During his time suiting up for the Nets, Scalabrine wore only jersey No. 21 and put up 3.9 points, 2.9 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 second of those players wearing No. 21 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, big man alum Brian Scalabrine. After ending his college career at USC, Scalabrine was picked up with the 35th overall selection of the 2001 NBA Draft by the Nets.
The Long Beach, California native would play the first four seasons of his pro career with New Jersey before he would sign with the Boston Celtics in 2005.
During his time suiting up for the Nets, Scalabrine wore only jersey No. 21 and put up 3.9 points, 2.9 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 - Brian Scalabrine (2001-05)
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