{"id":168889,"date":"2019-09-18T15:43:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T22:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilcomprd.wpengine.com\/?p=168889"},"modified":"2020-11-10T14:44:29","modified_gmt":"2020-11-10T22:44:29","slug":"big3s-xavier-silas-joins-delaware-blue-coats-as-assistant-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/big3s-xavier-silas-joins-delaware-blue-coats-as-assistant-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"BIG3's Xavier Silas Joins Delaware Blue Coats As Assistant Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier Silas, a former NBA, G-League and current BIG3 player, is joining the Delaware Blue Coats, according to league sources (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyleNeubeck\/status\/1174392365940912128\">Kyle Neubeck first<\/a>). This puts Silas in rare company as one of the first BIG3 players to make the transition to coaching in the NBA\u2019s G-League.<\/p>\n<p>Less than a month ago, Silas was BIG3 player of the week and is now moving to coach at the G-League level. A former player for the Philadelphia 76ers in 2011, Silas will be coming on as an assistant coach with their G-League affiliate and said \u201cthe Blue Coats have a great history of promoting and growing coaches. I played in Philadelphia and love it here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On top of the BIG3, Silas runs GIVE Sports, a youth basketball program in Denver, Colorado. He says he has others who will be able to execute his vision during his time with the Blue Coats. Adding \u201cthey\u2019ll (his partners) will be an extension of me and everything I\u2019ve learned and continue to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In terms of BIG3, Silas thinks it\u2019s still possible to do. \u201cI\u2019ve seen Pargo coach and come back. 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I love the BIG3 and what Jeff and Ice Cube have built.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xavier Silas, a former NBA, G-League and current BIG3 player, is joining the Delaware Blue Coats, according to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":168893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,3],"tags":[],"featured":[],"class_list":["post-168889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-blogs","category-nba"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BIG3&#039;s Xavier Silas Joins Delaware Blue Coats As Assistant Coach - Ballislife.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ballislife.com\/big3s-xavier-silas-joins-delaware-blue-coats-as-assistant-coach\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BIG3&#039;s Xavier Silas Joins Delaware Blue Coats As Assistant Coach - 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