Steve Nash Fired: Ime Udoka, Quin Snyder Are Top Candidates To Be Brooklyn Nets Coach

The Brooklyn Nets have fired head coach Steve Nash just seven games into the 2022-2023 season. Assistant coach Jacque Vaughn will take over on an interim basis, but Brooklyn reportedly has its eyes on a couple of candidates who have experienced recent success as NBA head coaches.

The Nets are expected to inquire about suspended Boston Celtics coach Ime Udoka and former Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder, according to ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski. Udoka won't coach Boston this season because of multiple violations of team policies. Snyder resigned from Utah in June, concluding an eight-season tenure with the Jazz.

The Celtics will let Udoka accept a coaching position with another team, Wojnarowski reports. The Nets are reportedly looking into Udoka's suspension. Boston hasn't publicly detailed Udoka's specific violations, but it's been reported that the coach had an intimate relationship with a female member of the Celtics' staff.

Jacque Vaughn is the acting head coach tonight but expect the Nets to inquire with suspended Celtics coach Ime Udoka, Quin Snyder, among others. Boston will let Udoka leave for another job.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) November 1, 2022

Brooklyn, among other teams, has quietly done due diligence on the circumstances of Ime Udoka's suspension in Boston, source told @SInow. With Udoka unlikely to ever return to the Celtics bench, teams have been looking into what happened.
— Chris Mannix (@SIChrisMannix) November 1, 2022

Udoka led the Celtics to the 2022 NBA Finals in his first year as a head coach. In the season before being hired by Boston, Udoka was an assistant on Nash's staff in Brooklyn.

The Jazz made the playoffs in each of the last six seasons with Snyder as the head coach. Snyder and the Jazz reached the second round of the postseason twice and never made the Western Conference Finals.

The Nets could also consider hiring Mike D'Antoni. D'Antoni was a Nets assistant in the 2020-2021 season and currently serves as an advisor to the New Orleans Pelicans. He has 672 career wins as a head coach with three trips to the conference finals on his resume.

Nash and the Nets agreed to mutually part ways, according to Wojnarowski, following the team's 2-5 start to the season. Brooklyn is looking to potentially hire an experienced head coach who might be able to get the team on track,

On Opening Night, Brooklyn was considered to be one of the league's top championship contenders.