Caleb Love 2025 NBA Draft Profile

Caleb Love 2025 NBA Draft Profile

We are less than one week away from the 2025 NBA Draft! Today, we will be previewing Arizona Caleb Love. Let’s jump right into it!

Height (no shoes): 6’2.25 (6’8.75 wingspan, 8’4 standing reach)

Weight: 202.6 lbs.

Draft Age: 23.7

Position: Guard

A five-star recruit out of Christian Brothers High School in St. Louis, Mo., Love was a top-10 recruit in the 2020 class, according to 247sports.com, including the second-best point guard behind No. 1 overall recruit Cade Cunningham. He chose North Carolina over Arizona, Indiana, Florida, Marquette and Texas, among others.

Love spent three seasons at North Carolina before initially transferring to Michigan, but a problem with transferable credits. Thus, he eventually transferred to Arizona, winning the Pac-12 player of the year last season before making an All-Big-12 team in 2024-25. He averaged 15.9 points, 3.8 rebounds, 3.4 assists and 1.1 steals over his five-year career, amassing over 2,700 points in 174 career games.

Now let’s dive into his profile!

Profile:

There were improvements that Love made throughout his five-year college career. He improved as a pick-and-roll playmaker and decision-maker, boasting a career-best 1.8 assist-to-turnover ratio as a super senior. He was more conscious about his surroundings and making ill-advised passes in places he shouldn’t have.

Defensively, Love was never super disruptive, but I liked his activity in the passing lanes, using his plus-six wingspan to his advantage. He wasn’t a great on-ball defender, but also improved in that facet by the end of his college career. He was better instinctually and knew how to use his length to his advantage.

However, the sticking point with the 6-foot-3 guard is his shot selection. Throughout his collegiate career, he always showed that there was never a shot he didn’t like. To a certain extent, I love the confidence he has in himself, in addition to how he played in big games–especially in last year’s NCAA Tournament. He was excellent against Oregon and Duke in pivotal moments.

That said, Love’s field goal percentage never finished above 41.3 percent while his 3-point percentage was never above 36.0 percent. The latter isn’t bad, but he was a career 32.6 3-point shooter. I always thought he was efficient on spot-up looks, but he carried a 25.9 percent usage rate or greater in each of his five seasons; he was never off-ball, so he always lived with a contested shot diet.

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I thought Love played with great pace and had a very quick burst and quickness when he was treading downhill. He could get to the rim with a head of steam if he wanted to. The troubling part was that he was never a very good finisher in half-court. He shot 62.1 percent at the rim as a senior, but that number dipped to 51.3 percent over his other four years, including 57.3 percent last year and 55.1 percent in the halfcourt, according to Databallr.

He had moments defensively and he had moments as a playmaker. He’s not a poor rebounder for his size, either. But he’s a very streaky shooter who was inefficient more often than not.

Projection: UDFA

You know what you’re getting with Caleb Love: A tough shot taker and a tough shot maker. To a degree, I love his confidence, but I don’t love the archetype of the player, especially since he has a lower ceiling because of his age. Thus, I have an undrafted grade on him.

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