During his time suiting up for the Nets, Thomas wore only jersey Nos. 20 and 22 and put up 3.2 points and 1.2 rebounds 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 21st of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 20, which has has had a total of 28 players wear the number in the history of the team.
The 19th of those players wearing No. 20 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, wing alum Billy Thomas. After ending his college career at Kansas, Thomas would go unselected in the 1998 NBA draft, signing with the Nets instead in 2005 after playing in other domestic leagues and abroad.
His first stay with the team would span 25 games, coming to an end when he returned to play in the D-League (as the G League was known then), the Shreveport, Louisiana native playing for the Washington Wizards, abroad, and in the G League before returning to New Jersey for another four games in 2007 before being cut.
During his time suiting up for the Nets, Thomas wore only jersey Nos. 20 and 22 and put up 3.2 points and 1.2 rebounds per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets jersey history No. 20 - Billy Thomas (2005)
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