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Erik Spoelstra Bio

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Erik Spoelstra

Erik Celino Spoelstra (born November 1, 1970 in Evanston, Illinois) is a Filipino-American basketball coach. He is currently the head coach of the NBA’s Miami Heat.

He is the first Filipino-American head coach in the NBA, as well as the first Filipino-American head coach of any North American professional sports team.

From 2001 to 2008, he served as Assistant Coach/Director of Scouting for the team. He coached the Heat to 90 wins and two playoff runs in his two years as coach.

His father, Jon Spoelstra, was an NBA Executive for the Portland Trail Blazers, Denver Nuggets, Buffalo Braves and New Jersey Nets. His mother, Elisa Celino is from San Pablo, Laguna in the Philippines.

Spoelstra grew up in Portland, Oregon, where he graduated from Jesuit High School in 1988 and from the University of Portland in 1992. At Jesuit High School, Spoelstra is third all-time in assists (488), tied for third in three-pointers made (156) and sixth in both three-point percentage (.384) and free throw percentage (.824).

At the University of Portland, Spoelstra was the Pilots’ starting point guard for four years, averaging 9.2 points, 4.4 assists and 2.4 rebounds per game, and was named the West Coast Conference Freshman of the Year. He is a member of Portland’s 1,000-point club.

After graduation from college, he spent two years as a player/coach for TuS Herten (later the Herten Ruhr Devils), a German professional team.

Spoelstra joined the Heat staff in 1995 as the team’s video coordinator. After two years, he was named assistant coach/video coordinator, then promoted to assistant coach/advance scout in 1999. He became the assistant coach/director of scouting in 2001.

He was cited by Sports Illustrated (May 30, 2005) for honing star guard Dwyane Wade’s “shooting balance and smoothing out his release after the Flash’s return from the Athens Olympics.”

In April 2008, Spoelstra was named successor to Pat Riley as head coach of the Miami Heat.

In naming Spoelstra as head coach, Riley said:  ”This game is now about younger coaches who are technologically skilled, innovative and bring fresh new ideas. That’s what we feel we are getting with Erik Spoelstra. He’s a man that was born to coach.”

Pat Riley plans to change his approach from when Stan Van Gundy was the coach.

Riley predicted:  ”A lot of players want the discipline; they will play [hard] for Spoelstra, because they respect him.’”

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“You want the title? Come and get it.”

Dwade: 32 pts., 10 assists, 7 rebounds, 1 steal

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MIAMI HEAT (97) VS. MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES (81)

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FINAL SCORES: MIAMI HEAT (97) VS. MINNESOTA TIMBERWOLVES (81).

Dwade 32, LBJ 20, Ray Allen 13, C. Bosh 11, C. Andersen 6, M. Chalmers 4, N. Cole 4, S. Battier 3, U. Haslem 2.

Rebounds: 48-39 Heat; LBJ 10, C. Bosh 9, C. Andersen 7

Assists: Dwade 10, LBJ 4

BREAKING THE FRANCHISE RECORD. 15TH CONSECUTIVE WINS

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) – Alonzo Mourning never did it. Shaquille O’Neal didn’t, either. Even Dwyane Wade had never won 15 games in a row as a member of the Miami Heat.

The Heat have had their fair share of stars come through South Beach over the last 25 years, none of them as bright as LeBron James.

Wade had 32 points, 10 assists and seven rebounds, James shrugged off a sore left knee to score 20 points and grab 10 rebounds, and the Heat earned their franchise-record 15th straight victory with a 97-81 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Monday night.

”Any time you get an opportunity set a record, it’s great for the organization and the guys involved,” James said.

”But we want to keep going. We want to keep winning each game by itself. We don’t talk about the streak, we just go to the next game and play it out. We look forward to the next one.”

Chris Bosh added 11 points and nine rebounds, and James played 35 minutes despite being listed as a game-time decision with a twisted left knee.

Derrick Williams had 25 points and 10 rebounds and Ricky Rubio had 14 points, eight assists, six steals and five rebounds for the Timberwolves.

