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 first of those players wearing No. 24 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, forward alum Derrick Gervin. After ending his college career at Texas – San Antonio, Gervin was picked up with the 90th overall selection (there were many more rounds in that era of the draft) of the 1985 NBA Draft by the Philadelphia 76ers.

The Detroit, Michigan native would play the first seasons of his pro career abroad and in other domestic leagues, signing with New Jersey for the only two seasons of his NBA career in 1990.

During his time suiting up for the Nets, Gervin wore only jersey Nos. 24 and 30 and put up 8.8 points and 2.3 rebounds per game.

All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.

This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets jersey history No. 24 – Derrick Gervin (1990-91)