Despite being considered one of the league’s most brilliant minds, Erik Spoelstra has never won the NBA’s Coach of the Year award. The Miami Heat might just surprise enough people next season for that to change.
This won’t be the case if you ask the folks over at the Worldwide Leader. A panel of ESPN insiders projected the Heat to win fewer than 40 games. Equally notable, the same group did not have any Miami representatives finishing in the top five for one of the major awards. That includes the Coach of the Year category.