Spoelstras teams have a 20-9 (.690) record when having an opponent on the brink of elimination, including a 12-1 (.923) mark at the Kaseya Center, and an 11-9 (.550) mark when they are on the brink of elimination. Miami coach Katie Meier draws strength from players, mom in - ESPN Leonard Hamilton - Wikipedia Conference regular season champion From the San Antonio Spurs to the Detroit Pistons, we ranked the five worst teams of the 2022-23 NBA season. Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. Now, with the core of Butler and Bam Adebayo, Spo has Miami back on the precipice of a title. University of Miami (Head Coach), 2011-present No. Spoelstra played college basketball for the University of Portland from 1988 to 1992, averaging 9.2 points and 4.4 assists per game as the Pilots starting point guard. The Hurricanes finished just one game under .500 in 2019-20, posting a 15-16 mark despite six different players missing a combined 47 games due to injury. They also narrowly lost to Wake Forest and Mississippi State, and survived a tough match at Wichita State in the ESPN-sponsored BracketBusters event. "[6] The Patriots found themselves in a 162 hole, but climbed out of it to win 6560 and advance to the regional site at the Verizon Center, about 30 minutes away from their Fairfax, Virginia campus. In 2012-13, Larraaga helped Miami to a No. After graduating from UP . Miamis 62 total road wins in the past 11 seasons are fourth-most among ACC teams during Larraagas tenure and its 102 total victories away from home place fourth. As An Assistant Coach I think the transfer portal has had a far greater impact, because I don't think any of us would be here without the transfers. The HEAT have also proven to be able to win away from home, evidenced by five straight seasons from 2009-14 that Miami posted a winning record on the road, a first in franchise history. 10 Duke in Coral Gables, as well as No. 1 seed Ohio State in the round of 32. 2010 and again in the NCAA Tournament in 2011. Larranaga has not spent his entire coaching career with Miami, however. Following his run in Germany, Spo joined the Heat as a video coordinator in 1995 and hes been with the organization ever since. Bio. Miamis victory against Georgia Tech was Larraagas 200th career game at UM, and with a 78-67 win over Columbia on Dec. 28, 2016, the University of Miami mens basketball program earned its 1,000th program victory. Virginia also made a pair of NIT appearances, winning the NIT Championship in 1980. Download Our App. After two years as video coordinator, he then served two years as an assistant coach/video coordinator. C. 25. [11][12] He attended Raleigh Hills Elementary and Whitford Jr. High School in Portland, before attending Jesuit High School in Beaverton, Oregon, where he excelled at point guard on the basketball team. Near the end of the regular season, they were briefly ranked in the Top 25 in the ESPN/USA Today poll, the school's first ranking ever, and were on the brink of making it to the Associated Press poll. He has the 20th-most regular season wins ever by a coach, trailing only Gregg Popovich, Doc Rivers, Rick Carlisle and Nate McMillan among active coaches from this season (Rivers and McMillan were fired). During his rookie season, Spoelstra led Miami to its greatest single-season improvement. But the reality of NIL is that it has given the Hurricanes a distinct and perfectly legal competitive advantage that has helped the program in taking this step. Boston Celtics v Miami Heat - Game Two MIAMI, FLORIDA - MAY 19: Boston Celtics President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens looks on prior to Game Two of the 2022 NBA Playoffs Eastern Conference Finals against the Miami Heat at FTX Arena on May 19, 2022 in Miami, Florida. UMs 29 overall and 15 ACC wins in 2012-13 stand as program-bests, as was the 14-game winning streak and 13-0 start in conference play. The Miami Heat are heading back to the NBA Finals. Assistant Athletic Trainer - Men's Basketball. Better as a coach. On April 4, 2013, Larraaga was voted the Associated Press' college basketball coach of the year. He has led the Hurricanes to four NCAA tournament appearances . Spoelstra was promoted to assistant coach/advance scout in 1999, and later became the Heat's assistant coach/director of scouting in 2001. Miami went to the NIT in his first season as the coach. Spoelstras commitment to help grow the game of basketball globally also includes serving as head coach for Team World in the NBA Africa Game 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa as part of Basketball Without Borders Africa in August 2017. Radakovich said in a phone interview Thursday that he has had some surface conversations with Larranaga on the topic. HoopGurlz 2025 Terrific 25. The 2023 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament has been whittled down to just four teams. The Patriots entered the 200506 season as a strong contender for the CAA title. A Filipino American, Spoelstra is the first Asian-American head coach in the history of the four major North American sports leagues[3][4] and the first Asian-American head coach to win an NBA title.