Michael Ray Richardson was traded from the Golden State Warriors late in the 1982/83 Season and the then two time All Star would put up solid stats for his new team.  Richardson would lead the Nets in 1984 to their first playoff series win (over the Philadelphia 76ers) in the NBA and his 1984/85 season would see him put up a career high 20.1 Points per Game and he would win the Steals Title with a 3.0 Average.  That would be his highlight year as the next year he would suffer the tragedy of excess.

So many players made their way to the Nets with lofty expectations and Deron Williams was pegged by some to be the next coming of Jason Kidd.  That didn’t happen but D-Will did show Nets fans on occasion that he was capable of being the best Point Guard in the NBA.

Chris Morris played the first seven seasons of his career in the National Basketball Association with the New Jersey Nets after playing for Auburn where he was a two-time First Team SEC Selection.  Morris was drafted fourth overall in 1988 where the Small Forward started nearly 80 percent of the games he played in for the Nets.  Averaging a shade under 30 Minutes per Game, Morris would showoff dunking skills and he had three seasons where he averaged 14 Points per Game.  Morris would show above average skills defensively and he was 18^th in Steals per Game in 1990/91 and 12^th in 1992/93. 

A former Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year at Duke, Mike Gminski was drafted 7^th overall in 1980 by the New Jersey Nets.  The “Big G” was used off the bench in the first four seasons but would take over the starting Center role for the team in the 1984/85 campaign.  Gminski would be in the top 20 in Offensive Rebounds (if we count the season he was traded midway to Philadelphia) as a Net and he was not a bad scorer.  In his last three seasons with the Nets he averaged over 16 Points per Game and for a Center he was a good free throw shooter where he had three seasons of a Free Throw Percentage over .840.