THE Brooklyn fillets have 52 jersey numbers worn by greater than 600 totally different gamers throughout their historical past because the franchise’s inception in 1967 as a founding member of the American Basketball Affiliation (ABA), when the group was generally known as the “New Jersey Individuals.”
Since then, this league has been absorbed by the NBA with the group that will later grow to be New York Nets And New Jersey Nets earlier than selecting the identify they’re recognized by right now, bringing with them their wealthy enjoying and jersey historical past into right now’s league.
To commemorate the gamers who performed for the Nets over the a long time, sporting these 52 totally different jersey numbers, Nets Wire covers the complete historical past of the franchise’s jersey numbers and the gamers who’ve worn them because the group’s inception. The fourth of those 52 totally different numbers is the No. 2 jersey, on which a complete of 23 gamers have worn this quantity in group historical past.
The 14th of those gamers sporting quantity 2 did so through the New Jersey Nets period, former level guard Jordan Farmar. After ending his NCAA profession at UCLA. Farmar was chosen with the twenty sixth total choice within the 2006 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Los Angeles, California native performed the primary 4 seasons of his skilled profession with the Lakers, leaving the group in free company to signal with the Nets in 2010.
His keep in New Jersey lasted two seasons, after which he left to play a season within the Israeli Basketball Tremendous League. Whereas suiting up for the Nets, Farmar solely wore jersey No. 2 and averaged 9.9 factors, 2.1 rebounds and 4.4 assists per sport.
This text was initially printed on Nets Wire: Historical past of the Nets #2 jersey – Jordan Farmar (2006-10)
