Tim Bassett, a power forward for the New York Nets and New Jersey Nets — forerunners to the present-day Brooklyn Nets that bridged the franchise’s ABA and NBA years — has passed away at the age of 67.
Bassett played for the New York Nets in their final ABA season, 1975-76, and for three full seasons and part of another with the Nets on both Long Island and in New Jersey from 1976-79.
He was a physical role player and a presence on the inside at 6-foot-8 and 225 pounds — bulky for that era — and played three seasons in the ABA and four in the NBA before spending his final two professional seasons in Italy.