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 23rd of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 22, which has has had a total of 31 players wear the number in the history of the team.
The second of those players wearing No. 22 played in the (then) New Jersey Americans (now, Brooklyn Nets) era, forward alum Dexter Westbrook. After ending his college career at Providence, Westbrook was picked up with the 44th overall selection of the 1967 NBA Draft by the (defunct) Baltimore Bullets.
The Mount Vernon, New York native instead signed with the ABA’s Americans, and played seven games for the team before he would leave the team to play for the (defunct) Pittsburgh Pipers.
During his time suiting up for the Americans, Westbrook wore only jersey No. 22 and put up 4.4 points and 1.3 rebounds per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.