{"id":464562,"date":"2025-10-15T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=464562"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:00:51","slug":"erik-spoelstra-didnt-hesitate-to-accept-team-usa-head-coach-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/erik-spoelstra-didnt-hesitate-to-accept-team-usa-head-coach-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Spoelstra didn\u2019t hesitate to accept Team USA head coach role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1609\" data-end=\"1931\"><strong data-start=\"1609\" data-end=\"1627\">Erik Spoelstra<\/strong> is the new <strong data-start=\"1639\" data-end=\"1677\">head coach of USA men\u2019s basketball<\/strong>, succeeding <strong data-start=\"1690\" data-end=\"1704\">Steve Kerr<\/strong>, as confirmed by <em data-start=\"1722\" data-end=\"1736\">The Athletic<\/em>. When <strong data-start=\"1743\" data-end=\"1757\">Grant Hill<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1762\" data-end=\"1775\">Sean Ford<\/strong> asked him to take the job over dinner in Miami, Spoelstra said, \u201c<strong data-start=\"1841\" data-end=\"1928\">No hesitation \u2014 I had goosebumps. It\u2019s an incredible honor to represent my country.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1933\" data-end=\"2188\">A <strong data-start=\"1935\" data-end=\"1960\">two-time NBA champion<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1965\" data-end=\"1990\">six-time Finals coach<\/strong>, Spoelstra previously assisted Team USA in Tokyo and Paris, helping secure gold at the 2024 Olympics. Hill praised him as \u201cthe perfect choice to continue the national team\u2019s legacy through 2028.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2190\" data-end=\"2483\">Spoelstra emphasized sacrifice and unity as the foundation of his approach: \u201cUSAB already has its own culture. Everyone plays a different role, and that\u2019s what makes it special.\u201d His Heat star <strong data-start=\"2383\" data-end=\"2398\">Bam Adebayo<\/strong> celebrated the announcement in practice \u2014 a moment Spoelstra called \u201creally cool.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami Heat coach will lead the Americans at the 2027 FIBA World Cup and 2028 Olympics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":401172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-464562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/2023mb05settembre_029.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464562"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=464562"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=464562"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=464562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}