Spoelstra news...

OK so on top of steering the hullabaloo that is the Miami heat, apparently our distinguished alumnus has also been spending a lot of time working in the Phillipines (His mom's native country) doing coaching clinics and whatnot, and now he's gonna be doing work with the one and only Manny Pacquiao. Pretty cool.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamiheat/news/story?id=5781043

Just spotted this on the UP facebook profile, pretty cool little video about Spoelstra:

Here' Another good article about Spoelstra And his dad and grandfather from Jonathan Abrams in the NYT.

Enjoy.

http://espn.go.com/nba/truehoop/miamiheat/story/_/id/7360189/miami-heat-coach-erik-spoelstra-gets-new-contract-pat-riley-says

Eric re-ups! He'll probably be able to buy a round of Pliny for the PN crew.

"We have one of the great young coaches in the league and (he) is an absolute member of this family," Heat president Pat Riley said. "He's the perfect coach for this team now. The reason why we did it was to extend him and keep him in the family and (not) have somebody come steal him away from us."


Spoelstra has been with the team for 17 years, starting in the video room and working his way up. He became one of the youngest head coaches in the league when he was promoted from assistant to replace Riley on the bench in 2008. In the past three seasons, Spoelstra has posted a record of 148-98 and made the playoffs each year, going 18-15 in the postseason.

He had been one of the lowest-paid coaches, earning a base salary of less than $2 million per season. He twice had his salary reduced as part of franchise-wide cost-cutting measures, once in 2009 and once during the recent lockout.

Here's an article about Spoelstra, and how he's implementing a wholesale change to the Heat offense, based on the principles of Chip Kelly! Chip Kelly - Erik Spoelstra

up7587 wrote:Here's an article about Spoelstra, and how he's implementing a wholesale change to the Heat offense, based on the principles of Chip Kelly! Chip Kelly - Erik Spoelstra

Lesson 1: The Ducks play for FOUR quarters. Just saying...