On June 22, 1987, the National Basketball League (NBA) held its annual draft. With the tenth overall pick, the Chicago Bulls selected Horace Grant, a forward out of Clemson University. That may have disappointed the Washington Bullets, who two picks later, weren't able to select Horace -- he was already gone. But a year later, they got the next best thing. On June 28, 1988, the Bullets took Harvey Grant -- Horace's identical twin brother -- with the 12th overall pick.

At the time, telling the two apart was difficult -- but that changed before the 1990-91 NBA season. Let's see if you can tell the difference between the two. Here's a picture of them both on the court, looking up at the ball (I assume). 

Horace recalls “one night after the game on the bus I’m reading a book and I had the book like three inches away from my face. And Johnny Bach, who was one of our defensive assistants, came up and said, ‘You need to get your eyes checked again.'” Following instructions, Horace goes on, “The next day I go in and I’m legally blind!” Despite passing the initial hearing and eyesight exam from the Bulls, Dr. David Orth determined Horace’s eyes were 20-40 in one and 20-80 in the other. Horace was declared legally blind, thus “the goggles were born”.

I kept wearing them without the prescription lenses because I had grandparents and parents come up to me and thank me for wearing them. Their kids and grandkids would get made fun of by wearing protective eyewear playing sports, so I kept wearing them to help make it cool to wear goggles for the kids.