🥽Goggles power🥽
Horace Grant
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Horace Grant was a key member of the early 90s Chicago Bulls teams that won three straight NBA championships. He was consistently the third-best player on the team behind Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen. Good but not legendary.
What Grant may be best known for is his signature look, oversized athletic goggles. If he wasn’t 6’ 10” and wearing an NBA jersey, he’d look like someone who would be worried about getting their lunch money stolen. His vision was just above the legal threshold for driving in Illinois.
Anyone who’s worn Rec Specs knows how uncomfortable they can be. They hinder your peripheral vision, can fog up and it doesn’t feel great when they get hit. Eventually, Grant had corrective eye surgery but continued wearing the goggles without the prescription lenses.
Several years ago, he shared during a Reddit AMA the reason he didn’t drop goggles:
The most generous thing you can do is embrace the oddest part of yourself because it gives others the freedom to be who they are.
It’s not hyperbole to say Horace Grant’s goggles meant more to some people than Michael Jordan’s fadeaway jump shot.
