Coach Erik Spoelstra signs fresh multi-year contract with Miami Heat
Erik Spoelstra has been with the Miami Heat for nearly two decades and their relationship is unlikely to end soon. Spoelstra had signed a multi-year extension to remain as coach of the two-time defending NBA champions, the team said.
Erik Spoelstra has been with the Miami Heat for nearly two decades and their relationship is unlikely to end soon.
Spoelstra had signed a multi-year extension to remain as coach of the two-time defending NBA champions, the team said.
The move comes a day after the Heat announced several other front-office moves, including the promotion of Andy Elisburg to general manager and hiring Juwan Howard as an assistant coach.
An NBA source said the Heat had never had any intention of letting Spoelstra go. He had one season remaining on his existing contract, a deal that the sides agreed to in 2011.
"I want Spo here for a long, long time," Heat president Pat Riley said last season.
Spoelstra is 260-134 in his first five seasons with Miami, going to the play-offs in each of those years, the NBA finals in each of the past three and winning the title last year and this year.
His résumé suggests that he is already well on the path to a Hall of Fame honour. Only 12 other men in NBA history won multiple championships as a coach, and only seven others have collected rings in back-to-back years.