CLEVELAND -- Newly re-signed Cavs Power Forward/Center Kevin Love is showing some skin and baring his soul, as the cover boy for this year's ESPN Magazine Body Issue.
The Body Issue is the edition of ESPN The Magazine featuring top athletes from across the sports spectrum, posing for the camera completely nude. Of course, these are artistic photos and don't show anything too graphic.
Love was chosen to grace the cover of this year's issue, coupled with a very candid interview on the pages within.
Good news for Cavs fans -- Love says he's committed to having a very long career.
"At the end of the day, I want to play until I'm 40. And I would like it to be my choice. I 100 percent think that my best basketball is ahead of me," Love told ESPN The Magazine.
Among other topics, Love talked about his playoff shoulder injury at the hands of Celtics Center Kelly Olynyk.
"As time went on, I was upset, but I always knew that I was going to get to the point where I could talk to Kelly and say, 'Hey, man. All good,'" Love said, explaining how he and Olynyk buried the hatchet.
Of course, inevitably, the conversation shifts to the focus of the issue -- his body. Specifically, Love's struggles with weight as a child, and his fitness as a pro athlete.
"I got teased, like any kid who was round and big would be. And coming out of college, I was, for lack of a better term, doughy," Love said.
"I like working out in sand -- there's nothing quite like it in terms of firing so many different muscles," he said about his workout routine.
The 2015 ESPN The Magazine Body Issue is available on newsstands July 10.
