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TIL when Pat Riley became the Head Coach of the Miami Heat in 1995, his contract didn't allow him to bring his own video coordinator which spared the job of the existing one. That video coordinator was Erik Spoelstra and in 2008 Spoelstra became Riley's successor as the head coach of the Heat.

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