Good question, and ooh, there are plenty, just a few off the top of my head...
-Agree that I love Bowen (though I wanted to kill him while he was holding our swingmen on Friday). He could play for me any day.
-Rip Hamilton: right there with Ray as the best in the game at moving without the ball.
-Courtney Lee: just plays smart basketball. Nice shooter, too.
-sw
Interesting. High marks for admitting these, because i (and many) love to hate both Bowen (evil streak) and Rip Hamilton (arrogance.....perceived, that is). I also love to hate Lamar odom (therefore another excellent admission for this thread)....
I don't think I love any of the classically hated, except maybe Varejao, but he's not very hated, I think....(I did love J. Dumars, Isiah Thomas and sometimes Rodman (dangerously high love quotient for those bad boy Celtic enemies...) Also loved Magic J. and Cooper...and K.A.J. moderately) I have NO LOVE for today's main Celtic foes: Kobe, Lebron, D Howard, Duncan, etc....Oh, I do love Billups and Prince.
Back to the love:
Less obvious love: Varejao, Barbosa, Anthony Randolph, Antawn Jamison, Caron Butler, Biedrins, M Ellis, Craig Smith,
More obvious love: Big Al, D West, Chris Paul, B Roy, Durant, J. Johnson, Marvin Williams