Yes, Suns head coach Igor Kokoskov spent the past three seasons with the Utah Jazz. But his relationship with Quin Snyder actually goes back a couple decades.
They met when Snyder was an assistant at his alma mater, Duke, and Kokoskov was a young Serbian coach taking a tour of American collegiate programs. They hit it off to such a degree, Snyder said, that he immediately vowed if he ever got a chance to become a head coach, he intended to hire his new colleague — something he did both at the University of Missouri and with the Jazz.