{"id":28655,"date":"2025-05-13T01:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T01:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/28655\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T01:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T01:49:11","slug":"brooklyn-nets-jersey-history-no-14-derrick-favors-2010-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/28655\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets jersey history No. 14 – Derrick Favors (2010-11)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Brooklyn Nets<\/a>\u00a0have 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”.<\/p>\n

Since then, that league has been absorbed by the NBA with the team that would later become the New York\u00a0Nets<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0New Jersey Nets<\/a>\u00a0before settling on the name by which they are known today, bringing their rich player and jersey history with them to the league of today.<\/p>\n

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To commemorate the players who played for the\u00a0Nets<\/a>\u00a0over the decades wearing those 52 different jersey numbers,\u00a0Nets<\/a>\u00a0Wire is covering the entire history of the franchise’s jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team. The 16th of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 14 which has has had a total of 29 players wear the number in the history of the team.<\/p>\n

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Nov 15, 2010; Los Angeles, CA, USA; Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin (32) posts up on New Jersey Nets forward Derrick Favors (14) at the Staples Center. The New Jersey Nets won 110-96. Mandatory Credit: Kelvin Kuo-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n

The 16th of those players wearing No. 14 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets<\/a> era, big man alum Derrick Favors. After ending his college career at Georgia Tech, Favors was picked up with the third overall selection of the 2010 NBA draft by the Nets.<\/p>\n

The Atlanta, Georgia native would play part of the first season of his pro career with New Jersey, traded to the Utah Jazz after just 56 games played with the team that drafted him.<\/p>\n

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During his time suiting up for the Nets, Favors wore only jersey No. 14 and put up 6.8 points and 5.3 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.<\/p>\n

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