But Silva is still trying to accept the fact that he will need to move forward without Tommy Sacks, who suffered a heart attack and died on May 11 at age 60. Sacks was the associate head coach for the boys’ basketball team at Roselle Catholic High in New Jersey, where Silva attended high school. “He meant a lot,” an emotional Silva said of Sacks, who was married with four children. “He was like a father figure to me.”