson Chandler, I wonder if Love is really the kind of player you build a team around.

Put another way, when was the last time a big man was so dominant and played on such a bad team? Andrew Bogut for example, who has less talent around him than Love, has less impressive individual numbers plays on a team with eight more wins than Love. And one can make an argument that if Brandon Jennings had not gotten hurt and/or the Bucks had kept Luke Ridnour, the Bucks would have twice as many wins as the T-Wolves.

As a person who watched a number of Wolves game early on this season, it was clear that they are a team capable of hanging with any team in the league for 3 1/4 or 3 1/2 quarters. Where they faltered a lot this season was late in the game, precisely the period where a team’s best player is slated to take control and either score the baskets or get the stops needed to close out the game. Late in games Love is often seen parading around the perimeter on offense, and not near the basket where he can either get a basket or a foul. Moreover, if the ball isn’t in Michael Beasley’s hands at the end of a Wolves game, it could look like a round of hot-potato.

Love clearly has a high basketball IQ and he’d be a great asset to any number of teams in the league (Jazz, Lakers, Magic, Spurs are four that immediately come to mind). With the exception of the Jazz, Love would be great on the teams because he’d be a complement to one of the league’s alpha dogs.

Someone has to get paid in this league, and as Chris Bosh can proudly tell you, you don’t need to be the best or even second best player on your team to get a max-contract. But as Bosh can also tell you, it’s a b^$@h making all that money and playing on a crappy team.