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 27th of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 26, which has has had a total of four players wear the number in the history of the team.
The first of those players wearing No. 26 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, wing alum Awvee Storey. After ending his college career at Arizona State, Storey would go unselected in the 2002 NBA Draft, instead playing abroad until he signed with New Jersey in 2004.
His stay with the team would span just nine games before he was cut by the team.
During his time suiting up for the Nets, Storey wore only jersey No. 26 and put up 0.9 points per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
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This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Brooklyn Nets jersey history No. 26 – Awvee Storey (2004)
Reporting by Justin Quinn, Nets Wire / Nets Wire
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