The Quin Snyder ... Sweepstakes?

Snyder remains Utah's coach and has one season left on his contract, but a third first-round exit in four years has only heightened rival teams' belief that they might soon have a shot at hiring him

SALT LAKE CITY — Quin Snyder's eighth season as coach of the Utah Jazz came to another crushing conclusion Thursday night with a 98-96 loss to the Dallas Mavericks at a stunned Vivint Arena.

Snyder hadn’t lost a home game to Dallas for six years before these playoffs. The Jazz ended up losing two of their three home dates in this first-round matchup, bar…