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Erik Spoelstra Bio

Posted by Spoelstra Heat | Posted on 30-07-2010

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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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Anthony out for Knicks; Wade returns for Heat

Posted by Spoelstra Heat | Posted on 28-01-2012

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Anthony out for Knicks; Wade returns for Heat

MIAMI (AP) – Carmelo Anthony is hurting. Dwyane Wade no longer is.

Anthony sat out the New York Knicks’ game at Miami on Friday night, a contest where Wade made his return to the starting lineup after a six-game absence to recover from a sprained right ankle.

Anthony is dealing with an array of thumb, wrist and ankle problems.

“I’ve just got to be smart,” Anthony said Friday morning.

“I think I was trying to be a superhero and trying to prove to my teammates that I can play hurt, trying to hide it. But at the end of the day me doing that, it wasn’t really doing nothing but hurting the team. … Me being limited out there on the court, it wasn’t doing anything for me, for my psyche, for my body. It was just making it worse.”

In other words, perhaps Anthony is taking his cue from how Wade dealt with his most recent injury.

Wade was injured in Denver two weeks ago and was listed day to day throughout his absence. He returned to on-court conditioning several days ago, went through a hard pregame workout in Detroit on Wednesday night, then did more work in Miami on Thursday and participated in the team’s shootaround practice Friday morning.

“He’s healthy,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said of Wade. “He’s ready to go. … We were very, very patient with this.”

The Heat are 8-1 without Wade this season. After seeing Wade work Friday morning, Heat teammate LeBron James seemed impressed.

“He looks good,” James said. “He looks like he’s about ready to play.”

Anthony hasn’t looked his best for a while.

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By TIM REYNOLDS, AP Sports Writer

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Preview: New York (7-11) at Miami (13-5)

Posted by Spoelstra Heat | Posted on 28-01-2012

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Preview: New York (7-11) at Miami (13-5)

The latest injury to Carmelo Anthony is just another concern the New York Knicks must deal with as they try to break out of their current rough stretch.

Facing the Miami Heat likely won’t make things any easier.

The struggling Knicks could have a hard time Friday night trying for a third consecutive victory over a Heat team looking for its third straight win overall.

Losers in seven of its last eight games and still seeking cohesiveness, New York (7-11) could be the NBA’s biggest early disappointment.

“I can’t really put my finger on it right now,” Anthony said. “I can’t figure it out.”

In addition to a sprained wrist and ankle, Anthony also is now dealing with an injured right thumb.

That latest injury plagued Anthony as he went 0 for 7 from the field and finished with one point during a 111-78 rout of Charlotte on Tuesday.

The next night at Cleveland, he scored 15 points while shooting 5 of 14. While his performance was a bit better, the Knicks could not overcome another subpar game from their star and lost 91-81.

“There’s no frustration,” Anthony said of his health. “I’m thinking about my body. There’s a lot going through my mind right now. It’s a tough situation right now due to the circumstances, but I’ll get it figured out. I’ll tell you that.”

Averaging 26.0 points in 15 career games against the Heat, Anthony had 29 and nine rebounds in a 91-86 win at Miami on Feb. 27, less than a week after the Knicks acquired him from Denver.

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By JEFF MEZYDLO, STATS Senior Writer

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Comeback kid: Curry eager for Heat-Knicks

Posted by Spoelstra Heat | Posted on 27-01-2012

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Comeback kid: Curry eager for Heat-Knicks

MIAMI (AP) – Over the past month, Eddy Curry has toned his body and toned down the rhetoric.

When he signed with the Miami Heat, Curry made no secret that games against one opponent were already circled on his calendar. That opponent was none other than the New York Knicks.

The Knicks paid him about $30 million to basically not play over an three-year stint where his ballooning weight and series of personal issues seemed to be bringing his basketball career to an end.

“I’m looking forward to it,” Curry said in mid-December, just as training camp was starting in Miami. “Looking forward to it. That’s all I’ll say.”

A little over a month later, Curry is a smaller man – he says he’s lost 35 pounds in the last few weeks, raising his total to 65 by his count since starting his comeback attempt, though some estimates suggest he’s dropped even more.

