The Latest Breaking News from Erik Spoelstra

With Erik Spoelstra there seemingly always is a late-season twist, sometimes offered by the Miami Heat coach shortly before the postseason, sometimes unveiled at the start of the playoffs.

MIAMI — This was well after Chris Bosh was honored at midcourt Friday night at FTX Arena for his induction prior to the season into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

An argument is this truly could be a case to where to the Victor goes the spoils.

NEW YORK — Two-time NBA championship-winning head coach Erik Spoelstra still believes the Nets have enough time to build the chemistry needed to win a championship this season. And in the first half of Kevin Durant’s return to the rotation after a month-and-a-half nursing a sprained MCL, you could see…

NEW YORK — There was so much working against the Miami Heat in Brooklyn: The Heat’s fifth game in seven nights while missing three starters against a Nets team welcoming back superstar Kevin Durant from injury.

As his team finishes decompressing amid this weeklong All-Star break, Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra appreciates that it soon will be time to recompress.

On a night where the NBA’s superstars were on the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse court for the NBA All-Star Game, Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra found himself star-struck by the league’s elder statesmen, who gathered in Cleveland for the league’s 75th-anniversary celebration.

Erik Spoelstra was handed the reins to the Miami Heat after his mentor, Pat Riley, decided to step down from coaching after 11 seasons as the Heat’s coach. When he stepped down, Riley called Spoelstra a “man that was born to coach.”

So why now, nine months after quadriceps surgery, is Victor Oladipo practicing for the first time in a five-on-five setting? Because, Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra quipped Thursday, he does not see the need for six-on-six work.