Hawks hire Snyder as coach to replace fired McMillan

By CHARLES ODUM
AP Sports Writer

ATLANTA (AP) — Quin Snyder has been hired as the Atlanta Hawks coach. Terms of the agreement were not immediately disclosed Sunday. The Hawks fired coach Nate McMillan on Tuesday. General manager Landry Fields stressed that Atlanta’s eighth-place standing in the Eastern Conference was not acceptable for a team that advanced to the conference finals in 2021. Snyder was coach of the Utah Jazz from the 2014-15 to 2021-22 seasons, accumulating a 372-264 record and leading the Jazz to the playoffs in six of his eight seasons. He said in the team’s statement he’s “thrilled to go back to Atlanta.”