The Miami Heat basketball team always had some “Born To Run” or “The Rising” playing around its facilities thanks to the musical taste of ex coach and current team president Pat Riley.  Now the team is searching for a brand new “Beautiful Day.” Based on musical taste alone, the Heat seems to have the right guy to make the transition.

New coach Erik Spoelstra, who will be 38 next week, started attending U2 shows in college 18 years ago.

“Where The Streets Have No Name is absolutely my favorite concert song by any group,” Spoelstra says. “I think even a couple of these guys (on the team), I don’t think they would ever admit it, but even they would get energized.”

It’s appropriate. The first sentence of that song is “I want to run.” Spoelstra does want to play more of a running game this season.

Spoelstra has his own admission: he even dug U2’s kitschy Zooropa phase.

“I am not a groupie,” he insists. “I have seen them six or seven times. It’s not like I’ve seen them 100 times, like Pat with Springsteen.”

Hopefully this year’s team can “Walk On” to a repeat performance of their 2006 run, where the franchise won its first NBA title.

Post brough to you by: Ethan Skolnick