Don't shed a tear for Cry-Gate, Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said Monday.

The man who made the Heatles look more like the Spice Girls with his comments Sunday said there were no tears in the Heat locker room after the loss to the Chicago Bulls, despite his post game comments that some players were crying.

"Nobody was whimpering in the locker room," Spoelstra said. "Guys heads were down."

Well that's very believable after another tough loss, but why not just say that instead of turning the most hated team in professional sports into the most laughed at team in professional sports?

The New York Knicks are laughing as loud as Spike Lee cheers for them. The Zen Master on the West Coast is probably chuckling as he masterminds a way to further poke at the Heat's shaken psyche.  

We have no doubt Spoelstra likely cries himself to bed at night wondering when the shadowy figure from the president's box will float down and ask him to take some time to be with his family or to train for a fight against Manny Pacquaio.

But deflecting his emotional state on his already fragile team has served as a much un-needed distraction.

At practice, Dwyane Wade and LeBron James had to field questions about which teeammates needed a tissue after the loss and whose shoulder would they mostlikely turn to.

The two stars should have been able to use that time to figure out which would get the ball in the pressure situations.

Both said they stuck by Spoelstra's comments, no matter how inaccurate their leader was.

Hopefully, the box of Klenex is closed on Cry-Gate and the Heat can get back to more depressing issues like how to not blow a fourth quarter lead.

Now that's really something to cry about.