Here we go again. In what is a new mini series called: Family Friday, I will examine players in Sixers history who have played for the Sixers…and had a relative of theirs play for the team too. We've got father-son, brothers, and even cousins. The unofficial start of this series was the comparison of current Sixer Gerald Henderson and his father, Gerald Henderson.
This time, we will look at Jerami Grant, who played for the Sixers this season for a minute, and his father, Harvey Grant. Both of these players are related to probably the most popular Grant: Horace, who was with the early 90s Bulls with Michael Jordan and all of that. The Grant family has some nice genes.
Alright, so this comparison is going to be pretty interesting. Unlike the Henderson's, both of these players' careers with the Sixers have ended (Jerami could come back, but who knows) so these stats are final.
First, Harvey. He played 47 games with the Sixers. His averages were…oh…oh yuck! Let me double check that. Okay, 3.1 points, 2.3 rebounds, and 0.3 blocks. This is from a 6 foot 8 power forward. Now, at the time, Harvey was 33 years old and the 1998-99 season was his last. This was his only season with the Sixers.
He shot 37 percent from the field. Lord. His numbers per game for the Sixers were career lows, quite a few of them, by far. He played 17 minutes per game, which is actually role player minutes. He even started 10 games. Ah well.
Jerami's career with the Sixers was plenty longer than dad. While his dad ended his career with the Sixers, Jerami started with the Sixers. He played in 144 games for the team. He averaged 8.2 points, 3.9 rebounds, and 1.4 blocks. Since he is the same height as his dad, we can sort of compare the stats evenly. Jerami weighed less than his dad. While his dad is known as a PF-SF combo forward, Jerami is more locked into SF, although, with the Sixers, he played PF at times. But yeah, primarily, he was a SF.
In the end, Jerami had the better career with the team, I would imagine. Harvey made the players with the Sixers, while Jerami's Sixers were on an epic tank run and were losing on historic levels, but looking at stats, I gotta give it to Jerami. Both players shot less than 40 percent from the field though, which is interesting. Jerami shot 39 percent. Technically, Jerami was the better shooter from 3 point range, but 28 percent vs 17 percent ain't that big of a deal on the grand scheme of things where both of these players would be considered not good from that range.
So, who is up next? I guess you'll have to find out next time on Family Friday. This is really fun. I learned some stuff.
