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Foes bonded "War Room" brotherhood


Grind City Media

MEMPHIS – The sting from a Game 7 loss in Toronto still burned the morning after when Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra felt the buzz from his ringing cell phone.

On the other end of the line that Monday morning in mid-May was Heat assistant David Fizdale.

“It was (freaking) depressing because we had just lost, and I was getting my mind ready for exit interviews with our players,” Spoelstra recalled. “And in the midst of that depression, at some point early that morning, Fiz calls me and says, ‘Spo, this is on.