Gary Grant

Who is Gary Grant?

Gary Grant is a retired American professional basketball player at the point guard position in the NBA.

Gary "The General" Grant played for Canton McKinley High School and collegiately at the University of Michigan. Gary received his BA in Kinesiology.

He was selected in the 1988 NBA Draft by the Seattle SuperSonics, but was traded to the Los Angeles Clippers before the 1988-89 season started. There he remained for seven years before moving on to the New York Knicks, the Miami Heat, and the Portland Trail Blazers. While playing for the Clippers, he was featured in the 1992 film Miracle Beach.

During the 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season while playing for the 2010–11 Michigan Wolverines team, Darius Morris surpassed Grant's school record single-season assist total set for the 1987–88 team. The following season Trey Burke broke Grant's freshman season assist total record. Grant continues to hold several Michigan records including career starts, career assists, career steals, career minutes, career turnovers, single-season assists per game, single-season steals, single-season turnovers, single-game assists, and single-game steals.