Spoelstra addresses Heat no-show season, ‘You’re paid and everybody wants guys available’

MIAMI — For nearly two hours Friday, Erik Spoelstra and several of his Miami Heat players participated in exit interviews with the media at Kaseya Center.

But there also were several notable absences.

In many ways, that made it a microcosm of the just-completed season that concluded with a first-round playoff ouster as a No. 8 seed.

In the wake of having to utilize a franchise-record 37 lineups, and in the wake of routinely being without key players, Spoelstra took on the topic at the top of his Friday comments.