{"id":172976,"date":"2026-03-24T04:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172976\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T04:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T04:33:14","slug":"nets-jersey-history-no-45-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172976\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets jersey history No. 45"},"content":{"rendered":"

March 23, 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 11th of 13 people to wear the No. 45 jersey, forward alum Gerald Wallace. After ending his college career at Alabama, Wallace was picked up with the 25th overall selection of the 2001 NBA Draft by the Sacramento Kings.<\/p>\n

The Sylacauga, Alabama native played the first three seasons of his pro career with Sacramento. He also played for the Charlotte Hornets and Portland Trail Blazers before he was dealt to the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets in 2012. His stay with the team lasted until he was dealt to the Boston Celtics in 2013.<\/p>\n

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During his time suiting up for the Nets, Wallace wore only jersey No. 45 and put up 9.1 points, 5.0 rebounds, 2.7 assists, and 1.4 steals per game.<\/p>\n

All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"March 23, 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":172977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[679,98,100,99,9,24,63,7202,7203,4503,23673,950,4500,1328,3697,16791,16792,949,682],"class_list":["post-172976","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-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\/172976","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=172976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}