Panathinaikos Athens has landed Jerian Grant, the 2022-23 7DAYS EuroCup MVP, on a one-year deal, the club announced Monday. Grant (1.96 meters, 30 years old) arrives from Turk Telekom Ankara, which he guided to last season's EuroCup Final. Across 22 games in the competition with Turk Telekom, the American guard averaged 14.9 points, 3.2 rebounds, 6.1 assists, 1.3 steals and an 18.7 PIR. Now, Grant prepares to head back to the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague, where he played in the 2021-22 season for EA7 Emporio Armani Milan. He becomes Panathinaikos's seventh addition to its playing roster this summer, following the arrivals of Kostas Antetokounmpo, Dimitris Moraitis, Mathias Lessort, Luca Vildoza, Konstantinos Mitoglou and Kostas Sloukas.
Panathinaikos acquires EuroCup MVP Jerian Grant
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His family and early beginnings in the NBA
A member of a famed basketball family in which his father, uncle and two of his brothers played (and still play) professionally, Jerian played five seasons in the NBA with the New York Knicks, the Chicago Bulls, the Washington Wizards and the Orlando Magic. He spent time in the G League with the Windy City Bulls and the Capital City Go-Go, too.
Jerian Grant's journey to OAKA
Then, on December 31, 2020, Grant signed a deal to come to Europe for the first time with Promitheas Patras. He took to European basketball like a duck to water, averaging 14.8 points, 4.2 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 2.2 steals in 27 Greek League games. Those performances caught the attention of Milan, which gave him a chance to appear in the EuroLeague for the first time. In mainly a bench role across his 26 appearances in the 2021-22 EuroLeague season, Grant averaged just 2.8 points, 0.7 rebounds, 0.7 assists and 0.3 steals in 12:23 minutes on the court. Yet, in the Italian League, those averages improved to 7.4 points, 1.9 rebounds, 2.7 assists and 0.9 steals in 21:50 minutes across 36 games, with Grant helping the team lift the league title that year.
Last season, he joined Turk Telekom and found his feet once again, shining in both the EuroCup and the Turkish League. In addition to his statistics of 14.9 points, 3.2 rebounds, 6.1 assists, 1.3 steals and an 18.7 PIR in the EuroCup, he averaged 16.4 points, 3.6 rebounds, 5.7 assists and 1.2 steals in Turk Telekom's domestic games. Now, Grant has the chance to make amends in the EuroLeague as part of Panathinaikos's new project, which is being led by two-time champion head coach Ergin Ataman.