{"id":40389,"date":"2025-05-18T02:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T02:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/40389\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T02:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T02:42:09","slug":"brooklyn-nets-jersey-history-no-14-darius-morris-2014-15-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/40389\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Nets jersey history No. 14 &#8211; Darius Morris (2014-15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brooklyn Nets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brooklyn 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 &#8220;New Jersey Americans&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, that league has been absorbed by the NBA with the team that would later become the New York\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nets<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:New Jersey Nets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">New 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<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the players who played for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nets<\/a>\u00a0over the decades wearing those 52 different jersey numbers,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nets<\/a>\u00a0Wire is covering the entire history of the franchise&#8217;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<p><img alt=\"Feb 23, 2015; Denver, CO, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Darius Morris (14) shoots the ball during the first half against the Denver Nuggets at Pepsi Center. Mandatory Credit: Chris Humphreys-USA TODAY Sports\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"653\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1747536129_933_e7f8d4c111fa3f565eb79a49a81904af.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Feb 23, 2015; Denver, CO, USA; Brooklyn Nets guard Darius Morris (14) shoots the ball during the first half against the Denver Nuggets at Pepsi Center. Mandatory Credit: Chris Humphreys-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n<p>The first of those players wearing No. 14 played in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brooklyn Nets;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> era, guard alum Darius Morris. After ending his college career at Michigan, Morris was picked up with the 41st overall selection of the 2011 NBA draft by the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Lakers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles, California native would play the first two seasons of his pro career with the Lakers. He would also have stints with the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia 76ers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-clippers\/12\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Clippers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Clippers<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/memphis-grizzlies\/29\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Memphis Grizzlies;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> before he would sign with Brooklyn in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>His stay with the team would span part of a single season, his last at the NBA level. During his time suiting up for the Nets, Morris wore only jersey No. 14 and put up 2.2 points and 1.3 assists per game.<\/p>\n<p>All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/netswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/nets\/2025\/05\/17\/nets-jersey-history-no-14-darius-morris-2014-15\/83557593007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nets jersey history No. 14 - Darius Morris (2014-15);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nets jersey history No. 14 &#8211; Darius Morris (2014-15)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Brooklyn Nets\u00a0have 52 jersey numbers worn by over 600 different players over the course of their history since&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[4211,7,670,247,3803,11553,4466,4206,251,135,150,177,6,671,207],"class_list":{"0":"post-40389","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-american-basketball-association","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-nets","12":"tag-brooklynnets","13":"tag-darius-morris","14":"tag-jersey-history","15":"tag-jersey-numbers","16":"tag-los-angeles","17":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","18":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","19":"tag-memphis-grizzlies","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-nets","22":"tag-philadelphia-76ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114526535398408541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}