{"id":130830,"date":"2026-02-12T02:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130830\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T02:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:36:07","slug":"nets-jersey-history-no-42-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/130830\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets jersey history No. 42"},"content":{"rendered":"

Feb. 11, 2026, 9:00 p.m. ET<\/p>\n

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

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.<\/p>\n

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And for today’s article, we will continue with the 12th of 14 people to wear the No. 42 jersey, big man alum Evan Eschmeyer. After ending his college career at Northwestern, Eschmeyer was picked up with the 34th overall selection of the 1999 NBA Draft by the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The New Knoxville, Ohio native played the first two seasons of his pro career with New Jersey, coming to an end when he signed with the Dallas Mavericks<\/a> in 2001.<\/p>\n

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During his time suiting up for the Nets, Eschmeyer wore only jersey Nos. 00 and 42, and put up 3.3 points and 4.5 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 11, 2026, 9:00 p.m. ET The\u00a0Brooklyn Nets\u00a0have 52 jersey numbers worn by over 600 different players over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[679,98,100,99,9,24,63,7202,7203,4503,7204,19021,23673,950,4500,1328,3697,16791,16792,949,682],"class_list":["post-130830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-accessfree","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sstssportsnbanets","tag-sstsnnets","tag-tagbasketball","tag-tagbrooklyn-nets","tag-tagdallas-mavericks","tag-tagevergreen-content","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnba","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","tag-tagsports-fan-gear-apparel","tag-tagsports-memorabilia","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}