Brooklyn Nets jersey history No. 45 - Mikki Moore (2003-04)
The Brooklyn Nets have 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". Since then, that league has been absorbed by the NBA with the team that would later become the New York Nets and New Jersey Nets before settling on the name by which they are known today, bringing their rich player and jersey history with them to the league of today. To commemorate the players who played for the Nets over the decades wearing those 52 different jersey numbers, Nets Wire is covering the entire history of the franchise's jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team.
And for today's article, we will continue with the 10th of 13 people to wear the No. 45 jersey, big man alum Mikki Moore. After ending his college career at Nebraska, Moore would go unselected in the 1997 NBA Draft, instead playing in the D-League (as the G League was then known as) and abroad until he signed with the Detroit Pistons in 1999.
The Orangeburg, South Carolina native played the first four seasons of his NBA career with the Pistons. He also played for the Boston Celtics, and Atlanta Hawks before he signed with the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets in 2003 for his first stint with the team that lasted until he was cut in 2004. In between, he played for the Utah Jazz, Los Angeles Clippers, and Seattle SuperSonics.
Dealt by the latter back to New Jersey in 2006, that ended when he signed with the Sacramento Kings in 2007. During his time suiting up for the Nets, Moore wore only jersey No. 45 and put up 9.
8 points and 5. 1 rebounds per game. All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.