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Brooklyn Nets jersey history No. 22 - Roger Phegley (1980-81)
The Brooklyn Nets have 52 jersey numbers worn by over 600 different players over the course of their history since the franchise was founded in 1967 as a charter member of the American Basketball Association (ABA), when the team was known as the "New Jersey Americans". Since then, that league has been absorbed by the NBA with the team that would later become the New York Nets and New Jersey Nets before settling on the name by which they are known today, bringing their rich player and jersey history with them to the league of today. To commemorate the players who played for the Nets over the decades wearing those 52 different jersey numbers, Nets Wire is covering the entire history of the franchise's jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team. The 23rd of those 52 different numbers is jersey No. 22, which has has had a total of 31 players wear the number in the history of the team. The 12th of those players wearing No. 22 played in the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets era, guard alum Roger Phegley. After ending his college career at Bradley, Phegley was picked up with the 14th overall selection of the 1978 NBA Draft by the (then) Washington Bullets (now, Wizards). The East Peoria, Illinois would play parts of the first two seasons of his pro career with the Bullets before he was dealt to New Jersey in 1980. His stay with the team would span just 28 games before he'd be traded again, this time to the Cleveland Cavaliers in 1981. During his time suiting up for the Nets, Phegley wore only jersey No. 22 and put up 11.7 points, 2.5 rebounds, and 1.1 assists per game. All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
CNET
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- CNET
Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for Aug. 20 #331
Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Today's Connections: Sports Edition leans heavy on West Coast teams, so hope you know those! Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times, will continue to publish it. It doesn't show up in the NYT Games app but now appears in The Athletic's own app. Or you can continue to play it free online. Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta Hints for today's Connections: Sports Edition groups Here are four hints for the groupings in today's Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group. Yellow group hint: Think Hah-vahd. Green group hint: Fore! Blue group hint: City by the Bay. Purple group hint: Space Needle city. Answers for today's Connections: Sports Edition groups Yellow group: Ivy League team nicknames. Green group: Places at a golf course. Blue group: 49ers Hall of Famers. Purple group: Things in Mariners logos. Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words What are today's Connections: Sports Edition answers? The completed NYT Connections: Sports Edition for Aug. 20, 2025. NYT/Screenshot by CNET The yellow words in today's Connections The theme is Ivy League team nicknames. The four answers are Big Green, Big Red, Crimson and Lions. The green words in today's Connections The theme is places at a golf course. The four answers are cart path, clubhouse, pro shop and range. The blue words in today's Connections The theme is 49ers Hall of Famers. The four answers are Lott, Montana, Rice and Young. The purple words in today's Connections The theme is things in Mariners logos. The four answers are baseball, compass rose, S and trident.
Associated Press
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- Associated Press
Questions loom over rest of Browns quarterback room after Flacco named the Week 1 starter
BEREA, Ohio (AP) — Kevin Stefanski resolved the biggest storyline of the Cleveland Browns training camp by naming Joe Flacco the starting quarterback on Monday. But as is the case with the quarterback position in Brownstown, naming a starter for the Week 1 opener against the Cincinnati Bengals set off a new round of questions. The one at the top of everyone's mind is how long Flacco thinks he can hang on to the job? Of the 10 quarterbacks who have started a game for the Browns since they traded Baker Mayfield in 2022, Flacco is tied for fifth with five starts in 2023, when he went 4-1 and directed Cleveland to its third playoff berth since returning to the league in 1999. 'Well, we all know how that works. I mean, that's everybody in the league, but it's not really my job to look at it in that way. It's just to go out there and play my game. Kind of like I've been doing all training camp and not worrying about all that stuff, just going out there, playing my game and being the best I can,' Flacco said Tuesday. 'I felt like I was having a good camp with the reps that I was given, and that's all you can do.' Flacco would also become the 11th different quarterback in league history to start a Week 1 game when they were at least 40 years old. Even though Flacco was the only Browns quarterback who has not missed time during training camp because of an injury, Stefanski said the decision went beyond what has transpired for the last month. 'I understand with the injuries, how that may look, that's really not the case here,' he said. 'Joe performed really well, both in practice, in the joint practices, in the meeting room, you name it. What he's able to bring to the football team, he's earned that role.' Stefanski has not determined if Kenny Pickett, Dillon Gabriel or Shedeur Sanders will be Flacco's backup. General manager Andrew Berry also has one week to determine if the team will indeed keep four quarterbacks on the roster. According to Sportradar, that has happened only five times since 2000. Pickett continues to come back from a hamstring strain but did get some snaps in 11-on-11 drills on Tuesday. Sanders was limited due to an oblique injury. Flacco and the starters will see action in Saturday's preseason finale against the Los Angeles Rams, with the amount of playtime left to be determined. 'I think we all feel pretty good. You only get a certain amount of reps out there, and I think we've made the most of it, and I think that's every team in the league to a certain extent,' Flacco said. 'I think the good thing about this week is, we kind of get to put ourselves through a little bit of a game plan and simulate what we would be doing during the year. I think that's going to give everybody that extra confidence to take that next step.' ___ AP NFL:
