I've met BG on a few occasions. I always knew how great of a human he was. Thank you for sharing. It made me tear up a bit. "When Dash passed, in February 1999, Brian flew in for the funeral and sat in the front row. ("It meant so much to us," says Robin.) Afterward, Brian scrawled the boy's name on his shoes. That year, the NBA honored Grant with its J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award. "He plants trees of hope wherever he goes," is how Miguel Reyes, the father of another terminally ill child Grant befriended, put it to The Miami Herald when Grant left the Blazers for Miami. "I hope your city realizes what you are getting."
awesome read....Brian Grant is right up there with Jerome Kersey in the good guy column....Ed Davis reminds me of him on a lot of levels.
BG was always a class act. I use to run into him often as my grandson played football and basketball for Putnam youth teams and BG's son played for West Linn. Always a friendly face and open to talk.
