NBA: Love opens up: “Thought I’d die”

During the past season, Kevin Love of the Cleveland Cavaliers declared that he had suffered from panic attacks in the meantime. The Power Forward now reopened on this topic and explained his suffering.

“It was terrible,” Love told Jackie MacMullin of ESPN. “It was like having a heart attack. That really scared me. I had a feeling I was about to die.”

The Cavs star also talked about this moment on the Today show and stated that the attack was so violent that it finally collapsed. “I just wanted to get some air, but I fainted in the end.”

In the past these conditions made him very afraid, which is why he isolated himself. Later he tried to suppress his mental problems. “In our sport, in our world, people are taught to be oppressed as a man. “You learn that you suffer in the closet instead.”

Love has played for the Cleveland Cavaliers since 2014 and reached the finals four times in a row alongside LeBron James. However, the Power Forward was often criticised. Following the departure of LeBron, Love is the sole franchise player in Ohio, and the Cavs have given the Big a new four-year contract worth $120 million.