And when asked these days about the Knicks, who visit Miami on Friday for the first of three matchups this season, Curry’s aiming to be a bigger man by insisting the game will not carry any extra significance.

“Every game is no more important than the other until the playoffs come,” Curry said, the No. 4 overall pick in the 2001 draft trying to pretend that he wasn’t aware a matchup against the Knicks was looming. “Whoever we play, I’ll be up for it. Looking forward to it.”

Curry is hardly all the way back, just back on the floor on occasion. He’s appeared in three games with the Heat, scoring six points in 21 minutes. Miami signed him with the long-term in mind, knowing that his weight issues were not fully in check and that there would surely be some rust to shake off his game after appearing in only 10 NBA contests over a three-year span.

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Chris Bosh no longer the odd man in Miami Heat’s Big 3

Posted by Spoelstra Heat | Posted on 27-01-2012

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Chris Bosh no longer the odd man in Miami Heat’s Big 3

After struggling to fit in last season with the Heat, Chris Bosh is finding his rhythm and emerging as a leader.

To say that Chris Bosh is merely enjoying his best stretch with the Heat would be to over simply the significance of his recent development.

The guy is shooting 71.1 percent over his past two games and hasn’t missed a three-pointer or a free throw.

Bosh made his first seven shots on Wednesday against Detroit, finishing with 27 points on 12-of-15 shooting. He was 1 of 1 from three-point range (2 of 2 in his past two games) and 2 of 2 from the free-throw line (16 of 16 in his past two games).

He scored 62 points in the Heat’s back-to-back games against the Cavaliers and Pistons and is averaging 26.7 points since Dwyane Wade went down with a sprained ankle.

“He’s just being aggressive – not thinking, taking the game on his shoulders and being the player that he’s capable of being,” forward Udonis Haslem said.

“Sometimes I think when Dwyane is in or all the Big 3 guys are together, he has a tendency to be a little passive, and I think he’s just being aggressive now.”

Bosh’s development goes beyond the numbers, Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. The Heat’s power forward has emerged as a bona fide team leader in the six games without Wade.

“The most powerful thing that he did [Tuesday] – and everyone looks at the 35 points and the 17 points he scored in the fourth quarter – but the thing I noticed the most is his disposition and his voice to start the second half,” Spoelstra said after the Heat’s victory over the Cavaliers on Tuesday night.

“We needed a spark, and he was very loud with all the defensive rotations.

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Lockout Fallout

Posted by Spoelstra Heat | Posted on 27-01-2012

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LOCKOUT FALLOUT

Wednesday marks the one-month mark of the lockout-shortened season, and several consequences of the compressed campaign have already come to light.

Field-goal shooting, free-throw shooting and three-point shooting in the NBA are all down at least 15 percent. Turnovers have increased by an average of .8 per game, the largest jump in 29 years.

Bosh said that in addition to the increased miscues, players have less time to learn from their mistakes.

“We have to really pay attention to film, you have to pick things up on the fly, you’re not always able to go through live situations all the time,” Bosh said.

“It’s a moment where you have to use your experience as a basketball player and pick things up without actually practicing them.”

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Miami Heat’s Eddy Curry back in shape with help from Dwyane Wade, LeBron James

Posted by Spoelstra Heat | Posted on 27-01-2012

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Miami Heat’s Eddy Curry back in shape with help from Dwyane Wade, LeBron James

So much freedom. So much temptation. It was a long lockout. There were days Eddy Curry felt hungry and tired, and the NBA seemed so very far away. What’s one handful of candy? What’s one missed workout when no one is really working or watching?

Curry thought about going to the club, thought about going to McDonald’s, thought about sleeping in late.

“But I was getting a call or email or text every other day,” he says. “When it wasn’t D-Wade, it was LeBron.”

There’s a story of friendship and love and resurrection at the center of the Miami Heat. And step by labored step, pound by shed pound, it has gathered considerable momentum and strength. Wade and James have known Curry since they were in high school, back before all the fame and riches, back when they were all just big kids connected around a basketball. Wade and Curry played together in high school and in AAU.

