{"id":411776,"date":"2026-01-16T23:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/411776\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T23:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:02:07","slug":"erik-spoelstra-on-kelel-ware-getting-benched-in-the-second-half-against-boston-hes-stacking-days-in-the-wrong-direction-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/411776\/","title":{"rendered":"Erik Spoelstra on Kel&#8217;el Ware getting benched in the second half against Boston: &#8216;He&#8217;s stacking days in the wrong direction now&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spoelstra\u2019s latest public callout directed at Ware came following Thursday night\u2019s 119-114 loss to the Boston Celtics at Kaseya Center. After benching Ware for the entire second half, Spoelstra did not hold back when asked why he didn\u2019t play Ware after halftime. \u201cIt was a tough matchup for him in Boston with all the coverages, and the same thing tonight,\u201d Spoelstra said, with the Heat reaching the midway point of the season at 21-20. \u201cHe just has to stay ready. Look, with Kel\u2019el, I know that\u2019s a lightning-rod topic. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/sports\/nba\/miami-heat\/article314339927.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:He needs to get back to where he was eight weeks ago, seven weeks ago, where I felt and everybody in the building felt, he was stacking days, good days. He\u2019s stacking days in the wrong direction now.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">He needs to get back to where he was eight weeks ago, seven weeks ago, where I felt and everybody in the building felt, he was stacking days, good days. He\u2019s stacking days in the wrong direction now.<\/a> He\u2019s just got to get back to that. Stack days, build those habits, make sure you\u2019re ready and play the minutes that you\u2019re playing to a point where it makes me want to play you more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/sports\/nba\/miami-heat\/article314339927.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miami Herald;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Miami Herald<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spoelstra\u2019s latest public callout directed at Ware came following Thursday night\u2019s 119-114 loss to the Boston Celtics at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[2242,355,197529,99,32532],"class_list":["post-411776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-boston-celtics","tag-nba","tag-spoelstra","tag-sports","tag-ware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}