Kevin Love story with interesting snippet

In last week's Sports Illustrated, one of the featured stories was on Kevin Love, Stan Love's son who plays on the Minnesota Timberwolves. This section is about halfway through:

To outsiders, the Loves were charmed, but Kevin had a different perspective. Stan would tell him stories about life in the NBA and life with the Beach Boys, forever framed as cautionary tales. Some were about Stan himself, how he could have lasted longer in the league if he worked on his craft every summer instead of partying on the beach. But most were about another affable prodigy named Brian Wilson.
When Stan retired from the NBA in 1975, the Beach Boys hired him to move in with Wilson, Stan's first cousin and the band's brilliant but fragile songwriter. "Kevin used to ask me what Brian was like at his age", Stan says. "He was Tom Brady and John Elway rolled into one, smart and good-looking, the perfect All American guy." But by the time Stan went to work with Wilson, he also had schizoaffective disorder and was a drug addict who weighed more than 300 pounds. He was so steeped in depression he rarely left his bedroom. Recalls Stan, "When I found him, he was catatonic on the floor."
Stan's responsibilities included driving Wilson to his many Doctor's appointments and keeping LSD and cocaine out of his hands. "I had to get in the way of the Hollywood creeps who were telling him, 'Brian, you're so great, here's another bag of coke, ' Stan says. He tried to rehabilitate Wilson the only way he knew, with basketball. They played pickup games at Pauley Pavillion, and Wilson began to lose weight, developing a passable jumper. But progress was slow. Once, a friend rushed into Wilson's house in Beverly Hills to alert Stan that a homeless man wearing nothing but a robe was standing in the middle of the street, bumming cigarettes from passing cars. "Oh, No', Stan said, "That's Brian."
In 1983 Wilson's first wife, Marilyn, found him a new caretaker. Eugene Landy was a self-proclaimed "psychologist to the stars" who moved in with Wilson for the better part of a decade, co writing songs and partnering in a record company. Wilson grew estranged from his family and changed his will to make Landy the primary beneficiary, even after Landy lost his medical license in California for unlawfully prescribing medication. Stan filed suit against Landy in 1990, claiming he had had brainwashed Wilson, and a year later a court-appointed conservator was put in control of Wilson's affairs.
Wilson eventually extricated himself from Landy, but the episode made a lasting impact on the Loves. Stan was a Southern California original-his mother, Emily, lived on the beach in San Clemente for four years during the Great Depression-but he had seen what L.A.'s drug culture did to Brian, and he could not take the same risks with his own children. When Kevin was two, the family moved out of their house overlooking the ocean in Pacific Palisades and relocated to Lake Oswego. "What we learned from all those stories", says Kevin's older brother, Collin, "was how not to do things".

For those of who don't follow the NBA, Kevin Love is turning into something of a stud player. He's on pace to be the first player since Moses Malone in 1983 to average 20 points and 15 rebounds a game. He's already had a 30 point, 30 rebound game this year.

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