[4]. Seeded a program-best eighth in the NCAA Tournament, George Mason rallied from a double-digit deficit to defeat ninth-seeded Villanova, 61-57, before falling to overall No. On September 29, 2013, the Heat extended Spoelstra's contract to an undisclosed multi-year deal. In each of these trips, he has hosted basketball and coaches clinics, promoted the importance of education, healthy living and wellness, while being able to reach close to 10,000 underprivileged youth through these efforts. [25] Spoelstra received a $6 million contract extension in December 2011 which lasted through the 201314 NBA season.[26]. [11] Spoelstra graduated from the University of Portland in 1992 with a degree in communications. He also was named to the ACC All-Freshman Team. Among conference teams, Miami was second in scoring defense, second in fewest fouls (15.6/g) and third in rebounding margin (+4.0). Copyright 2023 Sporting News Holdings Limited. It is one 24 victories over a top-25 foe under Larraaga, including 10two of which came in 2021-22versus a top-10 opponent. Heres a deep dive of the 52-year-old Spoelstra, including his history as a player and coach: Spoelstra took over for Pat Riley as head coach of the Heat before the 2008-09 season. Larranaga gets 2-year contract extension at Miami - WPTV 25 in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches Poll on Feb. 28 all but four victories came by a double-digit margin. Jay Larranaga, who played for his dad at Bowling Green from 1993-97, enjoyed an international basketball career through 2009. After an impressive rookie campaign, Spoelstra guided Miami to a 47-35 record in 2009-10. During its 16-game win streak which catapulted Mason to No. Other program firsts included defeating all three teams in the North Carolina Triangle in the same season, beating a trio of teams in the Top 20 since joining the ACC and hosting five home sellouts at the BankUnited Center. That season, he earned his first Coach of the Year accolades in the CAA and NABC District 4 after making a 10-game improvement and leading the program to its first-ever conference regular-season championship, its second CAA Tournament title and first NCAA Tournament appearance since 1989. He was the team's head coach until 2012 when he was hired by the Boston Celtics to become an assistant coach under Brad Stevens. Miami finished with the most wins (41) in league history of any team that had been at least 19 games under .500 at any point in a season. He has been the head coach of the men's basketball team at the University of Miami since 2011. In his final four seasons, the Patriots appeared in the postseason all four years for the first time in Mason history, advancing to the NCAA Tournament in 2008, the NIT in 2009, the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament in He recorded his 600th career victory on Jan. 14 at Pitt, making him one of five ACC coaches with at least 600 wins. In 1986, Larraaga left the University of Virginia for the head coaching job at Bowling Green State University. Under Spoelstra, the HEAT have advanced to the playoffs in 11 of his 14 seasons and have won 20 of 29 postseason series (.690 winning percentage), including a franchise-record 11 consecutive series from 2012-14. 13. Associate Director of Basketball Operations. He went on to play college basketball at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island, where he was the team captain as a senior in the 197071 season and led the Friars to a 208 record and an NIT appearance. In 1992, he graduated from the University of Portland with a degree in communications. The 10 road victories in December set a franchise record for any month and the HEAT established an NBA record for most consecutive road wins in a calendar month. [11], As of February 2011, Larraaga's 271 career wins at George Mason makes him the winningest coach in the history of both the school and the CAA. Five more seniors graduated under Larraagas watch, with the sixth