During his time suiting up for the Nets, McAdoo wore only jersey No. 21 and put up 9.3 points, 2.6 rebounds, and 1.0 assists 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 22nd of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 21, which has has had a total of 26 players wear the number in the history of the team.
The sixth of those players wearing No. 21 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, Hall of Fame big man Bob McAdoo. After ending his college career at UNC, McAdoo was picked up with the second overall selection of the 1972 NBA draft by the (then) Buffalo Braves (now, Boston Celtics - it's a long story).
The Greensboro, North Carolina native would play parts of the first five seasons in the NBA with the Braves. He would also have stints with the New York Knicks, Celtics, and Detroit Pistons before signing with New Jersey in 1981.
His stay with the team would span just 10 games before he'd be on the move again, this time to the Los Angeles Lakers. During his time suiting up for the Nets, McAdoo wore only jersey No. 21 and put up 9.3 points, 2.6 rebounds, and 1.0 assists per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets jersey history No. 21 - Bob McAdoo (1981)
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