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Miami Heat's Erik Spoelstra Explains The Love For Basketball In The Philippines

Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra recently spoke his basketball experiences in The Philippines
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Miami Heat's Erik Spoelstra Explains The Love For Basketball In The Philippines
Miami Heat's Erik Spoelstra Explains The Love For Basketball In The Philippines

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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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Shandel has covered the NBA since 2010, with previous stops at The Athletic and South Florida Sun-Sentinel. He has covered six NBA Finals, one Super Bowl, the NCAA basketball tournament. He has also been a beat writer for the Miami Hurricanes and contributed on every major beat in South Florida since 2003, including the Miami Dolphins and Miami Marlins. He can also be read in the Sportsbook Review for gambling coverage from around the NBA. A native of Bloomington, Illinois, Shandel attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He's also worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and Kansas City Star. TWITTER: @ShandelRich EMAIL: shandelrich@gmail.com You can subscribe to our YouTube channel here Follow all of our Miami Heat coverage on Facebook here

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