From the outside looking in, Pat Connaughton and Jerian Grant don’t appear to have much in common.
Connaughton grew up as a physical three-sport athlete from blue collar New England, was a 2014 draftee of the MLB’s Baltimore Orioles, and comes from a long line of New England baseball and football lineage.
The son of former NBA player Harvey Grant (and nephew of NBA champion Horace Grant) Jerian Grant intense basketball bloodlines. An electrifying playmaker that matriculated through Maryland’s prestigious DeMatha Catholic High School, Grant's life has primarily focused around hoops.
But the two rookies, who spent the past four years together in South Bend, Indiana, couldn’t be closer.