{"id":695251,"date":"2026-04-03T04:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695251\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T04:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T04:04:12","slug":"nets-jersey-history-no-50-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/695251\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets jersey history No. 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 2, 2026, 9:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">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 class=\"gnt_ar_b_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\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Nets<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/brooklyn-nets\/17\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">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 class=\"gnt_ar_b_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\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">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\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">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.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:440px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/89325622007-usatsi-5265468.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Apr 11; Newark, NJ, USA; Charlotte Bobcats guard Gerald Henderson (15) takes a shot over New Jersey Nets center Brook Lopez (11) and New Jersey Nets center Dan Gadzuric (50) during the second half at the Prudential Center. The Bobcats defeated the Nets 105-103. Mandatory Credit: Ed Mulholland-USA TODAY Sports\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">And for today&#8217;s article, we will continue with the seventh of seven people to wear the No. 50 jersey, big man alum Dan Gadzuric. After ending his college career at UCLA, Gadzuric was picked up with the 34th overall selection of the 2002 NBA Draft by the Milwaukee Bucks<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Den Haag, Netherlands native played the first eight seasons of his pro career with Milwaukee. He also played for the Golden State Warriors before he was dealt to the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets in 2011. His stay with the team lasted until he signed with the New York Knicks in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:6|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">During his time suiting up for the Nets, Gadzuric wore only jersey No. 50 and put up 2.8 points and 3.5 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 2, 2026, 9:00 p.m. ET The\u00a0Brooklyn Nets\u00a0have 52 jersey numbers worn by over 600 different players over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[72400,7,670,247,3803,6,671,72503,72504,72404,72444,72422,72405,72439,72744,72745,72406,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-695251","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn-nets","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-brooklyn","11":"tag-brooklyn-nets","12":"tag-brooklynnets","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nets","15":"tag-sstssportsnbanets","16":"tag-sstsnnets","17":"tag-tagbasketball","18":"tag-tagnational-sports","19":"tag-tagnba","20":"tag-tagoverall-positive","21":"tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","22":"tag-tagsports-fan-gear-apparel","23":"tag-tagsports-memorabilia","24":"tag-tagsports-news","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116338797345592864","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695251","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=695251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}