- Here you should try that.
Tell me what you think, just knead it up.
- It's PBJ. - PB and J.
I just gave the one I really need to you.
- Oh I'm sorry. - No, no, it's okay.
What's up, I'm Kevin Love.
I'm here at the GQ offices
and these are my essentials.
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Okay, my most essential
is my bag.
So I had this Louis bag for a while.
I collect vintage patches.
And on this one here,
I try to theme 'em out.
It's kind of like an eras bag,
but also 90s and abode to
showing love to my hometown.
Like I have Portland Fire and Rescue,
obviously Nintendo, Powell's Books Portland, Oregon,
Jurassic Park first movie I ever saw in theaters,
I closed my eyes when the
T-Rex was screaming.
Love the superhero vibe.
You got Batman and Robin Pow,
you have the Avengers, X-Men, infinity gauntlet,
Nightcrawler, obviously Stone Cold's the centerpiece.
The finals, this is actually a patch
from the year that we won it in 2016,
I thought that was cool.
Beach Boys, that's a shout out to my uncle, Rolling Stones.
High fives, like equality,
we can all get along.
That's very relevant to the times now.
Stormtrooper and then
what up Steve Brule.
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Some Pendleton cards.
16 note cards and envelopes
because I like to write hand written cards.
I think it's a lost art.
My grandmother used to do it,
she was a corner stone of our family.
Holidays, birthdays,
random soft Tuesday in February.
My grandma would write cards.
So these are something that I like to do,
I also love the Navajo print on them.
Southwestern vibe.
Shout out Shiprock Santa Fe,
I love their pins, I love their turquoise.
I love everything that they have there,
so don't let me
make my way to Santa Fe 'cause I will,
I will break the bank there, so.
2013 Promontory Napa Valley red wine.
Here, I'll actually take it out of it's cap.
2013.
And if you know me,
you know that
if we're together we will always eat well together
and maybe even more so we will drink well together.
And more likely than not,
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it'll be wine.
I collect the corks,
I kinda put 'em in
either a Nike box like I put a lot of my things,
or I'll put it in an open decanter that I have
that I put these in, so.
I like to take also Polaroids,
and I use the Polaroids to kind of mark the moment,
and mark the year of the wine and that sort of thing.
So wine plays a big part in my everyday life.
Actually, the wine culture in the NBA has become a pretty
big thing.
Some guys have made their own wines.
I know Yao Ming has his own wine, I've had his before.
I've had Dwyane Wade's wine.
I know that Channing Frye,
I've shared a lot of wine with him.
Richard Jefferson, but,
going back to Channing, he actually is in the process of
creating his own wine, so.
There's a lot of even younger guys adopting that,
but I like to think that I was one of the
early adopters on that tip, so.
My next essential is my camera.
Bring it with me everywhere.
I like to think I'm a professional, but,
I'm not.
But it captures moments.
I didn't take enough pictures growing up.
I know that there's something to be said
to live in the moment or capture the moment.
But when you have a good camera,
there's nothing quite like it.
It's nice to have this with me as much as I can.
It's pretty lightweight, nice to travel with.
Kind of throw it around my neck.
Take these photos here.
And it's a beautiful thing.
Split Nutrition.
It's two great foods, one fast pack.
It's peanut butter and blueberry spread.
And it's a super food.
I mean I carry this with me everywhere when,
especially when I'm on the go.
I'm actually really hungry right now, so I might have it.
If you ask any of my teammates or the people that know me,
I have either
an almond butter with
raspberry, blueberry, strawberry spread
or a peanut butter, same thing.
It's nostalgic for me.
It's amazing, I feel like a
kid that gets to eat his peanut butter and jelly sandwich
a few times a day.
And during a workout and it's,
makes me feel good.
Vinyls.
I love music.
Has it all in the bag.
Marvin Gaye collected.
Unbelievable, there's four sides,
two vinyls in there.
One of the absolute best covers,
especially to a vinyl ever,
is "Sticky Fingers" by The Rolling Stones.
And I mean, it has "Brown Sugar,"
"Can't You Hear Me Knocking," "Moonlight Mile,"
"Wild Horses," but,
this is my favorite little feature here, to open it.
