Sports creativity is an embodied, socio-culturally embedded process emerging from dynamic interactions between individuals and their environment. Ecological dynamics emphasizes that creativity arises through behavioral exploration of affordances, with intentions and actions co-evolving over time, challenging traditional views that necessarily separate mental ideation from physical expression. Early sport creativity theories, such as Brown and Gaynor’s (1967) theory, emphasized creativity emerging through action shaped by personal and environmental factors. Hristovski’s (1989) dynamic model advanced this by framing creativity as a transition from potential to actual action, using fundamental entropy principles—though it lacked a fully integrated human–environment perspective. Recent research in ecological dynamics has addressed earlier models’ limitations by emphasizing exploratory behavior and performer-environment interactions. This yielded a nested, metastable dynamics model integrating process and product aspects of creativity, with behavioral variability and creative adaptivity emerging from resolving under-constrained, ill-posed problems in sport contexts. Empirical research has validated key predictions of the ecological dynamics model, showing that manipulating constraints fosters creativity by enhancing exploration and variability. The discovery of metastable regions—where performers exhibit maximal versatility—has practical implications across sports and beyond, suggesting broader applications in domains like music and STEAM education through tailored task constraints.