Stephen Silas, 35, is currently in his third season as an assistant coach for the Golden State Warriors, marking his eighth season overall as an NBA assistant coach.

With the Warriors, Silas concentrates on the development of perimeter players as well as game preparation and managing the team’s offensive and defensive playbook.

Prior to joining the Warriors, Silas served as an advance scout for the Washington Wizards during the 2005-06 season after spending five seasons on the coaching staffs of his father, Paul Silas, with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the New Orleans/Charlotte Hornets. The younger Silas served as an assistant coach for the Cavaliers during the 2003-04 & 2004-05 campaigns, where he was charged with individual skill work, player development, game preparation, pre-game walkthroughs as well as managing and developing technology and NBA scouting systems for the coaching staff. Silas also served as head coach for the Cavaliers 2003 Summer League teams in Boston and Orlando.

Prior to joining the Cavaliers, Silas spent the previous three seasons as an assistant coach with the Hornets. At the time of his hiring as an assistant with the Hornets on June 5, 2000, he was the youngest assistant in the NBA at the age of 27. Silas originally joined the Hornets in the summer of 1999 as an advance and college scout, scouting nearly 200 NBA and college games in that role. Additionally, he served as the head coach for the Hornets Summer League squad at the 2002 Orlando Summer Pro League.

In addition to his work with NBA teams, Silas coached at the 2007 NBA Pre-Draft camp in Orlando. He served as a coach at the NBA’s Basketball Without Borders camp in Africa this past summer, as well as in Beijing, China during the summer of 2005. He also represented the NBA Coaches Association at the Dirk Nowitzki Basketball Academy in Berlin, Germany, in July of 2004 and served as a coach at the 2003 NBA Pre-Draft Camp. Prior to joining the NBA, Silas spent three years as the assistant executive director of the National Basketball Retired Players Association (NBRPA) in Providence, Rhode Island. In that role, he organized many events and served as a liaison between the NBA and its former players.

The Boston native graduated from Brown University in 1996 with Bachelor’s Degrees in sociology and management. He played four seasons for the Bears basketball team.

Silas and his wife, Keryl, were married in 2002 and are the proud parents of their two daughters, Kyler Elyse and Kaelyn.