On Grantland, Rafe Bartholomew wrote about Spoelstra in the Phillipines.
He also saw the role basketball played in people’s lives. “Every little alley had some crazy basket hung up on a telephone poll and made out of a garbage can and you saw kids playing barefoot, like a basketball oasis,” Spoelstra said.
The last time I was in the Philippines was 2007; thinking back, there really were a lot of hoops.