Stan Love, Athlete and Father of Heat’s Kevin Love, Dies at 76

Stan Love, a former professional basketball player who was the brother of the singer Mike Love of the Beach Boys and a bodyguard and caretaker of the brilliant but problematic of the band, Brian Wilson, died at age 76.

His death was announced on Sunday on Instagram by his son Kevin Love, the five times there of the NBA who plays for the Miami Heat. He did not say when his father died or specific to the cause or location, Althegh said that Mr. Love died after a long illness and that his desire for a long time was that at home. He was known for living in Lake Oswego, Ore.

Stan Love, a 9 -inch striker who had been a star player from Oregon University, was generally selected in the Draft of the National Basketball Association of 1971 by Baltimore Ballets, the predecessors of the Washington Wizards. He averaged 6.6 points and 3.9 rebounds per game with a modest game time for four seasons with the bullets and the Los Angeles of the NBA and the San Antonio Spurs, after the American Basketball Association.

When his career in basketball ended, Mr. Love became Brian Wilson’s caregiver in the seventies and seventies, the duration of a turbulent period for Mr. Wilson, his cousin, whose innovative composition of songs and style for sophisticated harmonies was complicated by the use of drugs and mental illness.

Mr. Love said he toured the Beach Boys for approximately five years. He described that period to Portland Tribune in 2019 as chaotic.

“It was 24 hours a day of worry, trying to keep the drag remote away,” he said. “Fame and money in Rock-And-Roll, everything is a very dangerous area to live.”

In his 1986 book, “Heroes and Villains: the true story of the Beach Boys,” Steven Gaines described an incident of January 1982 in which Mr. Love said that he was told that Brian needed protection of his brother Dennis, the drummer of Beach Boys, who according to the reports supplied Brian with Cocaine.

Mr. Love and another bodyguard, Rushton Pamplin, known as Rocky, told Mr. Gaines who had posed as police officers, broke into Dennis Wilson’s house in Venice Beach, California, and beat him. Mr. Love called it “one of the most brutal beatings in history.”

Dennis Wilson pressed the charges, according to the winning book, which led to a judicial hearing. Mr. Love accumulated $ 750 and Mr. Pamplin $ 250. Both were put on probation of six months. Rest training orders against them and Dennis Wilson were made.

Dennis died drowning after a day of alcohol consumption in 1983. Mr. Pamplin, former university football model, died in 2022.

“Brian is a very fragile individual with many mental challenges,” Love told Portland Tribune. “For some to give access to cocaine, that pissed off.

“People get what they deserve,” he added. “Dennis was one of the most problematic people I find.”

On May 7, 1990, Mr. Love presented a petition that sought to become Brian Wilson’s curator. In a tumultuous press conference that day, as reported by Los Angeles Times, Love said that Mr. Wilson had “washed the brain” and that his psychotherapist, Eugene Landy, could not take care of his own personal and commercial matters.

Mr. Love said he could not reach Mr. Wilson on the phone, and that the mother herself and two daughters of Mr. Wilson had not been able to spend more than five hours with him in the last five years.

“I feel that Brian is being held hostage,” he said.

Brian Wilson entered the press conference and refuted Mr. Love’s disputes, calling them “scandalous.”

“I feel great, and my life has returned to normal,” Wilson told journalists. “I see who I want to see, and I am in charge of my own life.”

Mr. Landy, a clinical psychologist who was widely known as the “reduced to the stars,” used an immersive technique in which he and his team essentially supervised Mr. Wilson’s life 24 hours a day, including the rowing of his refrigerator.

He was attributed to Mr. Landy to help Mr. Wilson organize a return in the early 1980s and criticized to hint so much in the life of Mr. Wilson that he began to act as his commercial partner and record producer and occasionally the song of song composition. In 1992, in the liquidation of a lawsuit filed by Mr. Wilson’s family, Mr. Landy was prohibited by court order to contact Mr. Wilson. Mr. Landy died in 2006.

In the 2016 memories, “Good vibrations: my life as a beach boy”, written with James S. Hirsch, Mike Love said that his brother Stan moved with Mr. Wilson at the end of the 1970s and used his sense of discipline as a athlete to apply the “hard love”, “shouting Brian about the fat and lazy man who was and how he had to get his life in the order.”

But Mr. Wilson’s drug appetite remained without equal. When Stan Love showed, Mike Love wrote, Mr. Wilson sometimes slipped into his robe and horsetop in search of drugs. Once he was collected and brought home by the presenter of the Merv Griffin interview program.

In his own memories, “it would not be pleasant: my own story” (1991, with Todd Gold), Mr. Wilson accused Stan Love and Mr. Pamplin of making his life “hell” shouting and trying to intimidate him while they wanted to stop using drugs and put themselves in a better physical form.

But Mr. Wilson also remembered his two bodyguards that rescued him after he taught an excessive pill or sleep. In another incident, he said, Mr. Love once helped relive it when Mr. Wilson remained semi -conscious and drowning in his vomit after taking heroine.

“We are offering our love and our help,” said Mr. Wilson citing Mr. Love.

Mr. Love denied having mistreated Mr. Wilson. And the veracity of Mr. Wilson’s book was widely disputed. Mike Love filed a defamation lawsuit against Harpercollins, which published the book, and made up of the $ 1.5 million reported. The efforts to communicate with him to comment were not successful.

In 2024, Mr. Wilson was placed in a curator after the death of his wife, Melinda. His commercial representatives had requested a California court, indicating that he had an “important neurocognitive disorder” and diagnosed his leg with dementia.

Jean Sievers, manager and co-curator of Mr. Wilson, said in an interview on Tuesday that “anything in that book that would say it is questionable.”

Stanley S. Love was born on April 9, 1949 and grew in the Southern Barrio de los Ángeles de Baldwin Hills. His father, Milton, was a union sheet worker. His mother, Emily Glee (Wilson) Love, who sang and performed the piano, was Murry Wilson’s sister, Brian’s father, Carl and Dennis Wilson.

In addition to his son Kevin and his brother, Mr. Love’s survivors include his wife, Karen; Another son, Collin; And a daughter, Emily.

Mr. Love was a three -year headline for the Basketball team of the University of Oregon and became the school leader of the school at noted points, a record that has since been overcome since then. But music was also popular among family from childhood. He told Los Angeles Times that a cello, a harp and a Steinway piano appeared the living room. “We gathered and sang,” he said. “My mother pushed the arts. I saw the opera in the Hollywood Bowl at age 12.”

Alain delquérière Contributed research.