{"id":161175,"date":"2026-03-12T07:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161175\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:02:07","slug":"nets-jersey-history-no-44-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/161175\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets jersey history No. 44"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 11, 2026, 10:00 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 20th of 21 people to wear the No. 44 jersey, forward alum Dante Cunningham. After ending his college career at Villanova, Cunningham was picked up with the 33rd overall selection of the 2009 NBA Draft by the Portland Trail Blazers.<\/p>\n

The Clinton, Maryland native played parts of the first two seasons of his pro career with Portland. He also played for the Charlotte Hornets<\/a>, Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>, Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a>, and New Orleans Pelicans<\/a> before he was dealt to the Brooklyn Nets<\/a> in 2019. His stay with the team lasted until he was traded to the San Antonio Spurs that offseason.<\/p>\n

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During his time suiting up for the Nets, Cunningham wore only jersey No. 44 and put up 7.5 points, 4.8 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game,<\/p>\n

All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 11, 2026, 10:00 p.m. ET The\u00a0Brooklyn Nets\u00a0have 52 jersey numbers worn by over 600 different players over…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[679,98,100,99,9,24,63,7202,7203,4503,7204,10872,23673,44758,16801,950,4500,16368,1328,3697,16791,16792,949,682],"class_list":["post-161175","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-tagcharlotte-hornets","tag-tagevergreen-content","tag-tagmemphis-grizzlies","tag-tagminnesota-timberwolves","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnba","tag-tagnew-orleans-pelicans","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\/161175","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=161175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}