Brooklyn Nets jersey history No. 22 – Dexter Westbrook (1967)
The Brooklyn Nets have 52 jersey issues worn by more than 600 different players during their history since the franchise was founded in 1967 as a founding member of the American Basketball Association (ABA), when the team was known as the name of "New Jersey Americans".
Since then, this league has been absorbed by the NBA with the team which would later become the New York Nets and the New Jersey Nets before settling on the name of which they are known today, bringing with them their rich player and their story as a jersey in the League of today.
To commemorate the players who played for the nets over the decades bearing these 52 different jersey issues, Nets Wire covers the whole history of the franchise jersey numbers and the players who wore them from the team’s foundation. The 23 of these 52 different numbers was Jersey n ° 22, which had a total of 31 players who bear the number of the history of the team.
The second of the players carrying the n ° 22 played in the era (then) New Jersey Americans (now, Brooklyn Nets), the former striker Dexter Westbrook. After having ended his university career in Providence, Westbrook was recovered with the 44th overall selection of the 1967 NBA recovery by Baltimore (deceased) (deceased).
The native of Mount Vernon, in New York, rather signed with the Americans of the ABA and played seven games for the team before leaving the team to play for the (deceased) Pittsburgh Pipers.
During his time that was accompanied by Americans, Westbrook only wore the n ° 22 jersey and collected 4.4 points and 1.3 rebounds per game.
All statistics and data gracked from the basketball reference.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets Jersey History No. 22 – Dexter Westbrook (1967)
