Erik Spoelstra continued to add to his illustrious resume on Wednesday night, as his latest game as head coach of the Miami Heat put him ahead of some truly elite company.

After coaching his 850th game for the Heat on Wednesday night – a 111-99 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers – he officially passed team president and Hall of Fame coach Pat Riley for the most coached games in Miami Heat history.

With that number, Spoelstra is now just one of 13 coaches to ever coach at least 850 games with one NBA franchise.

“My dad had been fired from a couple of different places and he knew the real NBA,” Spoelstra told USA Today. “He was saying it almost as such an exaggeration … just find a way to hang on with this guy, this Hall of Famer. And I guess the lesson to that is, I'm still just trying to hang on, trying to work for him for as long as I possibly can.”

Assuming that everything stays the same in the league, Spoelstra’s next milestone would be 1,000 career games coached, which would likely come sometime around the 2020-21 NBA season. Despite Miami’s 22-24 record, the team is still in contention for the playoffs in the Eastern Conference, and players like Dwyane Wade had nothing but praise for the head coach.

“He's consistent,” Wade said. “If you're a parent, you understand that my kids need consistency from me and my wife. They need routines, they need all these things. It's the same thing. It's a big day care that he has in that locker room and he's consistent with his message and how we do things.”

Currently, the Heat sit in the eighth-place spot in the Eastern Conference, just a game and a half ahead of the Detroit Pistons. Thankfully for them, the bottom half of the Eastern Conference is there for the taking, so with Spoelstra leading the team, things can only go up for Miami.