MIAMI—Santiago Ray Spoelstra’s father is back at work.
Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, still wearing the bracelet from the hospital where his son was born, will be back on the bench Tuesday for his team’s game against the Cleveland Cavaliers. Spoelstra missed Sunday’s game at Indiana, though revealed that he didn’t initially say the right thing when his wife Nikki called him to say it was baby time.
“As naive as I was, I made the comment to our doctor and Nikki on speakerphone, ‘OK, is this a fire drill?’” Spoelstra said. “And that’s when I proceeded to get screamed at.