Brooklyn Nets jersey history No. 0 – Orlando Woolridge

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. The second of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 0, which has has had a total of 18 players wear the number in the history of the team. The first of those players wearing No. 0 in New Jersey small forward alum Orlando Woolridge.

After playing his collegiate ball with the University of Notre Dame, Woolridge was picked up with the sixth overall pick of the 1981 NBA draft by the Chicago Bulls. He would play the first five seasons of his NBA career there before he would sign with the Nets as a free agent in 1986.

The Bernice, Louisiana, native would play two seasons for New Jersey before he would leave to sign with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1988.

During his time suiting up for the Nets, Woolridge put up an average of 19.8 points, 4.9 rebounds, 3.5 assists, and 1.5 steals per game.

This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: Nets jersey history No. 0 – Orlando Woolridge