NBA star Kevin Love's uncle, Mike Love, is a founding member of which rock band?

NBA star Kevin Love’s uncle, Mike Love, was a founding member of The Beach Boys. Mike helped form the California band with his cousins Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson and their friend Al Jardine in Hawthorne, California, in 1961.

The family connection runs through Kevin Love’s father, Stan Love, a former NBA player who was Mike Love’s younger brother. That makes Mike the uncle of the basketball player, while Brian Wilson and the other Wilson brothers were Kevin’s cousins once removed through the same extended family connection.

The Beach Boys became famous for layered vocal harmonies and songs about Southern California youth, surfing, cars, and romance. Mike Love was a prominent vocalist and lyricist, co-writing or co-crediting songs including “California Girls,” “I Get Around,” and “Good Vibrations.” He is sometimes mistaken for merely a later touring member, but he was present from the band’s beginning.