23 Facts About Brooklyn Nets

Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

The Brooklyn Nets compete in the National Basketball Association as a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference.

In 1976, the ABA merged with the NBA, and the Brooklyn Nets were absorbed into the NBA along with three other ABA teams, all of whom remain in the league to this day.

Since moving to Brooklyn, the Nets have qualified for the playoffs on seven occasions, including trips to the Conference Semifinals in 2014 and 2021.

Brooklyn Nets were founded in 1967 and initially played in Teaneck, New Jersey, as the New Jersey Americans.

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Unlike the other three ABA teams entering the NBA, who played in cities without any NBA presence, the Brooklyn Nets were required by the NBA to pay an "encroachment fee" of $4.

Knicks–Nets rivalry has historically been a geographical one, with the Knicks playing in Madison Square Garden in the New York City borough of Manhattan, while the Nets played in the suburban area of Long Island and in New Jersey, and since 2012 have been playing at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.

The Raptors and Brooklyn Nets faced each other in the 2020 NBA playoffs in the first round, with Toronto winning the series four games to none.

Brooklyn Nets carried the "Stars and Stripes" uniform to New Jersey in 1977.

The Brooklyn Nets have had three different versions of the "Statement" uniform.

In 2022, the Brooklyn Nets again changed its "Statement" uniform, this time with a black base, black letters with silver trim, and a subtle greyscale herringbone striping with three black stars on the left.

That year the Brooklyn Nets were beginning their first season since making the transition to the Barclays Center from the Prudential Center .

At the time, the Brooklyn Nets were seen as an expansion team by the league and fans alike.

In 2016, the Brooklyn Nets hired Sean Marks as their general manager, who became an immediate supporter of the group.

Original owner of the Nets franchise was trucking magnate Arthur J Brown, who founded the team in 1967.

The next year the group signed an agreement with New York Yankees owner George Steinbrenner to form YankeeBrooklyn Nets, a holding company that owned the two teams, and later the New Jersey Devils, and increase leverage in future broadcast contracts by negotiating together.

YankeeBrooklyn Nets failed in its attempts to secure a deal with Newark to construct a new arena in the city.

Ratner had purchased the team with the intent of moving it to a new arena in Brooklyn Nets, which was to be a centerpiece of the large-scale Atlantic Yards development.

Brooklyn Nets relinquished his stake after registering as a sports agent with his new agency Roc Nation Sports, to avert any potential conflicts of interest.

Brooklyn Nets's shares were eventually sold to singer, rapper, actor and entrepreneur Will Pan, making Pan the first American of Taiwanese descent to own a U S professional sports franchise.

Brooklyn Nets hold the draft rights to the following unsigned draft picks who have been playing outside the NBA.

Current flagship radio station of the Brooklyn Nets is WFAN, which took over the radio rights to the Brooklyn Nets after losing their basketball contract with the Knicks .

Eagle became the lead television voice for the team in 1995 after serving as the team's radio voice for one year, while Albert joined the Brooklyn Nets following his firing by MSG Network in 2005 after four decades as the lead voice of the New York Knicks.