Two-time NBA champion coach Erik Spoelstra will likely guide USA Basketball through the next FIBA World Cup and 2028 Summer Olympics, three sources with knowledge of the decision told The Athletic.

Spoelstra, 54, the NBA’s winningest active coach, with 787 wins in 17 seasons with the Miami Heat, will take over the U.S. men’s team from Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, who stepped down after guiding the Americans to their fifth consecutive Olympic gold in Paris in 2024.

USA Basketball declined to confirm Spoelstra’s selection but is expected to make a formal announcement in the coming days. His hiring must first be approved by USA Basketball’s board of directors.

Spoelstra was a member of Kerr’s U.S. coaching staff in 2023, when the team finished fourth at the World Cup in the Philippines, and in 2024 in Paris. Prior to that, he coached the U.S. Select Team — a collection of rising stars that practices against the national team of NBA stars — for the Tokyo Olympics.

“I’d be willing to do anything for USA Basketball,” Spoelstra told The Athletic in a December interview. “That’s how it should be for anybody, for players and for staff members, if you’re asked. It’s such an honor and such a life experience, so you just do it. You don’t want to miss out on those experiences. And I would do any role.”

It is not immediately clear who will be on Spoelstra’s bench, but two names to watch for, sources said, are Jamahl Mosley of the Magic and Mark Daigneault of the Thunder

It is becoming tradition within the U.S. men’s program for the head coach to: A. Serve one cycle of a World Cup and Olympics; B. Have someone from his staff be promoted to succeed him.

Gregg Popovich coached the U.S. program at the 2019 World Cup and Tokyo Olympics (held in 2021 because of COVID-19). Kerr was a member of Popovich’s staff and took over for him, and Spoelstra joined Tyronn Lue and Mark Few as Kerr’s assistants.

The Heat won NBA titles in 2012 and 2013 under Spoelstra and have reached the finals four other times under his direction. Miami star Bam Adebayo played on the last two Olympic teams and will be 31 when the Olympics come to Los Angeles in 2028.

The Americans are widely expected to take a younger team to Qatar for the World Cup in 2027 — an event the U.S. men’s team hasn’t won since 2014.