ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Quin Snyder’s typically tamed hair had an extra slick to it after the Atlanta Hawks’ 123-113 win over the Sacramento Kings on Saturday night.<\/p>\n
His team, fresh off its 15th victory in 17 games, thought Snyder’s 500th career win warranted a celebratory shower from the Gatorade cooler.<\/p>\n
Snyder became the 41st coach in NBA history \u2014 and the sixth currently active \u2014 to reach the 500-win milestone.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was special,” Snyder said after the game. \u201cWhen you\u2019ve been in this league for a while, you realize that coaches, they keep your record, but it’s really the players and the other people that allow for that to happen.<\/p>\n
“I\u2019ve been really lucky to be able to coach some not just really good players, but just really quality people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Snyder’s knack for developing players has been put to the test this year as the team was overhauled with seven newcomers by the Feb. 5 trade deadline. In his fourth year as coach of the Hawks, Jalen Johnson, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Onyeka Okongwu and Dyson Daniels are all having career-best seasons.<\/p>\n
Before joining Atlanta, Snyder coached the Jazz for eight seasons and led the team to the postseason six times.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn behalf of the organization, I\u2019d like to congratulate Coach Snyder on reaching 500 career wins,\u201d Hawks general manager Onsi Saleh said in a statement. \u201cThis is truly a special milestone that is reflective of his unique ability to consistently put his players in a position to be successful, his relentless preparation and the trust and outcomes he establishes with our players.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jock Landale, after his second double-double since joining the team in February, said Snyder has been a key factor in helping him adapt to a new team and system.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuin\u2019s incredible, honestly, and I don\u2019t say that lightly. He\u2019s been instrumental in just kind of getting me up to speed with exactly what\u2019s going on,” Landale said. \u201cHe’s a great coach to play for, and I think that all 17 of us would say the exact same thing about him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Quin Snyder’s typically tamed hair had an extra slick to it after the Atlanta Hawks’…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[47173,47172,137212,355,47176,21143,74976,74973,245332,191221,245375,99],"class_list":["post-551712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-dyson-daniels","tag-jalen-johnson","tag-jock-landale","tag-nba","tag-nickeil-alexander-walker","tag-onyeka-okongwu","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40781-ap-georgia-sports-only","tag-quin-snyder","tag-quin-snyder-atlanta-hawks-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}