Brooklyn Nets jersey history No. 22 - Ollie Taylor (1971-73)

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 23rd of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 22, which has has had a total of 31 players wear the number in the history of the team.

The sixth of those players wearing No. 22 played in the (then) New York (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, guard alum Ollie Taylor. After ending his college career at Houston, Taylor was picked up with the 189th overall selection (there were many more rounds in that era of the draft) of the 1970 NBA Draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers.

The New Yorker instead signed with the ABA's New York for the first two seasons of his pro career for his first stint with the team. That ended when he was selected by the (defunct) San Diego Conquistadors in the 1972 ABA expansion draft, and saw him return to New York a season later for eight more games, coming to an end when he was cut in 1973.

During his time suiting up for the Nets, Taylor wore only jersey Nos. 20 and 22 and put up 8.4 points, 3.8 rebounds, and 1.8 assists per game.

All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.

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