Two months after Erik Spoelstra spoke of Eric Glass being on the fast track to the Miami Heat coaching staff, the team Friday confirmed that Glass will coach the team during summer leagues in Sacramento and Las Vegas.
Glass, 34, is the Heat’s video coordinator, as well as part of the team’s player-development staff. His coaching experience includes time under former NBA coach Mike Fratello with the Ukrainian national team.
The Heat often have utilized summer league to develop their coaching staff, with assistant coaches Chris Quinn, Juwan Howard and Dan Craig among those to recently coach the team’s summer rosters. Pat Delany, now an Orlando Magic assistant coach, also has coached the Heat during summer league.
The Heat will participate in a four-team summer league hosted by the Sacramento Kings that begins at the end of this month, before moving on to the larger summer league in Las Vegas that features all 30 NBA teams.
Spoelstra mentioned after Craig filled in for him during a late March loss to the Indiana Pacers that he could envision Glass eventually joining his coaching staff.
“The way we’ve worked it,” Spoelstra said following missing that game for the birth of his son, “is guys have really stepped up and taken on more responsibility, and not only D.C., but Juwan is ready to take that next step soon. Chris Quinn, obviously what he did this summer was tremendous; he’s going to be a future head coach. Eric Glass, behind the bench, if you don’t know who he is right now, write an article about him. He’s going to be a head coach and he’ll be the next in line of David Fizdales, Pat Delanys, Dan Craigs to come out of the video room and to get on the staff officially.”
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Glass has served as an assistant coach for the Heat’s summer league team the past two seasons, including coaching one game in place of Quinn last summer in Orlando, when Quinn returned to Miami to be part of the team’s free-agency pitch to Gordon Hayward.
The Heat coaching staff has one available vacancy behind the bench, beyond such a role that Octavio De La Grana held last season. The three assistants who worked alongside Spoelstra on the bench this past season were Craig, Howard and Quinn. Howard this offseason twice interviewed for coaching vacancies, including the New York Knicks’ job that went to former Heat assistant David Fizdale, as well as falling short of the final cut to replace former Heat coach Stan Van Gundy with the Detroit Pistons.
Heat guard Dwyane Wade said there is a respect within the locker room for the way Heat coaches have worked their way through the team’s ranks.
“One thing about the coaches in Miami,” Wade said, “they all go up the ranks. They all do everything before they become a head coach.”
Glass has been a frequent participant in Heat practices, traveling with the team, and often working individually on the side with players.
Glass joined the Heat’s video staff as an intern in 2010. In 2013, he was named video coordinator by Spoelstra, who previously held the position. In his current role, Glass oversees the creation of all video edits that the coaching staff uses to scout opponents.
Glass’ international work includes two appointments as an assistant coach under Fratello for the Ukraine during the 2013 EuroBasket Championships and the 2014 FIBA World Cup.
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Prior to joining the Heat, Glass served as a graduate coaching assistant at Cal State Fullerton from 2007 to 2009. He then joined UC Irvine as video coordinator for 2009-10. He is a 2007 graduate of California State Fullerton, with a B.A. in kinesiology, later earning an M.S. in kinesiology.
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