American basketball player
Kenneth Grant is an American-Swedish former professional basketball player and coach.
Career
A native of New York, Grant attended Saint Peter's College. From 1965 to 1968, he saw action in a total of 75 games for the Peacocks.[1] A 6'1 forward, Grant helped Saint Peter's men's basketball team advance to the National Invitational Tournament semifinals in 1968. The 1967-68 Peacock team was inducted into the Saint Peter's University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016.[2] As an individual, Grant was inducted in 2001.[3]
After college, he worked a teacher,[4] before joining a basketball tour team compiled by Jim McGregor.[5] Grant went to Sweden in 1972 to play professional basketball. He was a member of the Hageby BK team in Norrköping between 1972 and 1983. In 1980, he won the Swedish national championship with the club[6] and subsequently competed in the FIBA Champions' Cup.[7]
Grant received Swedish citizenship[8] and participated in the 1983 European Championships.[9] The same year, he accepted an offer from France, joining Le Mans Sarthe Basket. He played for the Le Mans side in 1983-84[10] and later became the team's coach. Other coaching stints in France include Stade Français and Élan Béarnais Pau-Orthez.[11] He also held coach's clinics in African countries.[12]
Grant got into agent business,[8] in the early 2000s, he and his family moved to Lido Beach, New York. Grant and his wife, whom he met in Sweden, have three children.[13] Son Kenny Grant Junior attended Davidson College before embarking on a career in professional basketball.[14]
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