Miami Heat: Erik Spoelstra's uncommon approach to Kel'el Ware
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🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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After calling publicly for more professionalism from Kel'el Ware during summer league, Erik Spoelstra has doubled down in the preseason. Spoelstra doesn't typically critique players in public. Ethan Skolnick and Greg Sylvander analyze the reasons why Spoelstra is doing it with Ware, and how it could pay off, or backfire.
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