Eric Snow

At 51 years old, Eric Snow has this physical status:

Eric Snow (born April 5, 1973) is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach with the Texas Legends of the NBA G League.

He served as the point guard in the National Basketball Association from 1995 to 2008, and was in three NBA Finals.

Snow was named to the NBA All-Defensive Second Team in 2003 after being known for his defense.

After spending two seasons at SMU (2012–14) as the director of player growth under Larry Brown, his former coach, during his playing career.

Personal life

Snow is the younger brother of former linebacker Percy Snow, who competed at Michigan State University and played for both the Kansas City Chiefs and the Chicago Bears of the NFL. In 1998, he married Deshawn, his college girlfriend, and the two divorced in 2010. Jarren, Darius, and Eric Jr. With second wife Carrie, he has three sons Noah, Graceson, and Brayden.

Darius' son, who is now a student at Michigan State, has committed to play football for the class of 2020.

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High school career

Snow began his basketball career at Canton McKinley High School in Canton, Ohio. For three seasons in a row, he was McKinley High School's MVP.

College career

Snow attended Michigan State University's college. Under head coach Jud Heathcote, he played varsity basketball at Michigan State. The Spartans gained a third seed to the 1995 NCAA Tournament in his senior year, but Weber State University defeated them in the first round.

NBA career

Snow was the Milwaukee Bucks' 43rd overall pick in the 1995 NBA draft after college. He was drafted immediately by the Seattle SuperSonics, where he appeared sparingly for the next two-and-a-half seasons.

The Philadelphia 76ers acquired Snow from Seattle on January 18, 1998, in exchange for a second-round draft pick. Snow was only 4.4 minutes per game at the time of the trade, but Sixers head coach Larry Brown gave him a larger role in Philadelphia. He started every game he played in and averaged 35.8 minutes per game in his first full season in Philadelphia.

Snow, who was born as a pass-first, defensive-minded point guard, became a stalwart of the Brown-era 76ers teams. Snow's ability to shield opposing teams' shooting guards made him the ideal complement to Allen Iverson, a high-scoring yet surprisingly small shooting guard. Despite missing thirty-two games early in the 2000-2001 season due to sickness, Snow helped the 76ers secure the top playoff seed and then advance to the 2001 NBA Finals, where the Los Angeles Lakers lost in five games to the Los Angeles Lakers in five games. Kobe Bryant, the Lakers' shooting guard, said that nobody in the league defended him better than Snow during the season.

Snow recorded career highs in points per game (12.9), rebounds per game (33.9), minutes per game (36.7), field goal percentage (45.2%), and free throw percentage (85.8%). Snow's high free throw percentage was particularly noteworthy in college and early in his NBA career, shooting 51% from the stripe during his four seasons as a rookie and 52% as a rookie. In 2002-2003, he averaged 6.6 assists and 1.6 steals per game.

In exchange for Kevin Ollie and Kedrick Brown, Snow was traded to the Cavaliers on July 20, 2004. Following a brawl with Paul Silas, the Cavaliers' coach, he was suspended without compensation for a game against the Boston Celtics on December 18, 2004. It was the only game that Snow missed in his first three years with the Cavaliers. On January 22, 2005 against the Golden State Warriors, he scored a season-high 16 points and a season-high 13 assists against the Boston Celtics, despite his highest assist total as a Cavalier. During the 2004-05 season, Snow ranked fifth in the NBA in assist-to-turnover ratio (3.56%) and donated $20 for every one of his steals and assists during the 2005–05 season.

In the 2005-06 season, Snow appeared in and started all 82 games for the Cavaliers, assisting the Cavaliers in their return to the playoffs for the first time since 1998. He appeared in all 13 Cavaliers playoff games. In a Game 5 victory over the Washington Wizards in the first round of the playoffs, he scored 18 points before losing to the Detroit Pistons in 7 games in the semifinals.

Snow played in all 82 games this season, for the fifth and final time in his career. On January 13, 2007, he scored a season-high 18 points against the Los Angeles Clippers and a season-high 11 assists against the Golden State Warriors. During the season, however, he gradually lost playing time until Daniel Gibson was brought off the bench on January 30, 2007, putting an end to Snow's streak of starts that lasted for 127 games. In a wild run this year, the Cavaliers made the NBA Finals and lost to the San Antonio Spurs.

Snow and LeBron James were named co-captain and team co-captain in their 13th NBA appearance. In 22 games this season, Snow only played in 22 games. Snow would miss four to six weeks due to arthritic-related pains in his left knee, which would have ended his season, according to him on March 11, 2008. After the injury, Snow admitted that he would not play in the NBA again.

Snow, who was unable to play but was still listed as an active player on the Cavaliers' roster, served as an unofficial assistant coach for the 2008-09 season. Snow was given a "medically essential" release and began working as an analyst for NBA television on April 4, 2009.

Snow made the NBA Finals three times, twice with each of the franchises on which he competed): the 76ers in 2001, and the Cavaliers in 2007. Both of the three appearances were flops. Snow served as team captain and leBron James in Philadelphia and Cleveland.

Coaching career

After his two-year stint as assistant coach for the Florida Atlantic University, Snow was hired as assistant coach for the Texas Legends in 2017 through NBA's Assistant Coaches Program (ACP). Snow had been the director of player growth for the Southern Methodist University from 2012 to 2014.

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