Water bottles were getting dumped on Miami coach Erik Spoelstra from all angles in a joyous locker room after the Heat beat the Milwaukee Bucks in an NBA Cup game, and the scene caught him off-guard.

The water-pourers wanted to celebrate his 800th career win.

And Spoelstra had no idea what was happening.

“I was very confused,” Spoelstra said Wednesday night. “I was calculating that maybe we’ve qualified for the Cup. Then I’m looking around and nobody else is getting water dumped on them, and I’m like, ‘Wait a minute — what’s going on here?’”

That was when Spoelstra learned of the milestone. He's the 17th coach in NBA history to win that many games and only the third to do it with one team, joining San Antonio's Gregg Popovich and Utah's Jerry Sloan.

“It hasn’t sunk in yet because I wa

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