Miami Heat forward Kevin Love mourned the death of his father, former NBA star Stan Love, in a touching post on social media shared on Sunday, April 27.

Tristan Thompson will always be on Kevin Love’s team. ... “Dad, you fought for a long time,” Kevin—who shares two kids with wife Kate Bock—captioned an April 28 Instagram post, ...

The elder Love, a forward, was selected with the No. 9 pick by the Baltimore Bullets in the 1971 NBA draft. Across 226 games with both the Bullets and the Los Angeles Lakers, he averaged 6.8 ...

Kevin’s wife, Kate Love, also dropped heart emoticons in the comments section. Former WNBA player Nancy Lieberman wrote, “Kev, those are some of the deepest words that I have heard.

Stan Love was a 6-foot-9 forward who starred at Morningside High School in Inglewood, California, and at Oregon before he was selected ninth overall by Baltimore in the 1971 NBA draft.

Related: Kevin Love and Kate Bock's Relationship Timeline. Love called his father, who also played in the NBA, his "greatest teacher" and thanked him for teaching "admirable qualities like respect ...