Brooklyn Nets Milestones

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How the Brooklyn Nets franchise timeline works

This deck tracks the Nets through their biggest franchise moments, ordered by the year each one took place. Each card gives you the moment plus a line of detail beneath it. You begin with one card already placed and dated. Read the next one, decide whether it came before, after or between what's down, and drop it in. Guess well and the year appears; guess badly and the card goes where it belongs anyway, taking one of three lives with it.

Few teams have moved around as much as this one, and the deck follows it through more than one home and more than one league. That makes the location in a description a useful clue, though never a complete answer. The trade cards are the real danger: the franchise has swung several big deals for stars, and they are easy to stack in the wrong order. Expect the recent era to feel crowded.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

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Here are 26 of the 26 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Founded as the New Jersey Americans An original member of the brand-new American Basketball Association
Renamed the New York Nets Moved to Long Island and took a name rhyming with the crosstown Mets
Signed Rick Barry The scoring star jumped in to headline the young ABA club
Reached first ABA Finals Lost the championship series to the Indiana Pacers
Acquired Julius Erving Traded with the Virginia Squires for the high-flying 'Dr. J'
Won first ABA championship Erving led a Finals win over the Utah Stars
Won second ABA title as the leagues merged Beat Denver for a final ABA crown, then joined the NBA in the merger
Moved to New Jersey Left New York and became the Nets of the Garden State
Drafted Buck Williams Landed the future Rookie of the Year third overall
Upset the defending-champion 76ers Stunned Philadelphia in a first-round playoff shocker
Drafted Derrick Coleman first overall Took the Syracuse forward with the top pick
Drafted Kenny Anderson Grabbed the Georgia Tech point guard second overall
Drazen Petrovic killed in a car crash The rising shooting-guard star died in Germany that summer
Drafted Kerry Kittles Selected the Villanova guard eighth overall
Traded for Jason Kidd Swapped Stephon Marbury for the All-Star point guard
Reached first NBA Finals Kidd led a run that ended against Shaq and Kobe's Lakers
Returned to the NBA Finals Lost a second straight Finals, this time to San Antonio
Traded for Vince Carter Brought in the high-flyer from Toronto in a midseason deal
Traded Jason Kidd and drafted Brook Lopez Sent Kidd to Dallas and grabbed the Stanford center tenth overall
Mikhail Prokhorov bought the team A Russian billionaire took majority ownership and promised a title
Moved to Brooklyn as Barclays Center opened Relaunched under a black-and-white identity in a new borough arena
Traded for Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce Sent a haul of picks to Boston for its aging veteran core
Signed Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving Landed two superstar free agents in one summer
Traded for James Harden Formed a superstar trio by dealing for the Houston guard
Traded James Harden for Ben Simmons Broke up the Big Three by sending Harden to Philadelphia
Traded Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving Dealt both stars away around the trade deadline to reset