LeBron? Curry remembers the first time he ever saw LeBron play, and this is how he describes his reaction: My God! This is crazy! Curry was in the NBA at the time, mind you, a first-round pick and a member of the Chicago Bulls. LeBron was but a junior in high school. They were introduced by a mutual friend afterward – “Eddy, this is going to be your cousin from now on” was the introduction – and a friendship immediately blossomed.

But while Wade and James skyrocketed to superstardom, Curry gained weight, suffered tragedies and threw all his talent and money away. Fat and lazy and depressed, knees aching, he was out of the league until Wade and James started calling, telling him there was a spot for him at the center of the Heat if he would just spend those lockout months getting in shape.

STRONG MOTIVATION

Curry met with the Heat during last year’s playoffs but, in the words of coach Erik Spoelstra, he was “not ready even for any kind of workout.” Still, it is very hard to find 7-footers who are smooth and skilled around the basket, especially cheap ones, and Wade and James knew what kind of treasure was buried under 70 extra pounds of flab.

So they kept pushing and prodding their giant friend with a combination of gentle patience and tough love all offseason, telling him he was still young enough to overcome all he had squandered and endured.

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Heat 6th Most Valuable NBA Team

Posted by Spoelstra Heat | Posted on 27-01-2012

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Heat 6th Most Valuable NBA Team

MIAMI (CBSMiami) – The business of running an NBA team can get very complicated, as small market teams over the years have found out. Even for teams like Miami, turning a franchise into a money-maker is tough.

According to Forbes.com, even with the Big Three, the Miami Heat is still only the sixth most valuable franchise in the NBA. Forbes estimated that current value of the Heat to be approximately $457 million.

For comparisons sake, when Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross purchased the team, he paid roughly $1 billion for the team.

Forbes found that even with LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, and Chris Bosh, plus a NBA Finals run; the Heat only increased their year-over-year value by eight percent.

Overall, the Heat had revenue of $158 million and an operating income of approximately $26 million.

The most valuable teams, according to Forbes, were in the two biggest media markets in the United States, Los Angeles and New York. Forbes estimated the L.A. Lakers value at $900 million and the New York Knicks’ at $780 million.

If you’ve recently hit the lottery and looking for a team to purchase, the least valuable team in the NBA is the Milwaukee Bucks, which is worth around $268 million, according to Forbes.

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James’ late FTs give Heat 101-98 win over Pistons

Posted by Spoelstra Heat | Posted on 26-01-2012

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James’ late FTs give Heat 101-98 win over Pistons

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) – LeBron James scored 32 points, including the game’s last six from the free throw line, to lead the Miami Heat to a 101-98 win over the Detroit Pistons on Wednesday night.

The Heat trailed 98-95 after a 3-pointer by Detroit’s Jonas Jerebko, but James made two free throws to cut the deficit to one with 1:19 left. After Damien Wilkins fumbled the ball out of bounds for the Pistons, James drove straight at Austin Daye, drawing another foul and putting Miami up 99-98.

He made two more free throws with 9.4 seconds remaining after Detroit’s Greg Monroe missed inside.

Chris Bosh hit his first seven shots and finished with 27 points for Miami – which was without Dwyane Wade, who sat out because of a right ankle injury.

Daye scored a career-high 28 points for the Pistons.

Miami led 90-80 in the fourth quarter, but the Pistons rallied with a 12-0 run, taking the lead when rookie Brandon Knight made a midrange shot after James nearly intercepted a crosscourt pass to him.

Bosh answered with five straight points for the Heat, but Monroe scored inside while being fouled and his free throw tied the game. After a miss by Shane Battier, Jerebko made an open 3-pointer from near the top of the key to give Detroit a 98-95 advantage.

After a Miami timeout, Daye poked the ball away from James, and Knight came up with it and was fouled. But he missed both free throws, and Detroit wouldn’t score again.

Wade missed his sixth consecutive game. Heat coach Erik Spoelstra says he is still day-to-day.

Detroit’s Tayshaun Prince missed the game because of a family matter, and guard Ben Gordon was out with a sore shoulder.

