Erik Spoelstra is widely regarded as the NBA's best coach. He's a two-time NBA champion whose teams frequently outperform their talent and utilize creative and thoughtful tactics. The last coach in the NBA you'd ever expect to directly attribute a loss to ...

That last game was particularly interesting because it involved one of the greatest coaches of this generation making an incredibly uncharacteristic mistake at the worst possible time. With the game tied at the end of the extra period, Erik Spoelstra called a timeout … even though the Heat didn’t have any.

Erik Spoelstra made a critical error that contributed to the Miami Heat’s loss against the Detroit Pistons in their NBA Cup opener. Following the game, team leaders ...