Tag: Erik Spoelstra
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Leveling up: How Nikola Jokic manages to get better and better year after year
A tweak or two on each end has helped make the seemingly impossible plausible. Whether it’s more zone defense and different pick-and-roll coverage on defense or increased 3-point attempts and more time spent operating at the elbow on offense, Nikola Jokic has managed to elevate his game to another level to start his 11th season…
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David Adelman, Denver Nuggets draw first blood against family friend Erik Spoelstra’s Heat
The days of David Adelman tagging along are long gone. “I went to college with Kathy. She’s been a phenomenal high school girls coach for many years in Portland,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said of Adelman’s older sister prior to Wednesday’s game against the Nuggets at Ball Arena. “I was really close with RJ. Then,…