During his time suiting up for the Nets, Theus wore only jersey No. 24 and put up 18.6 points, 2.8 rebounds, 4.7 steals, and 1.0 steals 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 25th of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 24, which has has had a total of 20 players wear the number in the history of the team.
The seventh of those players wearing No. 24 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, guard alum Reggie Theus. After ending his college career at UNLV, Theus was picked up with the ninth overall selection of the 1978 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls.
The Inglewood, California native would play parts of the first six seasons of his pro career with the Bulls. He also played for the (then) Kansas City (now, Sacramento) Kings through their move to Sacramento, the Atlanta Hawks, and Orlando Magic before he was dealt to New Jersey for the final season of his NBA career in 1990.
During his time suiting up for the Nets, Theus wore only jersey No. 24 and put up 18.6 points, 2.8 rebounds, 4.7 steals, and 1.0 steals per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets jersey history No. 24 - Reggie Theus (1990-91)
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