Nikki Spoelstra said she was harassed on social media over a rumor she described as “fabricated nonsense” in a video posted Sunday to her Instagram.
Nikki, who is the ex-wife of Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra, explained that there was “a f–king story that is 100 percent, flat out not true,” but did not specifically name anyone.
It came amid a baseless rumor on social media that she was involved with a Miami Heat player.
“Oh this is going to be fun,” Nikki, 38, said in the video. “Y’all streets give me way too much power when s–t doesn’t go your way in pro sports. It’s one thing for you sports fanatics to come onto my page after I made a really big life choice and talk crazy and it’s another thing entirely for you to come to my page to harass me and call me crazy names over something, a rumor, a f–king story that is 100 percent flat out not true.
Nikki, who is a former Heat dancer, added that she spoke with “the girlfriend” and the “mom” of the player in question and they were all laughing at the situation.
Nikki Spoelstra said she was harassed on social media over a rumor that she described as “fabricated nonsense” in a video posted to her Instagram on March 23, 2025. Instagram/Nikki Spoelstra
“… You come over here with your dirty feet in my space — I’m going to address you and call you out,” Nikki said. “So this little rumor that you sports trolls are going wild about, I would never do that for two main reasons which I actually don’t feel the obligation to explain to you just that it would not happen and it’s not real.
“And while your story might be entertaining with these plot assumptions, there are so many holes in your story and quite frankly it’s just really bad storytelling. So while all of you guys are entertaining yourselves with this fabricating nonsense, I already talked to the girlfriend, I already talked to the mom and the three of us are over here rolling our eyes at all you knuckleheads.
Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra reacts on the baseline during the first quarter against the Knicks at Madison Square Garden in New York on March 17, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg / New York Post
“Here’s the deal you’re not allowed to come to my page calling me names. I know what some of you are thinking, ‘you’re a public person, you open your page up for the public.’ That’s true you’re still not allowed to come to my space and talk s–t to me like that. No sir. No ma’am. I’m just surprised that you guys are still giving me so much power when things are going your way in sports. And let’s not forget, according to a lot of you guys I’m too ugly and too old for this s–t anyway.”
Nikki addressed internet trolls in her caption and challenged them to share their “nastiest” comment.
“Let’s go IG. Show me what you got. Keep coming for my integrity,” she wrote. “The only person who is big mad is you, babes! It’s hard when things don’t go your way in sports. Ik ik. Trolls tap in! Comment below with the nastiest s–t you got for me. Go on. Show your humanity. Nastiest comment wins.”
Nikki Spoelstra at a Miami Heat game in December 2024. Instagram/Nikki Spoelstra
Nikki and Spoelstra finalized their divorce in November 2023, and explained it was an “amicable decision” to part ways in a joint statement to the Miami Herald.
The “Becoming: HER” podcast host was married to Spoelstra, 54, for seven years and they share three children: sons Santiago, 6, and Dante, 4, and daughter, Ruby, 2.
Nikki opened up about what was described as her “next phase as a single mom in recovery” — and looked back at her DUI arrest, alcoholism and their divorce — in a candid interview published last week by the Miami Herald.
