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Old 05-03-2008, 07:23 PM
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Re: Riley resigns as head coach.

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Originally Posted by Dumars4Ever View Post
The Heat promoted one of their assistants, Erik Spoelstra, who's now the youngest head coach in the league (37). As long as Riley is hovering around there, they'll never be able to hire any established head coaches. Nobody wants to be in a position of knowing that if they do a good job and actually win, they'll get rewarded with a pink slip from the glory-hogging egomaniac in the front office who'll find some new excuse for pushing them out of the way.

His father / grandfather? Watson Spoelstra, was a sports writer for the Detroit News back in the 60s. He was the president of the BBWAA.
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