{"id":194927,"date":"2026-04-13T03:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194927\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T03:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T03:34:10","slug":"nets-jersey-history-no-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/194927\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets jersey history No. 54"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 12, 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

\"CHICAGO,<\/p>\n

And for today’s article, we will continue with the third of six people to wear the No. 54 jersey, big man alum Jack Haley. After ending his college career at UCLA, Haley was picked up with the 79th overall selection of the 1987 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls.<\/p>\n

The Long Beach, California native played parts of the first two seasons of his pro career with Chicago, coming to an end when he was cut then claimed by the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets in 1989 for his first stint with the team. After that, he played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Bulls again, and the San Antonio Spurs before returning to New Jersey for the final two seasons of his career.<\/p>\n

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During his time suiting up for the Nets, Haley wore only jersey Nos. 44 and 54 and put up 4.9 points and 4.0 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 12, 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":34377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[679,98,100,99,9,24,63,7202,7203,26030,4503,23673,950,4500,1328,3697,16791,16792,949,682],"class_list":{"0":"post-194927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","11":"tag-brooklyn-news","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-sstssportsnbanets","16":"tag-sstsnnets","17":"tag-tagathletic-apparel","18":"tag-tagbasketball","19":"tag-tagevergreen-content","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnba","22":"tag-tagoverall-positive","23":"tag-tagsport-scores-statistics","24":"tag-tagsports-fan-gear-apparel","25":"tag-tagsports-memorabilia","26":"tag-tagsports-news","27":"tag-typestory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194927","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=194927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}