During his time suiting up for the Nets, Dudley wore only jersey Nos. 52 and 22 and put up 5.4 points, 8.2 rebounds, and 1.9 blocks per game.
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 20th of those players wearing No. 22 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, big man alum Chris Dudley. After ending his college career at Yale, Dudley was picked up with the 75th overall selection (there were many more rounds in that era of the draft) of the 1987 NBA Draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The Stamford, Connecticut native would play parts of the first three seasons of his pro career with the Cavs. That ended with a trade to New Jersey in 1990, and his stay with the team spanned parts of four seasons, coming to an end when he signed with the Portland Trail Blazers in 1993.
During his time suiting up for the Nets, Dudley wore only jersey Nos. 52 and 22 and put up 5.4 points, 8.2 rebounds, and 1.9 blocks per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets jersey history No. 22 - Chris Dudley (1990-93)
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