During his time suiting up for the Nets, Branch wore only jersey No. 21 and put up 6.7 points and 2.4 rebounds per game.
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 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 ninth of those players wearing No. 21 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, forward alum Adrian Branch. After ending his college career at Maryland, was picked up with the 46th overall selection of the 1985 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls.
The Washington, District of Columbia native instead spent his first pro season in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA -- that era's version of the G League), signing with the Los Angeles Lakers the following season. At the end of that campaign, he had his contract sold to New Jersey, where he played for a single season until he was cut in 1987.
During his time suiting up for the Nets, Branch wore only jersey No. 21 and put up 6.7 points and 2.4 rebounds per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets jersey history No. 21 - Adrian Branch (1987)
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