How do we rise when we are robbed of our greatest strengths?

This is the question at the heart of Brian Grant’s journey, from blue-collar NBA enforcer to a man confronting Parkinson’s disease at 36, with Ric Bucher capturing every raw, unguarded step along the way. Through battles in the paint, struggles at home, and moments of deep doubt and unexpected courage—including a climb up Mount St. Helens alongside others living with Parkinson’s—the book traces how Grant learned to redefine toughness, ask for help, and rebuild a sense of purpose when the playbook ran out. Taken together, these scenes and reflections become a moving exploration of how we absorb life’s hardest blows, how we rise after the fall, and how true strength is learning how to reinvent ourselves in order to survive.

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Brian Grant spent twelve years in the NBA outmuscling giants in the paint, but nothing prepared him for the moment a mysterious tremor signaled a battle he couldn’t win with strength alone. From small-town Ohio to the roaring arenas of Sacramento, Portland, and Miami, Grant’s journey was fueled by grit, sacrifice, and a blue-collar will to do the dirty work that stars wouldn’t. Then, at the height of his post-career life, a diagnosis of young-onset Parkinson’s disease forced him to confront a new reality and redefine what courage, purpose, and toughness truly mean. With the help of veteran sports journalist Ric Bucher, Rebound chronicles the injuries, mistakes, addictions, and turning points that led Grant to climb a volcano with others living with Parkinson’s, rebuild broken relationships, and find what really matters when the cheering stops.

Rebound is organized around the pivotal “tests” that reshaped Grant’s life—the injuries, the mistakes, the diagnosis, and the decision to climb a volcano with five others living with Parkinson’s, just to prove to himself that he could still push past his limits. Each test reveals a lesson that speaks to athletes, caregivers, and anyone blindsided by adversity, including:

Don’t let what you’ve lost blind you to what you still have.

The toughest opponents aren’t the ones you can see.

Only you can decide how your story with illness will be told; and

Real toughness means letting others in.

These truths are illuminated through raw, unfiltered stories of locker rooms and hospital rooms, contract negotiations and family conversations, private breakdowns and public comebacks. Taken together, the stories and insights in Rebound offer a powerful look at how a life built on physical strength can become something deeper, wiser, and more durable when that strength is stripped away.