senior earning both his bachelors and masters degrees the next spring. The 17-1 record in March set a franchise record for victories in any month. Larranaga has long used transfers as an asset. ACC Network FAQs The Patriots would enter the tournament as a No. All rights reserved The franchise has now made the NBA Finals in seven of the last 18 seasons. [11] He began having back problems after the end of his second year with the team, and contemplated having surgery. . James Leonard Hamilton (born August 4, 1948) is an American basketball coach and the current men's basketball head coach at Florida State University. "I have no intentions of doing that," he said when asked by ESPN if he had considered riding this run into retirement. Raised in Portland, OR, Spoelstra, who was inducted into the Jesuit High School Athletic Hall of Fame in September 2009, is the first Asian/Filipino-American head coach in any of the major North American sports leagues. The next year, the Hurricanes won the ACC regular season and tournament en route to the NCAA Tournament, at one point reaching as high as No. [13] He is a member of the school's 1,000-point club, and is among the Pilots' career leaders in several statistical categories. [6][7] Jon is Dutch-Irish-American and a former NBA executive of the Buffalo Braves, Portland Trail Blazers, Denver Nuggets, and New Jersey Nets. Three players earned postseason recognition in Larraagas first season, as Kenny Kadji was selected to the All-ACC Third Team, Durand Scott was voted an honorable mention performer and Shane Larkin earned a spot on the ACC All-Freshman Team. Spoelstra also became the eighth coach to lead his team to two straight championships. [31], On February 6, 2022, Spoelstra was named as the Eastern Conference head coach for the 2022 NBA All-Star Game. On December 16, 2017, Spoelstra got his 455th win as the head coach of the Heat and passed Riley for most wins in franchise history, when they defeated the Los Angeles Clippers 9085. 9 on NCAAs list of winningest active DI coaches Operations Specialist. In seven seasons at Virginia, Larraaga was on the bench for an NIT title in 1980 and NCAA Final Four berths in 1981 and 1984. The 200405 team, with three junior starters but dominated by freshmen and sophomores, went 1613. Miamis four-year postseason streak came to an end in 2018-19 as it played much of the season with just seven healthy scholarship players. 34 on NCAAs list of all-time winningest coaches (min. In large part due to the winning streak, the HEAT finished the second half of the 2012-13 season with a 38-3 record and lost just one game each in the months of February, March and April. [15][16][17] It was in this setting where Spoelstra got his first coaching job, as coach of the club's local youth team. [9] A week later, the Hurricanes advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament with their school record 29th win. The 2012 championship culminated a compressed 2011-12 season in which Miami went 46-20 and captured its second consecutive Southeast Division title. A 1,000-point scorer (1,343) at Miami, Reed was also named third team All-ACC and was listed on the ACCs All-Defensive Team. Jim Larranaga and Miami Have Changed With It The Final Four-bound Hurricanes and their 73-year-old coach have been on the cutting edge of a new age of. Erik Jon Spoelstra ( / spolstr / SPOHL-str; born November 1, 1970) [1] [2] is an American professional basketball coach who is the head coach for the Miami Heat of the National Basketball Association (NBA). GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA - MARCH 18: Head coach Jim Larranaga of the Miami (Fl) Hurricanes reacts after defeating the USC Trojans 68-66 during the second half in the first round game of the. Isaiah Wong earned his second straight Third Team All-ACC plaudit, while Charlie Moore picked up ACC All-Defensive Team and All-ACC Honorable Mention recognition. Miami University Athletics has hired Travis Steele as the 28th men's basketball head coach in program history Director of Athletics David Sayler announced on March 31, 2022. Terms of Service Providence He holds the franchise postseason records for victories (96), winning percentage (.596), series won (20) and games coached (161). Preston Greene. 