
ATLANTA — Hawks coach Quin Snyder returned to the bench for Thursday night time’s sport towards the Indiana Pacers after lacking one sport due to an sickness.
Snyder sat out Tuesday night time’s 127-121 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks with flu-like signs. Assistant Igor Kokoskov served as appearing coach.
“His degree of expertise makes you very comfy in these conditions,” Snyder stated of Kokoskov earlier than Thursday night time’s sport. “We have now an incredible workers with lots of people who’re actually gifted. His expertise, I believe for an assistant within the league may be very distinctive.”
Kokoskov, a local of Serbia, has coached within the NBA for 19 years.
Kokoskov joined Snyder’s workers in Atlanta in 2023 after earlier stints as an assistant with Brooklyn, Dallas, Sacramento, Phoenix, Utah, Cleveland, Detroit and the Los Angeles Clippers.
When employed by the Clippers in 2000, Kokoskov grew to become the primary non-American to be employed as a full-time assistant. He spent one season as a head coach, going 19-63 with Phoenix in 2018-19 and getting fired afterward.