Erick Spoelstra:First Asian Head Coach in NBA
Posted by buzzthem on April 30, 2008
Pat Riley the head coach in Miami heat officially announced that he will step down as a head coach and instead contribute more as the new President. HEAT Managing General Partner Micky Arison and Riley jointly announced that former Assistant Coach/Director of Scouting Erik Spoelstra has been elevated to head coach. Spoelstra becomes the sixth head coach in franchise history.
Erick Spoelstra is the first Asian who have become a NBA head coach and is the youngest of all active coaches now in the league, he is 69 days younger than the second youngest head coach, Lawrence Frank of the New Jersey Nets. A 1992 graduate from the University of Portland, Spoelstra was the starting point guard for four years for the Pilots and was named the West Coast Conference Freshman of the Year. After college he spent two years as a player/coach for Tus Herten, a team in the professional sports league of Germany. And for your information, he is half Filipino, his mom is Filipina from San Pablo, Laguna, so that means another opportunity for the Filipino to prove that we are globally competitive in the game of basketball. I hope next season of the Miami will be good and will have a great comeback from this season.