10 North Carolina, Wichita State and No. Geronemo Basketball Club (Belgium), 1976-77, Coaching Experience . Throughout his tenure he has remained a steadying influence for his team and its paid huge dividends in return. In 1977, Larranaga was given his first chance to become a head coach, guiding the Division II program American International. Individually, Spoelstra became just the fourth head coach in NBA history to lead his team to four consecutive Finals appearances joining Red Auerbach, K.C. Larraaga became an assistant at a program that had begun to emerge as a power in the ACC, arriving at the same time as highly touted freshman Ralph Sampson. Next was a matchup against defending national champion North Carolina. In his final season at Bowling Green (199697), he led the Falcons to a regular-season co-championship in the Mid-American Conference and another NIT berth, and was also named the conference's Coach of the Year. I love coaching basketball. He is still the second-winningest coach in school history (behind only Hall of Famer Harold Anderson), as well as one of the winningest coaches in the Mid-American Conference. List of Miami Heat head coaches - Wikipedia The Canes tied for fourth in the ACC, another program-best accomplishment. Bio: ERIK SPOELSTRA | NBA.com Miamis success during the 2011-12 campaign was keyed by its defense as the HEAT finished ranked in the top five in field goal percentage defense for the third straight year. / On September 17, 2015, Spoelstra announced his engagement to former Miami Heat dancer, Nikki Sapp. Senior Cam Long was voted first team all-conference and Coach Larraaga was awarded the coach of the year. Better as a human. Prior to the game, Larraaga famously told his players: "Their fans think they're supermen. His first team only went 918, but signs of improvement were present. Spoelstras attention to detail was crucial as he guided the HEAT on an improbable run to its sixth NBA Finals appearance. Brown was named to the All-ACC Academic Team. Along the way, he led Mason to a school record in wins, its first-ever national ranking, its first-ever appearance in the Top 10 and its first wins over Top 10 teams. During the summer of 2012, Spoelstra expanded this program to include the country of Singapore. For Miami's Jim Larraaga, a Milestone 700th Win Awaits - NBC 6 South He has won two NBA championships as the head coach of the Heat. 13 on ACCs list of all-time winningest coaches (third among active coaches) How old is the Canes' head coach? Since his ascension to head coach, Miami has the second-highest regular season (best in the Eastern Conference) and fourth-highest postseason winning percentages in the NBA (second in the Eastern Conference). In the first round of news conferences at NRG Stadium at the Final Four on Thursday, there was some reluctance by Miami's players to discuss name, image and likeness deals. While attending Portland, Spoelstra was the starting point guard for four years and was named the West Coast Conference Freshman of the Year in 1989. Nijel Pack (8-12 FG, 7-10 3P) scored 26 points. / He has won CAA Coach of the Year twice, in 1999 and in 2011. 1) with each victory by double-digits. During the 201920 season, Spoelstra had again coached the Heat back to the 2020 NBA Finals before falling 42 to the Los Angeles Lakers. Travis Steele - Men's Basketball Coach - Miami University RedHawks Larranaga has seen ACC peers like Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams and Jim Boeheim all retire in recent years. Career timeline for Miami coach, Larranaga, 17 years after George Mason run, leads Miami to first Final Four, Connecticut Huskies vs Miami (FL) Hurricanes. The Canes downed the Blue Devils 78-74 in overtime that afternoon, led by 27 points and 12 rebounds from Reggie Johnson, and received votes in the next AP Poll for the first time since 2010. The following four games proved to be a test as GMU traveled to the University of Dayton, played at home versus the University of Delaware, and away at both Hofstra University and at Old Dominion University. In his second season, Larraaga led the Hurricanes to arguably their best season since the Rick Barry era, winning the ACC regular season title. One of three coaches in NCAA history with 150-plus wins at three DI schools, The Larraaga File Five individuals averaged double digits in the scoring column, including sophomore Chris Lykes placing ninth in the ACC at 16.2 points per game. Their son Jay played for his father at Bowling Green, was the head coach of the NBDLs Erie Bayhawks, and is now an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Clippers. Story Links OXFORD, Ohio - Miami University Athletics has hired Travis Steele as the 28th men's basketball head coach in program history, Director of Athletics David Sayler announced today.
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