Michael James Grosso (born July 23, 1947, in

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player.

Career

Grosso played for the

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of the American Basketball Association in the 1971–72 season. Previously, he had been drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers in the third round of the

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, the Kentucky Colonels in the

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and the

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in the fifth round of the

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. After the Pittsburgh Condors disbanded following the 1971–72 ABA season, Grosso was taken by the Carolina Cougars in the 1972 ABA Dispersal Draft, but the Cougars did not sign him.Mike Grosso at DatabaseBasketball.com
Grosso played at the collegiate level at the

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. He had been recruited by

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at the University of South Carolina, but was denied admission by the ACC.

References

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