Lakers jersey history No. 33 — Travis Grant

Through the 2024-25 season, the Los Angeles Lakers have had a total of 506 players suit up for them, going back to their days in Minneapolis. Some were forgettable, some were serviceable, some were good and a select few were flat-out legendary.

During the Lakers' 80th season of existence (they were founded back in 1946 as the Detroit Gems in the National Basketball League), LeBron Wire is taking a look at each player who has worn their jersey, whether it has been a purple and gold one or the ones they donned back in the Midwest during their early years.

Coming off their first NBA championship since moving to Los Angeles, the Lakers took Travis Grant with the No. 13 pick in the 1972 draft. He had been a volume scorer at Kentucky State University, an NAIA school, where he scored a total of 4,045 points, which was 378 more than Pete Maravich. Maravich had been the all-time leading scorer in the history of Division I college basketball until Caitlin Clark broke his record in 2024.

Grant wasn't quite as successful in the pros as he was in college. He averaged 3.8 points in 4.6 minutes a game as a rookie, and early in his second season, he was waived by the Lakers. He spent the rest of the 1973-74 campaign with the San Diego Conquistadors of the American Basketball Association (ABA). In San Diego, he was able to spread his wings a bit, as he didn't have to defer to Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain or Gail Goodrich of the Lakers.

The 6-foot-7 forward averaged 25.2 points a game during the 1974-75 season in San Diego. The following season, he played for the Kentucky Colonels and Indiana Pacers before his pro basketball career ended.

For his career, Grant averaged 13.8 points and 4.1 rebounds in 21.4 minutes a game across both the NBA and ABA.

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