Brooklyn Nets jersey history No. 21 - Eric Floyd (1982-83)
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. The 22nd of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 21, which has has had a total of 26 players wear the number in the history of the team.
The eighth of those players wearing No. 21 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, guard alum Eric Floyd. After ending his college career at Georgetown, Floyd was picked up with the 13th overall selection of the 1982 NBA Draft by the Nets.
It was the first of two stints with New Jersey, with the Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets, and San Antonio Spurs in between the start of his second stint in 1994, his last in the NBA.
During his time suiting up for the Nets, Floyd wore only jersey Nos. 21 and 12 and put up 4.6 points and 2.1 rebounds per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
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