Hawks hire former Jazz head coach Quin Snyder

Lower than per week after firing Nate McMillan, the Atlanta Hawks already discovered their subsequent head coach, hiring Quin Snyder — previously of the Utah Jazz — on a five-year contract, according to ESPN.

The deal features a pact for the remainder of the season, the place he’ll take over the group as quickly as Tuesday towards the Washington Wizards.

Snyder reenters teaching after resigning from the Jazz final June following yet one more end-of-season collapse. Snyder took the reigns in Utah previous to the 2014-15 season and helped lead the franchise’s greatest run because the John Stockton and Karl Malone period ended within the early 2000s.

Beneath Snyder, the Jazz went a mixed 372-264 within the common season, together with three 50-win seasons between 2016-2021. Nonetheless, the Jazz went simply 21-30 within the playoffs via six consecutive journeys from 2016-22. The Jazz had been eradicated within the first spherical in three of their final 4 seasons previous to Snyder’s departure.

Most notably, the Jazz had been the No. 1 seed within the West throughout the 2021 playoffs however misplaced in six video games to the Los Angeles Clippers in spherical two regardless of Kawhi Leonard tearing his ACL and lacking the ultimate two video games of the collection.

McMillan had taken over the Hawks job halfway via the 2020-21 season after the firing of Lloyd Pierce in response to an underwhelming 14-20 begin. McMillan guided the group to a 27-11 report the remainder of the best way, and an eventual berth within the Japanese Convention finals, which included their notorious first-round collection with the Knicks.

After that, the Hawks went 43-39 and earned the No. 8 seed however had been gents’s swept by the Miami Warmth in spherical one, who outscored them by 62 factors via 5 video games. And at present, the Hawks are 31-30, and the No. 8 seed once more regardless of making a win-now commerce for All-Star guard Dejounte Murray final summer time.

Snyder will now be the Hawks’ third head coach in three seasons and enters a state of affairs he should navigate alongside polarizing level guard Trae Younger. Younger’s reportedly had contentious relationships with each McMillan and Pierce on the best way out the door.