Spoelstra emotional for Haslem’s first final step? Heat captain hasn’t played an opener since 2015
It’ s not that Erik Spoelstra didn’ t want to go there, it’ s just that he didn’ t want to make this an 82- game process. And yet there the Miami Heat coach stood, on the practice court at FTX Arena, asked about Wednesday’ s 7:30 p.m. season opener against the visiting Chicago Bulls standing as the final opening night of Udonis Haslem’ s 20- year career with the team.