Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishThe 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 14th of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 12 which has has had a total of 15 players wear the number in the history of the team.The eighth of those players wearing No. 12 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, guard alum Rick Carlisle. After ending his college career at Virginia, Carlisle was picked up with the 70th overall selection (there were many more rounds in that era of the draft) of the 1984 NBA draft by the Boston Celtics.The Ogdensburg, New York native would play the first 3 seasons of his pro career with the Celtics, and also played for the New York Knicks before signing with New Jersey in 1989 for what would be the last season of his NBA career as a player.During his time suiting up for the Nets, Carlisle wore only jersey No. 12 and put up 1.0 assists per game.
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