Paul T. Silas

(1943- ) lived in Omaha. Professional basketball player, coach, played 16 seasons in the National Basketball Association, and NBA championships with Boston Celtics in 1974 and 1976 and the Seattle SuperSonics in 1979, ranks as 16th on all-time list of most rebounds, has served as head coach for professional teams for 10 seasons and 355 wins and 400 losses. Consult Sports Illustrated, May 28, 1979, p. 30 and People, April 7, 1980, p. 56 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Basketball and Other Indoor Sports (Greenwood Press, 1989) 278-280 and Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, November 25, 2001, p. C-3 and Who’s Who in America, Vol 2 (2004) 4783.

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