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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 15th of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 13 which has has had a total of 18 players wear the number in the history of the team.
The third of those players wearing No. 13 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, wing alum Kendall Gill. After ending his college career at Illinois, Gill was picked up with the fifth overall selection of the 1990 NBA draft by the Charlotte Hornets.
The Chicago, Illinois native would play the first three seasons of his pro career with the Hornets, as well as two with the Seattle SuperSonics and a return to Charlotte for a season before he was dealt to New Jersey in 1996. His stay with the team would span parts of six seasons, ending when he signed with the Miami Heat in 2001.
During his time suiting up for the Nets, Gill wore only jersey No. 13 and put up 14.9 points, 4.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and 2.0 steals per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets jersey history No. 13 - Kendall Gill (1996-2001)
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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 15th of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 13 which has has had a total of 18 players wear the number in the history of the team.
The third of those players wearing No. 13 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, wing alum Kendall Gill. After ending his college career at Illinois, Gill was picked up with the fifth overall selection of the 1990 NBA draft by the Charlotte Hornets.
The Chicago, Illinois native would play the first three seasons of his pro career with the Hornets, as well as two with the Seattle SuperSonics and a return to Charlotte for a season before he was dealt to New Jersey in 1996. His stay with the team would span parts of six seasons, ending when he signed with the Miami Heat in 2001.
During his time suiting up for the Nets, Gill wore only jersey No. 13 and put up 14.9 points, 4.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists, and 2.0 steals per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets jersey history No. 13 - Kendall Gill (1996-2001)
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