Now that the Jazz are officially eliminated from the NBA playoffs, buzz that head coach Quin Snyder is on the way out the door this summer amidst what will likely be a tumultuous offseason in Utah has reached a fever pitch. And the loudest noise — and most directly linked to the Lakers so far — came from veteran NBA insider Marc Stein’s latest Substack dispatch.
In that story, Stein reported that Los Angeles indeed has “serious” interest in Snyder as their next head coach, but that there are still doubts around the league that they could sway him to return back to the team he served as an assistant coach for under Mike Brown in 2011:
The Lakers’ interest in Snyder as a successor to Frank Vogel is serious, sources say.