Brooklyn Nets jersey history No. 11 - Jim Ard (1970-73)

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 13th of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 11 which has has had a total of 19 players wear the number in the history of the team.

The first of those players wearing No. 11 played in the (then) New York (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, big man alum Jim Ard. After ending his college career at Cincinnati, Ard was picked up with the sixth overall selection of the 1970 NBA draft by the Seattle SuperSonics.

The Harvey, Illinois native instead joined the Nets, playing there for the first 3 seasons of his pro career. That ended when he he was dealt to the (defunct) Memphis Tams in 1973.

During his time suiting up for the Nets, Ard wore only jersey Nos. 12 and 11 and put up 5.2 points and 4.6 rebounds per game.

This article originally appeared on Nets Wire: Nets jersey history No. 11 - Jim Ard (1970-73)

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