Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra is ranked as the best coach in the NBA according to a national website report that was released Monday morning.
Sam Quinn of CBS Sports ranked the coaches from worst to first. Los Angeles Lakers’ coach J.J. Redick was ranked as the worst coach, even before his first game.
Quinn said Spoelstra was “The Undisputed King”. He cited how Spoelstra always has his team prepared for the playoffs. A Spoelstra coached team has only gone down 2-0 in three of his 34 playoff series.
The report also said every coach in the league has strengths and weaknesses. For Spoelstra, Quinn could not find any glaring weaknesses.
“If Spoelstra has a weakness, it’s not readily apparent,” Quinn said in the report. “I guess his teams don’t take quite as many 3s as they should, but that has more to do with his rosters than strategy, and they make up for it by playing the sort of egalitarian offense most coaches dream of.”
The report also stated Spoelstra teams are always well prepared, regardless of the roster. Quinn also said Spoelstra gets the most out of his players, whether they are first-round draft choices or undrafted free agents.
“”Whether it’s first round picks or undrafted free agents, no team does a better job of developing its talent than Miami,” Quinn said. “And no team’s free agents fall off after leaving quite as often as Miami’s do.”
MIAMI (AP) — Erik Spoelstra and the Miami Heat have agreed on a contract extension, ensuring that the longest-tenured coach in franchise history only keeps adding to his team records for many years to come.
Spoelstra signed an eight-year extension worth around $120 million — the largest contract in NBA history in terms of total value for a coach — according to a person with knowledge of the agreement who spoke Tuesday to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the terms were not revealed publicly.
Spoelstra’s current deal expires after this season.
Spoelstra is in his 16th season as head coach in Miami and his 29th season overall with the franchise. He started in the video room and eventually becoming a scout, an assistant coach and then Pat Riley’s hand-picked successor as head coach in April 2008.
Spoelstra was 24 when he arrived in Miami. He’s 53 now and has three NBA championship rings, two of them coming as Miami’s head coach. He has taken the Heat to the NBA Finals six times, including last season.
