With an assist from my ESPN.com colleague Mr. Windhorst, here's the first of what figures to be multiple dispatches this week rounding up some of the latest chatter on the personnel grapevine as the NBA's trade deadline approaches Thursday afternoon:
The Cavaliers have been adamant for weeks that Kevin Love is going nowhere, but the chatter about potential Love deals isn't going away until the deadline passes Thursday at 3 p.m. ET, since even Cavs GM David Griffin has acknowledged "that there's no such thing as untouchable."
But league sources say that the Cavs have made it clear to interested teams -- starting, of course, with the Love-hungry Boston Celtics -- that they'd covet a star in return if or when they do reach the point of letting Love go .