The scene would play out before every South Carolina basketball practice.



Coaches and players could always count on hearing a banging noise on the glass walls of the weight room. As they got closer, it grew louder. The doors were locked so power forward Chris Silva hammered on the windows for minutes to show how eager he was to start lifting.



It stopped when strength and conditioning coach Scott Greenawalt arrived with the keys to the facility. Only then, could Silva relax.



“In my 22 years of coaching, I had never had a guy like this,” Greenawalt said. “When he got to me, that dude was 110 miles per hour. I loved when he came in. He would just get the whole room going. Dudes would get exposed if they didn’t bring that energy. Because of him, they’d just stick out.”



Silva, an undrafted rookie, has needed just three NBA games to produce a similar effect with the Miami Heat. A few days after he was awarded a two-way...