- Harvey Grant
Harvey Grant (born
July 4 1965 in Augusta, Georgia) is a retired AmericanNational Basketball Association basketball player. He is the identical twin brother ofHorace Grant , also a former NBA player.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 1991NBA Most Improved Player Award (which was earned by Orlando'sScott 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 centerKevin 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. OnJuly 15 ,1996 , he returned to the Washington Bullets via a trade, along with Blazerspoint guard Rod Strickland , for power forwardRasheed Wallace andshooting 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 thePhiladelphia 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.
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