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NCAA Winning Coach: The Multi Cultural Erik Spoelstra

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Erik Spoelstra is an NBA coach who was born to a father of Dutch and Irish descent and a Filipino mother named Elisa Celino. ?Erik Spoelstra?(born November 1, 1970) is an American professional?basketball?coach and the current?head coach?of theNational Basketball Association?s?Miami Heat. He is the first?Filipino-American?head coach?in the NBA,?as well as the first Filipino-American head coach of any North American professional sports team.??He is also the first?Asian-American?head coach in the history of the four major American sports leagues.

He is the son of?Dutch-Irish-American?Jon Spoelstra, who was an NBA executive for the?Portland Trail Blazers,?Denver Nuggets,Buffalo Braves?and?New Jersey Nets,[4]?and the grandson of the late Watson Spoelstra, a sportswriter in the Detroit area.

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