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The Brooklyn Nets have 52 jersey numbers worn by over 600 different players over the course of their history since the franchise was founded in 1967 as a charter member of the American Basketball Association (ABA), when the team was known as the "New Jersey Americans".
Since then, that league has been absorbed by the NBA with the team that would later become the New York Nets and New Jersey Nets before settling on the name by which they are known today, bringing their rich player and jersey history with them to the league of today.
To commemorate the players who played for the Nets over the decades wearing those 52 different jersey numbers, Nets Wire is covering the entire history of the franchise's jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team. The 13th of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 11 which has has had a total of 19 players wear the number in the history of the team.
The first of those players wearing No. 11 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, guard alum Sherman Douglas. After ending his college career at Syracuse, Douglas was picked up with the 28th overall selection of the 1989 NBA draft by the Miami Heat.
The Washington, District of Columbia native would play parts of the first 3 seasons of his pro career with the Heat, as well as stints with the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks before the first of his two stints with the Nets, beginning when he signed with New Jersey in 1997.
After a season, he'd sign with the Los Angeles Clippers before returning to New Jersey for the final 2 seasons of his NBA career. During his time suiting up for the Nets, Douglas wore only jersey Nos. 20 and 11 and put up 6.9 points, 1.5 rebounds, and 3.1 assists per game.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets jersey history No. 11 - Sherman Douglas (2000-01)
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Since then, that league has been absorbed by the NBA with the team that would later become the New York Nets and New Jersey Nets before settling on the name by which they are known today, bringing their rich player and jersey history with them to the league of today.
To commemorate the players who played for the Nets over the decades wearing those 52 different jersey numbers, Nets Wire is covering the entire history of the franchise's jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team. The 13th of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 11 which has has had a total of 19 players wear the number in the history of the team.
The first of those players wearing No. 11 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, guard alum Sherman Douglas. After ending his college career at Syracuse, Douglas was picked up with the 28th overall selection of the 1989 NBA draft by the Miami Heat.
The Washington, District of Columbia native would play parts of the first 3 seasons of his pro career with the Heat, as well as stints with the Boston Celtics and Milwaukee Bucks before the first of his two stints with the Nets, beginning when he signed with New Jersey in 1997.
After a season, he'd sign with the Los Angeles Clippers before returning to New Jersey for the final 2 seasons of his NBA career. During his time suiting up for the Nets, Douglas wore only jersey Nos. 20 and 11 and put up 6.9 points, 1.5 rebounds, and 3.1 assists per game.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets jersey history No. 11 - Sherman Douglas (2000-01)
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