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.
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The fourth of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 2, which has has had a total of 23 players wear the number in the history of the team.
Brooklyn Nets forward Tyler Cook fights through the defense against the Dallas Mavericks, Feb. 27, 2021 in Brooklyn.
The 21st of those players wearing No. 2 did so in the Brooklyn Nets era, forward alum Tyler Cook. After ending his college career at the University of Iowa, Cook went unselected in the 2019 NBA draft, instead electing to sign with the Cleveland Cavaliers as a free agent.
He would also play for the Denver Nuggets before signing a 10-day deal with the Nets in 2021. His stay would span 4 games before he would move on to join the Detroit Pistons as a free agent at the start of the 2021-22 NBA season.
During his time suiting up for the Nets, Cook wore only jersey 2, and put up 0.5 points per game.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets jersey history No. 2 – Tyler Cook (2021)