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MIAMI HEAT (99) VS. NY KNICKS (93) HIGHLIGHTS VIDEO

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FINAL SCORES: MIAMI HEAT (99) VS. NY KNICKS (93) March 3

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FINAL SCORES: MIAMI HEAT (99) VS. NY KNICKS (93).

LBJ 29, Dwade 20, C. Bosh 16, S. Battier 12, Ray Allen 7, M. Chalmers 6, U. Haslem 4, N. Cole 4.

Rebounds: 41-40 Heat

14TH CONSECUTIVE WINS. Do the Harlem Shake in Harlem, New York. Nothing’s gonna stop us now …

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LeBron James soars above $1 million dunk offers and other distractions

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LeBron James soars above $1 million dunk offers and other distractions

NEW YORK – As LeBron James lifted higher and higher, he cocked the ball behind his head and reached back further inside Madison Square Garden.

Pass stolen, Carmelo Anthony doubled over in angst, and James had come to deliver the perfect punctuation on one more peerless performance.

Higher and higher, James elevated in the final seconds of a virtuoso victory over the New York Knicks on Sunday.

Higher and higher over purposeless debates of financial ransoms for pointless dunk contests, higher and higher over a sport that struggles to find context and comparison for the way with which his greatness has separated him, LeBron James floats above it all: untouchable and impenetrable.

These final minutes of a 99-93 victory were pure genius inside the Garden – the scoring and passing and devastating defense leaving him with 29 points, 11 rebounds, seven assists, three steals and a block.

Out of an athlete for the centuries, this has been a season for the ages.

Fourteen straight victories for the Heat, and the Knicks were left understanding the truth: Only way they’ll beat Miami in the playoffs would’ve come in the third quarter when James tumbled out of the sky, onto the floor and clutched his left knee.

Only way is if James doesn’t get up again. Only he did on Sunday – and destroyed the Knicks.

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Heat rally past Knicks, win 14th straight

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NEW YORK (AP) – LeBron James stretched his arm above the rim, soaring high on a shaky knee and turning his steal into a finishing dunk as Carmelo Anthony hung his head near midcourt.

The Heat took the Knicks’ best shot, but it wasn’t good enough to beat the defending champs.

Nothing is right now.

James had 29 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, and Miami tied a franchise record with its 14th straight victory, rallying for a 99-93 victory at New York on Sunday.

”We feel like this is one of our better wins of the season, even under the circumstances that we went through tonight, a little adversity being down double digits,” James said.

Dwyane Wade added 20 points, eight rebounds and eight assists for the Heat, who had to overcome a 16-point deficit to beat the Knicks for the first time in three tries this season.

Chris Bosh bounced back from a dismal first half to finish with 16 points and Shane Battier hit all four 3-point attempts to score 12.

The Heat won their sixth straight on the road by controlling the final minutes against a team that had a pair of 20-point victories over them this season and looked ready to run them out of the building again.

But James shook off a third-quarter leg injury and was back in top form by the finish, putting it away by coming up with a steal and throwing down a dunk with 23 seconds left.

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Despite strong position in East, Miami Heat has score to settle with Knicks

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Despite strong position in East, Miami Heat has score to settle with Knicks

NEW YORK – Really, if you trim away the fat – and there are pounds and pounds of excess here in the next two months – only a few games left on the schedule still actually interest the Heat. Here they are:

• Sunday against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden.

• Next Sunday in Miami against the Pacers.

• March 30, at San Antonio.

• April 2, against the Knicks in Miami.

• Maybe, depending on Derrick Rose, a couple games against the Bulls (March 27 and April 14).

And that’s it. Everything else is white noise, an ongoing “maintenance program” until the playoffs begin.

Sure, LeBron James and Dwyane Wade will offer lip service to every foe, but the team’s focus will be limited the majority of the time. Based on the end of the 2011-2012 regular season, that’s the truth of it.

Based on such a scarcity of meaningful games, it all makes Sunday’s game against the Knicks all the more interesting.

The Heat has walked away from New York in the conference standings, but there was still a feeling of unfinished business Friday night.

Shortly after its victory against the Grizzlies, the Heat’s attention shifted to the Knicks, its main Eastern Conference rival, a potential playoff opponent and the team that has dominated Miami like no other this season.

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