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Stan Love, NBA Player and Brian Wilson’s Caretaker, Dead at 76
Stan Love, a former NBA player, father of Kevin Love, brother of Beach Boys' Mike Love, and onetime caretaker of Brian Wilson, has died.
Love was a 6-foot-9 forward who played college basketball at the University of Oregon before being drafted in 1971 by the Baltimore Bullets (now the Washington Wizards) with the ninth overall pick. (A 1977 Rolling Stone report that documented a massive Beach Boys blow-up includes a scene where writer John Swenson heard Love “screaming at Dennis that he was riding on Brian’s coattails. In the early Nineties, Love was briefly dragged back into the tumultuous world of the Beach Boys, when he petitioned a Santa Monica court to be named Wilson’s conservator.
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