Harvey Grant
Harvey Grant was born in Augusta, Georgia, United States on July 4th, 1965 and is the Basketball Player. At the age of 58, Harvey Grant biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Harvey Grant (born July 4, 1965) is a retired American National Basketball Association basketball player.
He is the identical twin brother of Horace Grant, who is also a former NBA player.
Personal life
Jerai, Grant's son who attended Clemson University, the same school that Harvey attended before moving to Oklahoma, has since competed in professional leagues in Australia, Italy, Israel, Latvia, and Lithuania. Jerian's younger brother played for the University of Notre Dame and was chosen by the New York Knicks in the 1st round of the 2015 NBA Draft, and Jerami's younger brother, Jerami, played for the Syracuse University before being drafted 39th overall by the Philadelphia 76ers in the 2014 NBA draft. Jerami was drafted by the Oklahoma City Thunder on November 1, 2016, and spent three seasons in Oklahoma City before being traded to the Denver Nuggets on July 8, 2019. Jaelin Grant is his youngest son. Mikayla Mitchell, Harvey Grant's daughter, was born in 2005 with ex-girlfriend Karen Mitchell.
Grant is also a grandfather to Jerai's daughter, Halle.
Career
Selected twelfth overall by the Washington Bullets in the 1988 NBA draft out of Oklahoma, Grant 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, Grant 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, Grant 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.
Grant 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.
Grant was traded just before the 1999–00 season along with Anthony Parker to the Orlando Magic for Billy Owens, who had previously been sent to the Magic in a trade that sent brother Horace to the Seattle SuperSonics. He subsequently was waived by the team and retired from the league afterwards.
Never proficient as a rebounder in comparison with his brother, he holds career averages of 4.4 rebounds and 9.9 points per game.