Same Warrior, New Battle: Brian Grant Won't Back Down From Parkinson's Disease

[SlyPokerDog]

https://www.si.com/nba/2018/05/02/b...se-trail-blazers-heat-michael-j-fox-pat-riley

 

[dviss1]

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."

 

[riverman]

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.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

One of my favorite Blazers ever.

 

[TorturedBlazerFan]

I wish more Athletes and people in general were like him.

 

[CupWizier]

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.

 

[Chris Craig]

Keep fighting BG!

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

There's a 65 year old or so guy at the gym that must have Parkinson's. Pretty inspiring really.

 

[kjironman1]

When i think of Brian Grant i think about him right in Karl Malone's face.

 

[Wizard Mentor]

More really interesting things about Brian in his TEDx Portland talk: