Miami Heat's Erik Spoelstra Explains The Love For Basketball In The Philippines
Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra has coached in many hostile environments throughout his career.
None of the experience perhaps compares to when he visits the Philippines for a basketball clinic. He talked about it during an appearance on ESPN's Cassidy Hubbarth's podcast.
“We showed up one place and there must have been 8 to 10,000 people there," Spoelstra said. "And probably there’s thousands of kids. So we pull up in the bus, they’re rocking our bus and everything and there’s no way security could stop them. So somehow we tried to like carve out a court and do a clinic with the kids. And as soon as we were done with the clinic, they just swarmed us. And they just wanted pictures, selfies, and autographs from everybody on the staff. And it got to the point where [assistant David Fizdale] and my other assistant, Chet Kammerer, were signing kids foreheads. They didn’t even have pieces of paper. There was nothing to sign. So we had pens and sharpies. They’re just signing kids heads.”
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