Kevin Arnovitz

How executive Jeff David stole $13 million from the Sacramento Kings.

How accusations of racism and a struggle for control tore apart the Atlanta Hawks regime.

If you ask Erik Spoelstra how he rose up through the ranks from The Dungeon all the way to the Miami Heat head coaching position, he’ll offer you a self-deprecating variation of Woody Allen’s old adage that 80 percent of life is just showing up. His willingness to stay late and do the work nobody else wants to do is enough to keep him around. As people come and go from the organization, he invariably moves up because Pat Riley and the organization prefer to tap someone in-house over bringing in someone from the outside.