Growing up in rural Alabama as part of the segregated South, he practiced his basketball shot using a tennis ball and a cutout five-gallon bucket as a makeshift rim.
He attended Barbour County High School in Clayton, Alabama. As a senior, he was offered an opportunity to transfer to a white school, but he instead opted to stay put.
Grant accepted a basketball scholarship from NAIA Kentucky State University, because of his relationship with head coach Lucias Mitchell, turning down other offers.

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