Brooklyn Nets jersey history No. 50 - Reggie Slater (2001)
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 fifth of seven people to wear the No. 50 jersey, forward alum Reggie Slater. After ending his college career at Wyoming, Slater went unselected in the 1992 NBA Draft, playing in other leagues until he signed with the Denver Nuggets in 1994.
The Houston, Texas native played the first season of his pro career with Denver. He also played for the Portland Trail Blazers, Nuggets again, Dallas Mavericks, Toronto Raptors, in another league, and for the Minnesota Timberwolves before he signed with the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets in 2001, and remained on the team for a few weeks before he was cut in November. During his time suiting up for the Nets, Slater wore only jersey No.
50 and put up 1. 3 points per game. All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
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