We're here in NYC.
One of the best to ever do it,
"The Black Album," no brainer.
I have a Macintosh player
at my apartment.
Very into vinyls,
like I'll go to The Chateau Marmont
and I will
go to their record player
and just start searching through everything.
Usually it's like,
Motown era, it's old school rock and roll,
but then they'll kind of through in
some like Florence and the Machine,
Alabama Shakes, all the way to old school
and new school rap, like the early 90s rap,
all the way through today's era.
So it's a,
it's a fun thing to get to play DJ with vinyls.
Just a different feel to it,
and a different sound.
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so my next essential I actually have
to take one of my shoes off, sorry.
I wear 'em all the time.
I've worn 'em my entire life.
As a lot of you know I grew up in Portland, Oregon.
And Nike started
in Portland, Oregon.
It's an Air Force One.
Culturally it has
broken barriers.
It's a complex shoe in itself,
but at the same time it's
very simple and timeless.
I throw it on with a suit,
or I'll dress it way down and where it to the gym.
So, except it was a size 18.
Yeah 17 or 18,
that's a beautiful thing about Nike.
Them being able to
make the bigger sizes in the right shoes
that's been very key to
my aesthetics growing up.
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Okay, so this book was given to me
by my therapist,
and it is one of my 10 essentials.
"Lincoln's Melancholy"
and about how his depression fueled him into great things
and how
really the landscape of mental health
and mental wellness and illness has
just changed over time.
So this book to me is,
has really taught me a lot since I've been on my journey
and now started my own fund.
It's crazy how much he has done to
further those conversations.
This is a very special book
and for anybody either dealing with it or not,
because there will be somebody at arms reach
that's dealing with something mental health related,
this is an incredible book to pick up.
If you wanna find out more about my fund,
just @kevinlovefund it's found
you can type it in
on any search engine as well and it'll come up
and see how you can get involved,
but it's for physical and emotional well being
and finding out tools to service the masses.
This thing doesn't discriminate.
So yeah, Kevin Love Fund, check it out.
My next essential would be my watch
or my time piece if you wanna get super fancy.
It's my Day-Date Rolex.
Rose gold, beautiful,
chocolate brown face.
I do not have it set right now
because I was in a little bit of a rush this morning.
But no, this is a beautiful watch.
I mention the word timeless a lot,
it's classy and
I look at it,
and it's a reminder that I don't have a Paul Newman Daytona.
So maybe,
maybe in time that'll be a goal of mine.
So, no, that's one of my essentials, beautiful.
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All right another essential of mine is actually this ring
right here, while it looks just like a,
your typical ring to throw on,
it's actually a movement and even more so a sleep detector.
So I get to
breakdown my sleep every single night.
It's called an Oura ring.
And I
kind of wake up, see how I'm feeling,
check the Oura app on my phone.
It breaks down my deep sleep, my REM sleep, my restfulness,
how many times I woke up during the night.
We all feel sleep deprived,
so this is a great way to
not only check up on that but keep myself in check
and make sure that I'm getting the proper amount of sleep
because to go about your day successfully
from a physical and mental wellness standpoint,
this is very key, it helps me.
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My 3x1 dispelled jacket.
So I have great denim from 3x1.
They do an amazing job.
Being from Portland, Oregon,
I'm the lumberjack guy.
I throw on the boots, I throw on the hoodie,
I throw on the denim.
Do a lot of Canadian tuxedos.
I mismatch denim, 3x1 their,
their jackets, their jeans,
really anything that you can get
and handcrafted and handmade for yourself is a win.
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All right so I love hats.
There's times where I wake up in the morning
and usually on a Saturday where I just wanna
go get a coffee, walk down the street, be messy.
Saturday's NYC, they have great colorways.
The hats deep enough to fit on this big head.
And I love their stuff.
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And then I don't know if I ever say this right,
but it's Dehen 1920
it's out of Portland, Oregon.
It's actually kind of a tip of the hat if you will to
the state flag.
Obviously this one's wool so
more so worn in the fall or winter.
But this is a great summer hat
and you can throw on with the white tee
or throw on with denim, whatever you want.
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