Elisburg has been there since the first season, along with broadcasters Eric Reid and José Pañeda, team ambassador (and former assistant coach and broadcaster) Tony Fiorentino, chief financial officer Sammy Schulman and vice president of marketing Jeff Craney. Micky Arison is managing general partner, son Nick Arison is CEO, Riley is president, Andy Elisburg is general manager, Adam Simon is assistant general manager. The names atop the staff directory have barely changed since 1995, and in some cases since the team’s inception in 1988. Contracts for coaches and executives within the organization are hardly ever announced it’s just assumed that everybody stays put year after year. But in Miami, that doesn’t mean anything. Spoelstra’s contract was ending after this season, which isn’t a good sign in most places. Wade offered a similar sentiment: “Spo!!!!!!!!! Earned!” he wrote, with eight moneybag emojis in there as well. “Worth Every Single Cent of that contract!!!” James tweeted on Tuesday. He’ll be an assistant on Steve Kerr’s USA Basketball staff that will try to win Olympic gold in Paris this summer and is widely expected to be a top candidate when it’s time for the Americans to pick a head coach for the 2028 Los Angeles Games. Spoelstra is 19th all-time in regular-season victories (725 entering Wednesday) and fifth in playoff victories (109, not counting a play-in tournament game win last season as well). Only San Antonio and Boston have won more regular-season games than Miami since Spoelstra took over for Riley in 2008, and no team in that span has won more playoff games. And that’s why I feel a great responsibility to be a caretaker for this culture, now and moving forward.” I grew up in the NBA business so I understand how unique that is. And we’ve had some tough times and tough years and that’s when we’ve really rallied around each other the most. We enjoy the process of trying to do special things. “There’s going to be ups and downs in this business.

“In this business, you also just want to work with great people that are well-intentioned,” Spoelstra said Wednesday.

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