NetsDaily · Sep 11, 2017
50 years on, Nets celebrate their birth
On October 23, your Brooklyn/New Jersey/New York Nets/Americans will celebrate 50 years of professional basketball. On October 23, 1967, the New Jersey Americans took the court for the first time against the Pittsburgh Pipers, opening night of the inaugural season of the American Basketball Association.
And the anniversary celebrations have begun. On a recent afternoon, six of the 17 players who took to the court that night were re-united, along with their official scorer, Herb Turetzky, and announcer, Spencer Ross, at Michael Jordan’s Steakhouse in Grand Central Terminal.
As Tom Dowd of the Nets website notes, “some of them having not seen one another since their last game together.”