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Utah Jazz coach Quin Snyder points during the second half of the team’s NBA basketball game against the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday, Nov. 15, 2019, in Memphis, Tenn. | Karen Pulfer Focht, AP

MEMPHIS — Becoming an NBA head coach is not an easy task. Ask almost anyone who has been fortunate enough to be one for any length of time and they will tell you it often takes years to attain such a position, and keeping it is even harder. With 30 teams in the league, the competition is fierce and the qualifications typically very high for any individual in the candidate pool.

For those lucky enough to be in the coaching fraternity, there is generally a mutual respect and camaraderie that exists among those who make it. Such is the case with Utah Jazz head coach Quin Snyder and Taylor Jenkins, the first-year head coach of the Memphis Grizzlies.

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