1975-76 New York Nets ABA Game-Worn Warm Up Jacket

This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 3/24/2022

Presented is an impressive artifact from the final year of National Basketball Association play, a handsome game-worn warm up jacket that bedazzles even without any direct attribution to a player from the defunct league that sent several of its more prosperous teams – including the Nets – to be absorbed into the NBA after 1976. The white-knit jacket has the dentist collar and four-snap button front, with 10-inch red side flares (vertical triangle cut). The chenille-stitched “NY Nets” circular logo patch appears on the left chest and vertical arch royal-blue tackle twill “Nets” is in large format on the back. The No. 4 circular black patch noting the passing of Wendell Ladner is present, a two-time ABA All-Star who had died in a plane crash in June of 1975. This is a beautiful, intact piece from the league’s final season, with some minor staining on the lower-edge tail, its significance only enhanced by the inclusion of the commemorative Ladner patch.