ONE ON ONE with Brian Grant.(basketball player)(Interview)

After being traded to the Heat, Brian Grant is having his best season, averaging 15.9 points and 10.5 rebounds. On the floor, he is one of the NBA's hardest-working players. Off the floor, he is one of the most generous. His work with his foundation in Portland earned him the NBA's 1999 J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award. TSN's Sean Deveney went One-on-One with Grant, discussing snakes, generosity and the road.

TSN: I wanted to start by asking your expert opinion. How does one go about growing dreadlocks?

BG: Well, there are two ways you can do it. You can do it the natural way, that is, grow your hair out and don't comb it. Never comb it. Just wash it, dry it and just kind of mess it up, and don't comb it.

TSN: It just happens naturally that way?

BG: It will, but that's a long process. The other way is just getting it twisted and having a locktician do it, somebody who knows how to lock hair.

TSN: You're pretty tough on the floor. What's something off the floor that you're afraid of?.

BG: Snakes. When I was a kid, I was running through my grandmother's neighbor's back yard, and I stepped my left foot down and I felt something tightening up on it. I looked down and I had stepped on a garter snake nest. This big garter snake, the mom, just wrapped around my leg and started biting me. And all these little ones were shooting out through the grass. So here I am, running across the grass screaming with this big snake on my leg.