The Miami Heat host the Los Angeles Clippers on Wednesday evening, and once the game begins, Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra will pass Hall of Famer Pat Riley for most games coached in franchise history.

Spoelstra, who became the head coach back in 2008, is currently tied with Riley for games coached in Miami history at 849 games. Spoelstra will reach the 850 mark on Wednesday.

Entering Wednesday, Erik Spoelstra has a coaching record of 506-343 with the Heat during the regular season. The 48-year-old has won two championships and is the franchise leader in wins.

Spoelstra has been with the Heat since 1995. He was a video coordinator for two years before Pat Riley made him an assistant coach.

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After 11 years as an assistant, Spoelstra replaced Riley in 2008 and has been one of the best coaches in the NBA since then.

Speaking to reporters after Wednesday's shootaround, Erik Spoelstra spoke about a conversation he had with his father when he was appointed as the head coach of the Heat.

“Looking back on that now, my dad obviously had been fired from a couple different places, he knew the real NBA and the reality of that is usually it’s a three or four-year run, and he was saying it almost as such an exaggeration that, Hey, this literally could been an eight-to-10-year run,” Spoelstra said, via David Wilson of the Miami Herald. “You can’t get that in pro sports.

“It doesn’t matter what your position is, it doesn’t matter if you ever get promoted, just find a way to hang with this guy, this Hall of Famer, so I guess the lesson to that is I’m still just trying to hang on, I’m trying to work for him for as long as I possibly can.”

The Heat are 22-23 on the season, good for seventh place in the Eastern Conference standings. They are coming off a 107-99 loss to the Celtics in Boston.