{"id":49360,"date":"2025-05-22T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/49360\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T08:17:08","slug":"nets-jersey-history-no-14-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/49360\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets jersey history No. 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nets<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">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>To commemorate the players who played for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Nets<\/a>\u00a0over the decades wearing those 52 different jersey numbers,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">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>The 25th of those players wearing No. 14 played in the\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" data-autotag=\"02f2623f-cb52-4847-8284-ff461d726c25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brooklyn Nets<\/a> era, big man alum Norvel Pelle. After starting his pro career in the G League, Pelle would go unselected in the 2014 NBA draft and play overseas and in the G League until he signed with the Philadelphia 76ers in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The St. John&#8217;s, Antigua and Barbuda native would play the first seasons of his pro career with the Sixers before he&#8217;d sign with Brooklyn in 2021. His stay with the team would span just three games, ending when he signed with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/sacramento-kings\/23\/\" data-autotag=\"3167e433-c189-4ca5-b7ab-4c9e41dbb11b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sacramento Kings<\/a> that same season.<\/p>\n<p>During his time suiting up for the Nets, Pelle wore only jersey No. 14 and put up 2.0 points, 2.3 rebounds, and a block per game.<\/p>\n<p>All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.<\/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":49361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[6700,6079,11280,7,670,247,3803,60,1539,3045,1836,6699,4056,7683,70,85,6,671,67,61,134,132,986,477,276,275,286,66,6704,7684,83,277,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-49360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-apparel","9":"tag-athletic","10":"tag-athletic-apparel","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-brooklyn","13":"tag-brooklyn-nets","14":"tag-brooklynnets","15":"tag-content","16":"tag-evergreen","17":"tag-evergreen-content","18":"tag-fan","19":"tag-gear","20":"tag-kings","21":"tag-memorabilia","22":"tag-national","23":"tag-national-sports","24":"tag-nba","25":"tag-nets","26":"tag-news","27":"tag-overall","28":"tag-overall-positive","29":"tag-positive","30":"tag-sacramento","31":"tag-sacramento-kings","32":"tag-scores","33":"tag-sport","34":"tag-sport-scores-u0026-statistics","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-sports-fan-gear-u0026-apparel","37":"tag-sports-memorabilia","38":"tag-sports-news","39":"tag-statistics","40":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114550502002974977","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49360","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=49360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}