The Miami Heat had a tough finish to the 2025-26 NBA regular season.
The Heat fell to the Hornets, 127-126, in overtime of the NBA play-in game earlier this week. The tough overtime loss ended Miami's season. The Heat finished the year at 43-39 on the season.
Erik Spoelstra, 55, has been Miami's head coach since 2008. He's won two NBA championships. This season, the Heat missed the playoffs for the first time since 2019.
The future Hall of Fame head coach is one of the highest-paid head coaches in the league.
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Spoelstra signed an eight year, $120 million contract extension with the Eastern Conference franchise back in 2024.
The extension was signed shortly after his divorce was finalized.
News of the contract extension quickly led to speculation about the divorce on social media. However, Spoelstra's ex-wife, former Heat team dancer Nikki Sapp, sounded off on the rumors.
Spoelstra's ex-wife claps back at critics
Spoelstra made it clear that she was no "gold digger."
"People are very quick to label women gold diggers. Like: 'Oh, if she is with a successful person, she must be in it for the money,'" the 37-year-old told the Miami Herald in 2025, per Basketball Network.
"Do you really think that's all a husband brings to the table? In the end, no one really knows what happened."
She has since moved on, though she continues to call out the haters.
"It's one thing for you sports fanatics to come onto my page after I made a really big life choice and talk crazy and it's another thing entirely for you to come to my page and harass me and call me crazy names over something — a rumor, a (expletive) story that is 100 percent flat-out not true," Nikki said on Instagram.
Good for her for speaking out.
