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Interview with Erik Spoelstra | Ep 4 A King's Reign

The Athletic NBA Daily

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Nba, Sports, Nba News, News, Basketball, Sports News, Nba Draft, Comedy

4.12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 July 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In episode 4 of A King's Reign, David Aldridge speaks one-on-one with Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra about LeBron James' years in Miami: the harsh spotlight, how the team became a villain, and ultimately the successful pursuit of winning two NBA championships.


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0:00.0

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0:21.6

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0:26.3

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0:51.3

I'm the host of this series, Andrew Schlect.

0:53.9

It isn't easy being LeBron James coach.

0:56.9

I did not want to say anything to him.

0:58.7

I didn't want to think I was, I didn't want anybody, I didn't want to show anybody that I was

1:02.3

coaching by trying to draw some shit up that wasn't going to work.

1:05.5

I swear, whatever you do all LeBron, you can do it.

1:08.5

Okay, as Mike Brown details there, I guess the actual basketball part may be easy.

1:14.6

The hard part is dealing with all the attention, the scrutiny, the pressure.

1:20.0

All of a sudden we get thrown in it and then all the spotlight, everything, the context, the pressure.

1:25.1

Yeah, we struggled.

1:26.2

For an introvert, Eric Spolstra has made a habit of dealing

1:30.4

with the pressure of working with legends. In 2008, at just 37 years old, Spow took over for Pat Riley

1:37.6

as the Heat's head coach. Two years later, Spow found himself at the center of an unprecedented media frenzy.

1:45.7

At the start of that first year, you know, we had five times the amount of media attention

1:51.0

than my first two years as a head coach.

1:54.3

Spow joined David Aldridge for a one-on-one conversation about what it was like

1:59.2

coaching LeBron and the unmatched experience of the

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