{"id":115578,"date":"2022-12-28T17:52:35","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T22:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=115578"},"modified":"2023-03-27T11:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T15:43:53","slug":"stephen-silas-praises-celtics-for-classy-paul-silas-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=115578","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Silas Praises Celtics for Classy Paul Silas Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"playHtListenArea\" style=\"display:none;margin: 0;\">\n\t\t<div id=\"playht-audioplayer-element\" data-play-article=\"https:\/\/www.clnsmedia.com\/?p=115578\" data-play-audio=\"https:\/\/media.play.ht\/full_-NKPwUtxKcibSvvsPA8O.mp3?generation=1672268102107842&alt=media\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<p id=\"9OHiIh\">BOSTON \u2014 <strong>Stephen Silas<\/strong> was born in Boston in 1973, shortly before <strong>Paul Silas<\/strong> won two championships with the <a class=\"ql-autolink\" data-autolink-id=\"886293f1ab73069bafa5a3f0a94cf372\" data-autolink-href=\"https:\/\/www.celticsblog.com\">Celtics<\/a> in 1974 and 1976. That triggers memories each time he enters TD Garden, seeing those banners, but Tuesday\u2019s embrace hit different.<\/p>\n<p id=\"iU2LVZ\">Paul died on Dec. 10 at 79-years-old after a 48-year basketball career, only four of which came with the Celtics, where he played All-Defensive First Team level minutes at power forward next to <strong>John Havlicek, Dave Cowens<\/strong> and <strong>Jo Jo White<\/strong> under <strong>Tommy Heinsohn<\/strong>. Stephen acknowledged that short tenure compared to other Celtics legends, but Boston handed on Silas pins and played a video tribute they sent to the Silas family ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p id=\"bdtSgW\">\u201cHe considered himself a Celtic, for sure,\u201d Silas said before Tuesday\u2019s game. \u201cHe was only here for four years, but won two championships and growing up, that\u2019s what he was. He was a Celtic. So, for them to do that means a ton to not just me, but my family, my friends, it\u2019s really just a classy, classy thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Stephen Silas PRAISES Celtics for Paul Silas Tribute\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0J8aO6aQRAM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"wzhhNd\">Paul built his legacy and inspired Stephen\u2019s career as a head coach, mostly in Charlotte, but also becoming <strong>LeBron James\u2019<\/strong> first NBA head coach in 2003 with the Cavaliers. Stephen joined him in Charlotte, New Orleans and Cleveland, before forging his own path through Washington, Golden State and then returning to the Bobcats in 2010. Stephen became the league\u2019s youngest assistant in 2000 and coached for 20 years before receiving his current head coaching with the Rockets 2020. Tuesday\u2019s pre-game seemed therapeutic for him.<\/p>\n<p id=\"FFBqWg\">Silas told stories about his father\u2019s temper on the floor, the way he challenged players and how he could pull some lessons, and not others from Paul\u2019s old-school approach. The family knew his softer side, but still heard from many former players in the days after his death sharing their appreciation for Paul\u2019s impact on them. <a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Td10-a-WYks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">James did so in a post-game interview<\/a>. Monty Williams greeted Stephen with a hug after he returned from bereavement and Bob Ryan, <a class=\"ql-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5m_57PnDcZk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who covered Paul in his early days with the <em>Boston Globe<\/em><\/a>, did the same on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Monty Williams consoles Stephen Silas after the loss of his father\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7Pcg3KGrKeI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"bizBGm\">\u201cYou can\u2019t just grab a player anymore like my dad used to do,\u201d Stephen said, laughing. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t say you can\u2019t be as tough as my dad was, but there\u2019s certain times he was so direct. He would\u2019ve hurt a lot of player\u2019s feelings of this era and that\u2019s not good for your job security at this time, but he always did it in such a way that the players always knew that he cared about them at the same time, so to have that balance to be able to go at players, and really, really go at them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"V4dvKt\">\u201cHe just had a way about him that he was tough and gritty and mean on the court, but then off the court, the exact opposite, like a teddy bear and quick to smile, quick to laugh, quick to joke, and there aren\u2019t many people who have that ability to do those two things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"YQdH3C\">Paul, like <strong>Bill Russell<\/strong>, moved from the south in Arkansas to Oakland, California as a child and looked up to Russell, who was nearly a decade older, but was finishing high school at McClymonds before attending the University of San Francisco. Stephen remembered Paul telling him they hung out at the same recreation center, DeFremery Park, before Paul also attended McClymonds in hopes of following in Russell\u2019s footsteps to USF.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Celtics Video Tribute to Paul Silas\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lxkQGYWzkkI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"IO1lKK\">He attended Creighton instead, earning Second-Team All-American status in 1964 after leading the NCAA in rebounds the year prior. The Hawks drafted him just before moving to Atlanta, battling the <a class=\"ql-autolink\" data-autolink-id=\"7d73200d059d41abe18dfb09d08c9d18\" data-autolink-href=\"https:\/\/www.silverscreenandroll.com\">Lakers<\/a> and Warriors in the west, but never escaping the conference to meet his idol in the Finals. Atlanta traded him to Phoenix after his first season there and he became a 1972 all-star before the Celtics traded for him to cement their championship core. Silas went on to win the 1979 title with the Seattle SuperSonic after Boston traded him.<\/p>\n<p id=\"zaQZ6U\">Silas nearly returned to the Celtics in 1995 after the player, who retired in 1980, spent time in New Jersey and New York as an assistant coach, similar, as Stephen notes, to his own journey.<\/p>\n<p id=\"3jCDNC\">\u201cI wasn\u2019t blessed to be an NBA player and I was blessed to be my father\u2019s son, so I could empathize and see how he handled players and do my best to do my Paul Silas impression at times. He was just such a good, good man,\u201d Stephen said. \u201cAs far as the receptions we\u2019ve gotten and the tributes that have happened and the pin and all the moments of silence. We always thought he was great, we always thought he was a great man, and for everybody to see it the same way that we see it is really, really just a great thing and I\u2019m proud, like I said the first night I came back, I\u2019m so proud to be his son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Stephen Silas Calls Celtics &#039;Classy&#039; for Honoring His Father, Paul Silas\" width=\"788\" height=\"443\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yApEPlWUsQA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p id=\"nOjvtL\"><strong>M.L. Carr<\/strong> coached Boston instead, and Silas joined his former teammate Cowens in Charlotte, becoming an interim head coach and making the state his new home, coaching them as they moved to New Orleans, then eventually joining the new Charlotte Bobcats.<\/p>\n<p id=\"JLUHiI\">When <strong>Robert Williams<\/strong> hauled in 15 rebounds in 21 minutes during Tuesday\u2019s win over the Rockets, he became the first Celtics player to do so since \u2014 Paul Silas.<\/p>\n<p id=\"TFGYID\">\u201cHow about that? Tip of the hat to Robert Williams for that,\u201d Silas said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2014 Stephen Silas was born in Boston in 1973, shortly before Paul Silas won two championships with the Celtics in 1974 and 1976. That triggers memories each time he enters TD Garden, seeing those banners, but Tuesday\u2019s embrace hit different. 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