This is a list of seasons completed by the
Brooklyn Nets
The Brooklyn Nets are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The Nets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference. The t ...
professional
basketball
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team. The Nets were founded as the New Jersey Americans in 1967, a charter franchise of the
American Basketball Association
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(ABA). A year later, the club
relocated to
Long Island, New York
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, and were renamed as the New York Nets. There, behind the play of
Hall of Famer
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Julius Erving
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, the team won its only two
ABA championships: in 1974 and 1976. After the 1975–76 season, the ABA
merged
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with the
National Basketball Association
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(NBA), and the Nets were one of four franchises that joined the NBA. After their first season in the NBA, the team moved back to
New Jersey
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and was renamed as the New Jersey Nets.
In the NBA, the Nets have experienced only one period of sustained success, from the
2001–02 season to the
2006–07 season, when led by
Jason Kidd
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they played in the postseason every year and twice reached the NBA Finals, but lost to
Shaquille O'Neal
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-led
Los Angeles Lakers
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in
2002
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and then to
Tim Duncan
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-led
San Antonio Spurs
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in
2003
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. After 35 seasons in New Jersey, owner
Mikhail Prokhorov
Mikhail Dmitrievich Prokhorov ( rus, Михаил Дмитриевич Прохоров, p=mʲɪxɐˈil ˈdmʲitrʲɪjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈproxərəf; born 3 May 1965) is a Russian-Israeli oligarch, politician, and former owner of the Brooklyn Nets. I ...
moved the team to the New York City
borough of
Brooklyn to become the Brooklyn Nets.
Seasons
All-time records
As of the end of the 2021–22 season
Notes
References
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seasons
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