He made the pledge on his Instagram account.
Love told ESPN via text message that he hopes others will step up and follow him in helping those who are now without income.
The Cavaliers later announced the team will come up with “a compensation plan to continue paying our event staff and hourly workforce that is impacted with the changes to our regular event schedule."
Thank you @kevinlove — coming through in the clutch 🙏
— Cleveland Cavaliers (@cavs) March 12, 2020
We’re behind you, as we also announced earlier today that we are compensating all of our @RMFieldHouse hourly and event staff team members as if every game and every event is still taking place!
Love and the Cavaliers are not the only ones making sure employees are taken care of. Mark Cuban said the employees at the Dallas Mavericks arena will get paid but he hasn’t announced how that will be done.
"I reached out to the folks at the arena and our folks at the Mavs to find out what it would cost to financially support people who aren't going to be able to come to work -- you know, they get paid by the hour, and this is their source of income," Cuban said, according to CBS Sports. "We'll do some things there. We may ask them to do some volunteer work in exchange, but we've already started the process of having a program in place. I don't have any details to give, but it's certainly something that's important to me."
Several teams told ESPN officials are trying to put together a plan to help workers who are now not earning wages.
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