James went 13 of 14 from the free throw line after entering the game shooting 73 percent. He had a 20-for-37 stretch from the line over three games earlier this month, but he looked plenty calm Wednesday with the game on the line.

Bosh handled most of the scoring early, going 6 for 6 in the first quarter with a 3-pointer.

At one point, Miami led 14-9 and Bosh had 13 points. He hurt the Pistons from the perimeter and inside, and the Heat led 24-17 after the first.

Daye did his best to respond for Detroit, scoring 18 points in the second quarter. Detroit moved the ball well on offense, and Daye made four 3-pointers in the period.

Miami led by as many as 11 in the second but had to settle for a 56-50 halftime lead after Daye’s 12-footer at the buzzer.

At the end of the third quarter, it was James’ turn to make a last-second shot. His 3-pointer gave Miami an 80-74 lead.

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Miami Heat’s double play at point guard

Posted by Spoelstra Heat | Posted on 26-01-2012

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Miami Heat’s double play at point guard

Mario Chalmers and Norris Cole were on the floor together for the final five minutes of the game, when the Heat’s offense was at its best.

One is a fourth-year veteran, battle-tested but at times mistake-prone. The other is a rookie, a first-round pick with potential but a steep learning curve in the lockout-shortened season.

The play of Mario Chalmers and Norris Cole has vacillated greatly this season, and Tuesday was no different. With Chalmers struggling, coach Erik Spoelstra pulled him in favor of the rookie. Cole provided 28 strong minutes, but he committed more than a few rookie mistakes.

Finally, with Cleveland packing the paint in the fourth quarter, Spoelstra put both Chalmers and Cole in for the game’s final five minutes. That’s when the Heat’s offense really started clicking.

“It’s like having two quarterbacks,” Cole said of the two-point-guard look. “We both know the offense, and we both have good instincts on defense.”

When Chalmers entered the game with five minutes left, the Heat was holding onto a tenuous five-point lead. Thirty seconds later, Cole hit Bosh in the corner for a crucial three-pointer.

Bosh wasn’t the first option on the set, but the fact that he ended up with the ball reinforces why the dual-point-guard look was successful. With two ballhandlers on the court, it is easier for the Heat to spread the ball.

“With two point guards in there, we can run multiple-action sets,” Spoelstra said. “Look at one action, if it’s not there, they can get the ball to the other side. If you go either way, it can go to LeBron [James’] side or the other side.

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Ben Wallace vows Pistons won’t back down facing Heat

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Ben Wallace vows Pistons won’t back down facing Heat

Auburn Hills – Ben Wallace had a front-row view of Miami Heat superstar LeBron James years ago. Wallace was traded from the Bulls to the Cavaliers, James’ former team, in the 2007-08 season and played there for the next two years.

He paused for a good five seconds when he was asked if there was anything he learned about James as a teammate.

“Um, no; he’s still the same player,” Wallace said to laughs. “Everybody looks at his talent; he’s a freak of nature. But he puts a lot of work in when the cameras go off, when no one’s looking. I’ll give him that.”

Wallace said James’ natural ability has helped him a lot, but James’ body and game have improved since he came into the NBA as a teenager. In the 2008-09 season, James won his first MVP award and led the Cavaliers to the best record in the NBA.

Wallace said James has lived up to the responsibility that comes with being a superstar.

“We’re all blessed one way as far as talent, but the ones who work hard stick out the most,” he said.

All that said, Wallace, who has had to stand up to the likes of Tim Duncan and Shaquille O’Neal in their primes, wants to see how his Piston teammates handle playing another top-tier team – this time at home – Wednesday night against 12-5 Miami.

“I think the challenge will be to ourselves,” Wallace said. “After the last game, everybody’s anxious to get back on the floor, to play with more energy and put a better product out there.”

The Pistons lost to Oklahoma City on Monday night, 99-79.

Wallace said there are no cowards in his locker room, and although he doesn’t know what Wednesday night’s result will be, he’d better not see any submissive behavior among his teammates.

“I know everybody’s gonna respond, we don’t have a choice,” Wallace said. “If we don’t respond with a lot of energy, execute and take care of the basketball, we’re gonna get embarrassed.”

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