ERIC GLASS

Assistant Coach/Player Development

The 2023-24 season marks the 14th season with the HEAT organization for Eric Glass and his third in the role of Assistant Coach/Player Development. Glass has served a number of roles within the organization since being hired as an intern in the video room in the summer of 2010.

He returned to Miami for the 2020-21 season as Player Development Coach after serving a one-year stint as the head coach of the HEAT’s G League team, the Sioux Falls Skyforce. He led the Skyforce to a 22-20 record and a second-place finish in the Midwest Division in the pandemic shortened 2019-20 season. Glass had the Skyforce in playoff position, going 14-7 from January 1 and had won five of its last six games before the shutdown.

Glass has previously served as Video Coordinator and Video Coordinator/Player Development Coach for the HEAT. Additionally, he served as the head coach of the HEAT’s summer league team in both 2018 and 2019 after spending the previous two summers as an assistant coach for the HEAT’s summer league team.  Glass has also had a taste of the international scene, having served two appointments as an assistant coach under Mike Fratello for the Ukraine National Team during the 2013 EuroBasket Championships and the 2014 FIBA World Cup.

Prior to joining the HEAT, Glass served as the Men’s Basketball Graduate Assistant for Cal State Fullerton from 2007-09.  He then joined UC Irvine as their Video Coordinator for the 2009-10 season.

A 2007 graduate of California State University, Fullerton, Glass received his B.A. in Kinesiology and later added an M.S. in Kinesiology in 2009. The Newport Beach, CA native married his wife, Ana, in February of 2016 and the couple has a six-year old son, Cash.