Harvey Grant
| No. 44 | |
|---|---|
| Small forward / Power forward | |
| Personal information | |
| Born |
July 4, 1965 Augusta, Georgia |
| Nationality | American |
| Listed height | 6 ft 8 in (203 cm) |
| Listed weight | 195 lb (88 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school | Hancock Central (Sparta, Georgia) |
| College |
Clemson (1984–1985) Independence CC (1985–1986) Oklahoma (1986–1988) |
| NBA draft | 1988 / Round: 1 / Pick: 12th overall |
| Selected by the Washington Bullets | |
| Pro playing career | 1988–1999 |
| Career history | |
| 1988–1993 | Washington Bullets |
| 1993–1996 | Portland Trail Blazers |
| 1996–1998 | Washington Bullets / Wizards |
| 1999 | Philadelphia 76ers |
| Career NBA statistics | |
| Points | 7,781 (9.9 ppg) |
| Rebounds | 3,436 (4.4 rpg) |
| Assists | 1,219 (1.6 apg) |
| Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |
Harvey Grant (born July 4, 1965) is a retired American National Basketball Association basketball player. He is the identical twin brother of Horace Grant, also a former NBA player.[1]
Selected twelfth overall by the Washington Bullets in the 1988 NBA Draft out of Oklahoma, he averaged 5.6 points, 2.3 rebounds and 1.1 assists per game. He lifted his averages to 8.2 points, 4.2 rebounds and 1.6 assists the following season, in 1989–90. Grant improved markedly in the 1990-91 campaign, when he averaged 18.2 points, 7.2 rebounds, 2.6 assists and 1.18 steals per game. At season's end, he was runner-up to the 1991 NBA Most Improved Player Award (which was earned by Orlando's Scott Skiles). In two subsequent seasons, he continued his solid play with 18.0 and 18.6 points per contest in 1991–92 and 1992–93, respectively.
In 1993 he was traded to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for center Kevin Duckworth, where he was instead utilized in a secondary role off the bench, and in three seasons with Portland, averaged 9.6 points per game. On July 15, 1996, he returned to the Washington Bullets via a trade, along with Blazers point guard Rod Strickland, for power forward Rasheed Wallace and shooting guard Mitchell Butler. By this stage Grant's career was on a downslide, averaging 4.1 points in 1996–97, then slipping to 2.6 points the following season when the Bullets franchise had reinvented itself as the Wizards. He rounded out his professional career with the Philadelphia 76ers in the lockout-shortened 1999 NBA season, averaging 3.1 points and 2.3 rebounds in 47 of 50 possible games. He subsequently retired from the league.
Never as proficient a rebounder in comparison with his brother Horace, he holds career averages of 4.4 rebounds and 9.9 points per game.
Grant transferred to Oklahoma after a year in junior college and a year at Clemson with his brother Horace.[2]
Family
His son Jerai, who played college basketball for Clemson University, the same school that Harvey attended before transferring to Oklahoma,[3] joined the Australasian NBL's Sydney Kings in 2011.[4] Another son, Jerian, plays for the University of Notre Dame Fighting Irish men's basketball team,[5] and a younger son, Jerami, plays for the Syracuse University Orange men's basketball team.[5]
Grant is also a grandfather to Jerai's daughter, Halle.[6]
References
- ↑ Duke Basketball Report - The unofficial home of Duke basketball fans and the Cameron Crazies
- ↑ http://www.stellarcollegebballgame.com/1988Oklahoma.html Greatest College Basketball Teams: Spotlight 1988 Oklahoma
- ↑ "Senior forward Jerai Grant emerging as pleasant inside surprise", www.orangeandwhite.com, January 11, 2011.
- ↑ National Basketball League | Sydney Kings: Sydney Kings' Jerai Grant arrives in town
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Jerami Grant Commits To Syracuse, Class Of 2012 Officially In Session - Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician
- ↑ Sydney Kings import Jerai Grant keen to extend stay in Australia | thetelegraph.com.au
External links
- Career statistics and player information from NBA.com
- Harvey Grant at Basketball-Reference.com