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Chris Silva skies high for a slam against Duke in the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n
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Chris Silva goes for a defensive block against Georgia’s Derek Ogbeide.<\/p>\n
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After going through the NBA draft process, Chris Silva has decided to take his name out of the draft and return to the University of South Carolina.<\/p>\n
The senior forward took the month of May to see if he was NBA-ready. He did interviews and workouts with the Oklahoma City Thunder, Milwaukee Bucks, and Brooklyn Nets.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst and foremost, I got to get better. There is a lot of stuff I need to learn and improve on,\u201d said Silva.<\/p>\n
He talked about the process as a great learning experience for him and said that it will only make him a better player going into his senior year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n He is excited to be coming back to play in the Gamecock garnet and black and feels that one more year with this coaching staff will only benefit him.<\/p>\n \u201cI have another year with all of these great coaches that helped me throughout my freshman year as a basketball player and as a man. It\u2019s a pleasure to have another year with them.\u201d<\/p>\n Silva led the Gamecocks in scoring (14.3), rebounds (8), and blocked shots (1.4).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chris Silva is excited to be coming back for his senior year as a Gamecock. He feels that the NBA draft process has made him better and he learned a lot about what he needs to do to get better. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":10687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[62,38,69],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10683"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10902,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10683\/revisions\/10902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolinanewsandreporter.cic.sc.edu\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}