As the Miami Heat get set to welcome the Dallas Mavericks to town on Friday evening, Coach Erik Spoelstra must be tossing and turning in his sleep. Not only does he have the last few horrible losses against Atlanta, then Cleveland, and Minnesota to keep him up at night, but on the backs of those defeats, he can look forward to Mavericks and Slovenian wunderkind Luka Doncic coming into the American Airlines Arena to play.
While that is a sick, cruel, and twisted joke towards any coach’s defensive gameplan, it is indeed also a reality for Spo.